In today’s environment people are asked to innovate faster than ever before. The idea of digital transformation is no longer a novel concept. Even if you’ve never heard the term “InnerSource” to describe how teams build their software, you’ll probably still recognize many of the principles behind it. In this course, GitHub Foundations: Adopting an InnerSource Culture with GitHub, you’ll be introduced to InnerSource best practices backed by customer stories where InnerSource is powering code at the world’s most influential companies. First, you’ll build out a Git repository as an InnerSource toolkit with content and resources to guide you and your team, as well as your organization. Next, you’ll kickstart your InnerSource adoption which will lead to better communication, a larger contribution pool, and transparent and concise visibility into your projects for better metrics, outcomes and sustainability. Finally, you’ll explore how to implement these best practices to keep these large-scale open source projects successeful.By the end of this course, you’ll be able to harness the collective intelligence of your organization and build amazing proprietary software across industries, teams, and time zones.
Author Name: Aaron Stewart
Author Description:
Aaron is a program architect at GitHub with a focus area in third party content. As a Git and GitHub expert, he joined GitHub as a trainer to consult and train development teams from industry leading companies on Git, GitHub and to improve their collaboration and development workflows. With a training foundation, Aaron develops content and programs for professional services at GitHub for digital transformation and thought leadership. Prior to joining GitHub, Aaron was an integration engineer at … more

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• Why Companies Are Adopting InnerSource?
  40mins
• Applying InnerSource Practices
  41mins
• Customize a Checklist for Measuring Success
  18mins