Shucking Corporate Oysters-Kickstarting an Innersource Culture
summary
T-Mobile migrates to SaaS GitLab and flips the default reporter role so everyone gets read-only access, can fork, open issues and submit merge requests; that one-line change flips the default from closed to open. Legal and digital security are engaged to define rigorous opt-out criteria rather than grant blanket permission. Decisions and policies land as merge requests so discussion and onboarding happen publicly, a stealth community of allies forms across offices, and the change sticks because senior individual contributors supply political capital.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 1:25Resistance to change in corporations
- 2:29Choosing what to be passionate about
- 3:11T-Mobile’s nascent open-source program
- 3:54Adopting modern tooling with GitLab
- 5:15Default closed vs default open culture
- 6:38Convincing legal and security teams
- 9:05Building popular support openly
- 11:08Key takeaways and leadership role
- 11:52Senior engineers must drive change
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