We are People not Robots: An IBM InnerSource Story
summary
IBM consolidates 30 fragmented NLP stacks into a reusable AI platform called Watson Core, builds an InnerSource Program Office (ISPO) in 2022, and shifts ownership to IBM Research in 2023 — a path that helps seed watsonx at Think 2023. The program pairs a governance playbook, platform search and provisioning, badges and contributor cohorts, and events like Htoberfest with change management; results climb from ~200 members and 75 projects in 2019 to 10,000+ members and over 1,000 projects by 2025, with the core insight that the breakthrough is human, not merely technical.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and context
- 3:57InnerSource challenges and goals
- 8:53IBM InnerSource ecosystem pillars
- 15:16Community growth and enablement
- 20:32Events and scaling initiatives
- 23:20Culture and collaboration focus
- 25:49Conclusion and human-centered approach
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