A Practical Guide To Inner Sourcing Your IDP - Lian Li
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Claim: inner sourcing—treating the IDP like an open source project—moves developers from consumers to contributors and improves adoption. Uses the platform maturity model (CNCF), the orbit model for personas, and Tribal Leadership stages to diagnose culture. Case studies: a bureaucratic government org built a CI library nobody used while a focused pilot program succeeded; a large manufacturer improves docs and adds a capability catalog, yielding partial gains and converting one influential skeptic into an advocate.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:24Why platform engineering fails
- 3:11Developers as contributors
- 5:00Developer advocacy parallels
- 6:46Bureaucratic organization case
- 8:08Platform advocacy framework
- 8:49Platform maturity model
- 12:00Orbit model for adoption
- 15:51Tribal culture stages
- 19:02Culture first in platform adoption
- 19:44Applying advocacy framework
- 20:48Manufacturer case study
- 23:15Measuring platform improvements
- 24:21Inner sourcing goal
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