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This patterns defines an existing problem in large corporations that are highly outsourced.
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Looks like an interesting pattern--thanks for submitting this.
One concern: it appears to focus more on the "how to do it" rather than the "how to win over internal critics and establish management buy-in" even though some of the forces are clearly in the second camp and probably need to be addressed.
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I would suggest combining the first two sentences:
Current outsourced environments in large corporations prevent those suppliers to work in an InnerSource way, with a greater transparency, collaboration, and sense of community.
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Suggest deleting comma after cultural change
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but the mother company --> but only with the mother company.
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Is this Managers fearing the loss of control? Or actual loss of control?
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Is it possible to give an example or mention of how this can be done?
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Is there, in this solution space, an aspect of a business case that might help drive the adoption of this approach? To fight against the Manager fear of loss of control and the thought that each silo might worry about working with their (internal) competitors?
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Perhaps a semicolon is needed after platform
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I think this was meant as a single sentence, i.e. no semicolon needed :)
Trying to rewrite this:
Code should be hosted in a collaborative platform (Version Control System) that every company and contractor is able to access and contribute to
We could possibly link to other patterns such as:
- https://github.com/InnerSourceCommons/InnerSourcePatterns/blob/main/patterns/1-initial/source-code-inventory.md
- https://github.com/InnerSourceCommons/InnerSourcePatterns/blob/main/patterns/2-structured/innersource-portal.md (here we should review how this pattern can be adapted, so that it is also usable by contractors)
I fixed the markdownlint complaints on you PR.
Sorry about all the notification emails that you received. That's just one way for us to try to keep the markdown in our patterns to some standard. Potentially a bit too strict (and with that annoying) at early stages of the content creation process.
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Great start on this new pattern @dicortazar!
The outsourcing topic has been addressed fairly little so far in our patterns, so it is great to get more of this content integrated.
General question:
Is this pattern exclusively about code-level collaboration between two different outsourcing companies? Or is it also between a single outsourcing company and the mother company?
I further recommend to pick fixed terms for the "mother company" and "outsourced company" early on in the pattern, and then stick to it throughout the rest of the pattern.
Again, great work! Hope you find the inline suggestions helpful.
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What do you mean by "environments"?
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We can call it context, situation, even ecosystems if you prefer :). The idea behind environment is that this includes many areas of the company, from legal to human resources or engineering teams. And the way outsourced companies are 'forced' to work is sometimes a blocker by itself.
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If we would change this to "outsourced projects" then this would change the meaning of what you are trying to say, right @dicortazar?
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We typically suggest to format the Context as bullet points as well, so that the readers can check one-by-one if this context also applies at their organization.
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Also what does "something goes wrong" mean?
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Can you elaborate on this point?
Are you saying that the contractors should contribute their changes in smaller increments, rather than a big bang?
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What do you mean by "internal outsourced companies"?
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Can you elaborate on what you mean here?
Might become easier to understand if you break this up into two sentences.
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"Train" sounds good. But how? What do they have to learn?
@dicortazar thank you again for sharing your experiences with us here.
As this pattern is only in maturity Initial, we should be able to get it merged pretty quickly, which would also make it easier to discover this pattern in our repo.
This PR as staled for some time now, so we are at risk of loosing it entirely.
Do you have time in the comings weeks to review and integrate the review comments?
As you have more than one PR in progress, if you want you can also let me know which one you want to focus on first.
This patterns defines an existing problem in large corporations that are highly outsourced.