InnerSource survey questions - ShaneCurcuru/InnerSourceCommons GitHub Wiki

2016-09-21 Update: the 2016 survey is up and receiving answers with many of the questions below plus others from kjstol.

Help us brainstorm questions for a survey of channel participants. The intention is to have an anonymous survey to generate data that can be useful for checking on the state of corporate InnerSource programs

• rough size of your company
  • 0-1K, 1K-5K, 5K-10K, 10K-50K, 50K+?
• rough number of inner sourced projects in your company
• number of developers participating in inner sourcing
• (subjective) level of success
  • not successful, not very successful yet, too early to say, modestly successful, very successful, extremely successful
• benefits achieved
• number of years of the program
• platform(s) used for software configuration management
• platform(s) used for continuous integration
• platform(s) used for communication
• corporate culture assessment
• projections of the inner source trend in the company
  • declining, flat, improving, exponential growth, etc
• inner source challenges/problems still needing solutions
• inner source challenges/problems you've overcome
• biggest inner source lessons learned or advice you want to share
• Are you planning to attend the 2016 Inner Source Commons Fall Summit in Boston?
• What sessions would you like to see at the summit? It's okay to answer even if you're not able to attend.
• What outputs would you like to see come out of the summit? Specific questions to be answered?
• Any other thoughts you want to share with the rest of the community?