Project Management Advantages

Project Management in Inner Source has emerged as a very important and relevant concept in recent years. We’ve seen the emergence of lots of open source tools such as MySQL and OpenOffice which have been developed through the collaboration of many different developers all around the world. Project Management in inner source is vastly different to traditional software project management and it has its own unique benefits and drawbacks. Inner source project management can add huge value to an organisation undertaking a new project. “It leads to increased software reuse and higher software quality due to an increased availability, openness and transparency of the software” (Gaughan et al, 2009). It encourages collaboration within an organisation and its aim is to have

If the developers are not interested in the project or they don’t collaborate or add to the its development then the project will inevitably fail. Luckily, developers are usually highly motivated to work on inner source projects due to the openness and uniqueness of the projects. One way to combat this however is to encourage employees to work on the inner source project and to really push for collaboration amongst developers in the organisation. One way of doing this is by “building an environment in which all parties involved become supportive of the Inner Source program” (Stol et al 2004). Another such drawback is that, compared to traditional project management that has specific budgets for each stage of the projects development inner source project management can be difficult to cost accurately. In traditional project management “project costs are more easily predicted and calculated” (Gaughan et al 2007) but due to the openness of inner source projects and due to the large amount of changes to the project each day, these cost estimates are not accurate or