It is also my guess that you need an explicit supply contract to establish the supplier relationship formally. If you do it within a holding company (inner source) that formal relationship is establis

Hi, Germany has a new law about diligence in the supply chain, basically to watch out that no supplier violates human rights. We like to talk about open source projects being suppliers, but I'm not su

PS: The answer is yes, as all the bogus Scrum certifications show (the word certification or certification mark is not protected AFAIK). What I meant is: Does this working group want to let it come to

Hi all, I assume that the short-term business value of having an OpenChain certification (as a company) is that you can promise your customers lower open source compliance costs. Longer-term I assume

Hi all, If customers are not asking for OpenChain certification, then it is not a must-have feature i.e. it is not a K.O. criterion that stops your sale. Then, you can only convince your folks that be

Mary: Thanks for the answer! I agree that an integration of OpenChain and ASPICE on a specification level makes no sense. They are two different topics and there are other domains than automotive obvi

Hello everyone and happy new (Western) year! Short question please: Does anyone see a connection between compliance/conformance assessments for OpenChain and Automotive SPICE? I.e. some way how OpenCh

And here are the slides: https://dirkriehle.com/2018/05/16/slides-for-keynote-at-inner-source-commons-summit-at-bosch/ Cheers, Dirk

Dear Masao Taniguchi: You are talking about what is commonly called inner source these days. You may enjoy our summary of ten years of inner source case studies here: https://dirkriehle.com/2018/07/05

Hello everyone, if you want credibility (and precise terminology and best practices), the ISO is probably the organization to turn to. I think they have standards for how certification bodies and sche

I didn't want to answer, because I also hadn't tried it yet.l, but: The Techcrunch article is rather confusing, the website announcement then is clear: The tool reviews existing or newly to be introdu

Mike: Thanks for mentioning our paper! Shane (Coughlan) even helped a bit ;-) Best, Dirk