• Badly named SW components

People can't find internally developed solutions becuse of poor naming of SW components.

• Reusable Software component(s) are available internally but users can't easily find these.
• This problem is more likely to occur where there are silos in the company (e.g., larger companies; smaller companies may have fewer opportunities for reuse of internally developed software).
• The company traditionally has been bad at sharing across silos (people don't have the culture of sharing).

• Enough people are contributing things to inner sourcing that it is becoming hard to find components.
• No good internal search engine (or not connected to git repositories; and difficult to make this change happen)
• Users may not be able to find the people responsible even if they know where the common places are.
• People even when they know about inner source, they search, can't find something and become discouraged from looking at that site again.
• Hard to find stuff in github (especially if names are cryptic and keywords aren't used).

• Improve findability within a repo (use meaningful project name; don't use code names for projects; put keywords into descriptions)
  • note: problem/pattern: solution exists but people aren't following it
    • ask PayPal folks about their practices set up to address this problem
    • Use tagging (tag repositories) (validated)
    • Use labels
    • Pull in Repo names, descriptions and README.md files into the search engine (not the code itself)
    • Instate a process change to first check for internal solutions for this problem
    • Concierge service (guide) to help product people find stuff. Might not scale but could be helpful in the beginning. -Encourage the community to identify redundancy and make recommendations for the better package to use. Could be a dedicated role within a company, someone with a complete overview of what is going on

• Internal components are easily visible
• Developers looking for code can search for it and find it quickly.
• Developers are now looking internally for software components

Brainstormed pattern idea reviewed

• Georg Grutter
• Erin Bank
• Padma Sudarsan
• Tim Yao