Dear InnerSource Expert,

A big thank you for participating in Round 2 — we hope you will be able to complete Round 3, which is the final round and which we expect will take about 100-120 minutes (based on ca. 5 min per pattern x 19 patterns), though it could be done in several smaller chunks of 10 or 15 min. Below we describe the focus of Round 3.

This document presents the synthesis of the results of Round 2 in which we asked you to provide your feedback on the challenges and strategies identified in Round 1. Based on your inputs we have distilled a list of InnerSource Patterns whose structure is based on the patterns as found in the InnerSource Commons.

In Round 2 you were presented with a hierarchy of levels (see figure below), wherein each level had a set of associated challenges and strategies. A brief explanation of each level is given below.

• Level 1 Organizational Environment: An organization’s environment can be considered as an amalgamation of the organizational culture, its policies and processes, and the behavioral element of the units which make up the organization, i.e., business units, departments, and teams.

• Level 2 Executive Management: This is the second layer and is an element which exerts considerable influence on the behavior of other layers. Executive management is also able to influence the constituent factors of the organizational environment.

• Level 3 Middle Management: Middle management is the third layer and has a certain amount of independent agency which allows it to influence the behavior of the team.

• Level 4 Team: The team is a dynamic unit composed of individuals who may be developers or a cross-functional team of testers, developers, architects. This is not a static unit and has a unique existence within the broader organization.

• Level 5 Individual: The individual is the innermost layer and comprises of people who constitute the team.

The GitHub repository contains a list of 19 patterns which were identified during the analysis of your input from Round 2. For each pattern, we identified the anonymized participant identifiers whose input led to the pattern (a full list of participants can be found in the file .

Focus for Round 3: For each pattern, please indicate to which level the pattern is appropriate in your view. If you think that a pattern is applicable to multiple levels, please feel free to match it with the relevant levels.

To structure the task, we provide a simple template in this repository, available here (a MS Word document) Round 3 template. For each pattern, you can indicate its applicability to a level by either marking an 'X' in the relevant cell of the table, or some short comments to clarify your choice. Below is an example:

We very much appreciate your continued support in this study, which has taken considerably more time. We hope, however, that you can see the value of the outcome thus far, and the potential value the final results may have for the InnerSource Commons community.

It would be great if you could submit your input by May 13, 2023 (about 2 weeks from now). Please submit your input to yshastri [at ucc dot ie] and k.stol [at ucc dot ie].