The Impact of Cultural Relativism on InnerSource Communities - Claude Warren (Aiven) - IS Summit 22
Channel: InnerSource Commons
Date: 30/11/2022

The Impact of Cultural Relativism on Building Cross Cultural InnerSource Communities - Claude Warren (Aiven) - IS Summit 22

This talk will give an overview Cultural Relativism as it applies to cross cultural software development as well as examples of where culture drove misunderstanding. This will lead to a discussion of the concrete steps taken to mitigate the issues in several engagements with specific focus on steps taken to build an inclusive community. This talk will include highlights of the challenges of asynchronous meetings, bringing management on board, sources of truth, fear of failure, and shared documentation.

Attendees will understand the necessity of questioning cultural assumptions and understanding cultural relativism, addressing perceived career limiting actions, and providing safe spaces to share ideas, solutions, and problems.

Claude N. Warren, Jr. (Aiven)

Claude Warren is a Senior Software Engineer with over 30 years experience. He is currently employed by Aiven in Galway, Ireland where he works on their Open Source Project Office with particular emphasis on Apache Cassandra. He has managed project migration in an InnerSource project and worked on teams that assist management in understanding how their projects got into the red, how to get them green again, and how to keep them there. He has presented papers at several conferences and has several papers published both in the popular IT press and in refereed journals.

He is a founding member of the Denver Mad Scientists Club and winner of the original Critter Crunch competition.

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