  The phenomenon of adopting open source software development practices in a
corporate environment is known by many names, one being inner source. The
objective of this study is to investigate how an organization consisting of
small development teams can benefit from adopting inner source and assess the
level of applicability. The research has been conducted as a case study at a
software development company. Data collection was carried out through
interviews and a series of focus group meetings, and then analyzed by mapping
it to an available framework. The analysis shows that the organization
possesses potential, and also identified a number of challenges and benefits of
special importance to the case company. To address these challenges, the case
study synthesized the organizational and infrastructural needs of the
organization in a requirements specification describing a technical
infrastructure, also known as a software forge, with an adapted organizational
context and work process.
