Commit Virtual 2021: Remote Mobbing and Inner Source during pandemic using GitLab

Speakers: Loren Kirby, Ankur Marfatia

At a large enterprise like Delta, multiple teams may be facing the same issues simultaneously. Teams working in silos to solve these issues is inefficient. Innersource at Delta brings teams together to solve these shared issues. In addition to inner source, we use mob programming, similar to pair programming, with a single driver and multiple navigators to solve these problems.

In this talk, we will highlight how mob programming, innersource, and GitLab help our teams be more efficient and solve shared problems together. We will highlight an innersourced project to develop a DevSecOps framework and monitoring. While working on this project remotely due to the pandemic, we used GitLab’s Issues, Epics, Web IDE, Pages and CI to bring contributors from various teams across Delta together, run regular remote mobbing sessions, and deliver effective software.