So many know the drill - a centre of excellence is stood up, some code and recommendations come out of it, nobody really uses it, back to the usual in a year or so. It happens very often in large enterprises trying to reinvent the engineering function

With this session though I am not here to complain or talk about failed attempts - I want to talk about an actual success story which absorbed over a year of my life (and it's still ongoing!), which led to a well-oiled Inner Source product in a large enterprise as well as a number of examples of collaborative development in a non-IT organisation.

It's been a journey, long and with mistakes, however successful in the end! Let's see how.

Matteo Emili is Director and Head of Software Engineering for Accenture Microsoft Business Group UKIA, leading teams at the intersection of modern engineering, DevOps, and AI. A Microsoft MVP, he focuses on practical, real world solutions and active community knowledge sharing.