Compound developer productivity by code reuse

Before sourcecode management tools like gitlab, github, where did developers keep their coding pearls of wisdom? mostly on their home directory. I have seen 9 different implementations of strlen function which computes length of a string in the same organization.

Enabling collaborative tools can foster code reuse by easing discovery and result in productivity improvements.

If you use gitlab or github or similar SCM tools these days, I would suggest to set default visibility of new project to be public instead of private.

This one tweak can make sea of difference by making code discoverable across your organization. It is also called innersource

Don't worry, when I say public I do not mean open to public, its visible within your organization. Doing things in open is another good thing. Its OpenSource development model, More on that some other day !