Volume 31, Issue 6, 1 November 2014, Article number 6879055, Pages 54-61
Onboarding in open source projects (Article)
a
University of Helsinki, Finland
b
Stanford University and Facebook, United States
University of Helsinki, Finland
b
Stanford University and Facebook, United States
Abstract
In today's world, many companies
turn to open source projects as a method to increase productivity and
innovation. A major challenge with managing this kind of development is
the onboarding of new developers into the virtual teams that drive such
projects. There's little guidance on how to initiate new members into
such teams and how to overcome the learning curve. This case study on
open source software projects shows that mentoring can have a
significant impact on onboarding new members into virtual software
development teams.
turn to open source projects as a method to increase productivity and
innovation. A major challenge with managing this kind of development is
the onboarding of new developers into the virtual teams that drive such
projects. There's little guidance on how to initiate new members into
such teams and how to overcome the learning curve. This case study on
open source software projects shows that mentoring can have a
significant impact on onboarding new members into virtual software
development teams.
Author keywords
case study; distributed software development; global
software development; mentoring; onboarding; open source software
projects; software engineering; virtual teams
software development; mentoring; onboarding; open source software
projects; software engineering; virtual teams
Indexed keywords
Engineering controlled terms: Computer software; Open source software; Open systems; Software engineering
Distributed software development; Global software
development; mentoring; Onboarding; Open source software projects;
Virtual team
development; mentoring; Onboarding; Open source software projects;
Virtual team
Engineering main heading: Software design
ISSN: 07407459
CODEN: IESOESource Type: Journal
Original language: English
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2014.107Document Type: Article
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
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