Project team selection based on social networks

Building high performing, effective teams is a prerequisite for successful project completion. This need is more profound and pervasive today with the recent shift to empirical software engineering paradigm and the employment of agile project management. In this paper, we present ONSOCIAL system, a system that attempts to capitalize knowledge accumulated over social networks and to support the team selection process. For achieving this objective, ONSOCIAL system is using information stored in social network systems, analyses the stored profiles and offers recommendations for candidate team members.