Onboarding in Open Source Projects

Author

Fagerholm, Fabian ; Sanchez Guinea, Alejandro ; Borenstein, Jay ; Munch, Jurgen

Author_Institution

Univ. of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Volume

31

Issue

6

fYear

2014

fDate

Nov.-Dec. 2014

Firstpage

54

Lastpage

61

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.

Keywords

public domain software; software development management; innovation; open source software project; productivity; virtual software development team; Computer languages; Open source software; Open systems; Programming; Project management; Software engineering; Virtual groups; case study; distributed software development; global software development; mentoring; onboarding; open source software projects; software engineering; virtual teams;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7459

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MS.2014.107

Filename

6879055