Title :
Onboarding in Open Source Projects
Author :
Fagerholm, Fabian ; Sanchez Guinea, Alejandro ; Borenstein, Jay ; Munch, Jurgen
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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;
Journal_Title :
Software, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MS.2014.107
