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.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Journal | IEEE Software |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| Pages (from-to) | 54-61 |
| ISSN | 0740-7459 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
| MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Fields of Science
- 113 Computer and information sciences
- case study
- distributed software development
- global software development
- mentoring
- onboarding
- open source software projects
- software engineering
- virtual teams