Onboarding in Open Source Projects

Fabian Fagerholm, Alejandro Sanchez Guinea, Jay Borenstein, Jürgen Münch

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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.
Originalspråkengelska
TidskriftIEEE Software
Volym31
Nummer6
Sidor (från-till)54-61
ISSN0740-7459
DOI
StatusPublicerad - 2014
MoE-publikationstypA1 Tidskriftsartikel-refererad

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