Participation in software projects as professional communities of practice
Dayana Caridad Tejera-Hernández, Febe Ángel Ciudad-Ricardo, Arnobius Libotton · 2018
Cultivating communities of practice becomes an important goal in the workplaces to promote organizational and professional development. Software development communities, with the challenges that the vertiginous evolution of technologies and the new organizational forms of the software industry suppose, are failing to enable participation of newcomers. The lack of empirical and holistic experiences to guide managers to launch and maintain communities of practice in software development motivates this study. We are also concerned with the limited perspective with which participation is defined and measured in software development studies.