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Team work is defined by different factors: team size, members role, interactions and communication. In Agile Methodologies communication plays a fundamental role. Some research studies have found that the involvement of team members in a project also depends on the information provided. Communication also depends on the tool employed. The aim of this paper is to analyze communication among team members of the 9 most active projects on Sourceforge provided of a developers’ mailing list. In particular we tried to investigate how and why members post to developers’ mailing list and the use that different members make of these mailing lists.
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Uras, S., Concas, G., Lisci, M., Marchesi, M., Pinna, S. (2007). Communication Flow in Open Source Projects: An Analysis of Developers’ Mailing Lists. In: Concas, G., Damiani, E., Scotto, M., Succi, G. (eds) Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. XP 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4536. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73101-6_50
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