Kim Herzig

A Case Study of Onboarding in Software Teams: Tasks and Strategies

2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Developers frequently move into new teams or environments across software companies. Their onboarding experience is correlated with productivity, job satisfaction, and other short-term and long-term outcomes. The majority of the onboarding process comprises engineering tasks …

Nalanda: a socio-technical graph platform for building software analytics tools at enterprise scale

2022 · Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

Software development is information-dense knowledge work that requires collaboration with other developers and awareness of artifacts such as work items, pull requests, and file changes. With the speed of development increasing, information overload and information …