The Role of Face-to-Face Meetings in Technology-Supported Self-Organizing Distributed Teams

by: K Crowston, J Howison, C Masango, UY Eseryel

Professional Communication, IEEE Transactions on, Vol. 50, No. 3. (2007), pp. 185-203.

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We examine the role of face-to-face meetings in the context of technology-supported self-organizing distributed (or virtual teams), specifically free/libre open source software (FLOSS) development teams. Based on a qualitative inductive analysis of data from interviews and observations at FLOSS conferences, we identify a variety of settings in which developers meet face-to-face, and we point out the activities performed in these settings and the benefits obtained. Contrary to conventional wisdom about distributed teams, FLOSS developers generally do not meet face-to-face until the project is well under way. An additional benefit of face-to-face meetings is time away from a regular job and speed of interaction for certain kinds of tasks.

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