Context: It is not uncommon for a new team member to join an existing Agile software development team, even after development has started. This new team member faces a number of challenges before they are integrated into the team and can contribute productively to team progress. Ideally, each newcomer should be supported in this transition through an effective team onboarding program, although prior evidence suggests that this is challenging for many organisations. Objective: We seek to understand how Agile teams address the challenge of team onboarding in order to inform future onboarding design. Method: We conducted an interview survey of eleven participants from eight organisations to investigate what onboarding activities are common across Agile software development teams. We also identify common goals of onboarding from a synthesis of literature. A repertory grid instrument is used to map the contributions of onboarding techniques to onboarding goals. Results: Our study reveals that a broad range of team onboarding techniques, both formal and informal, are used in practice. It also shows that particular techniques that have high contributions to a given goal or set of goals. Conclusions: In presenting a set of onboarding goals to consider and an evidence-based mechanism for selecting techniques to achieve the desired goals it is expected that this study will contribute to better-informed onboarding design and planning. An increase in practitioner awareness of the options for supporting new team members is also an expected outcome.

翻译：新团队成员加入现有Agile软件开发团队的情况并非罕见,即使在开发工作开始后也是如此。这位新团队成员在融入团队之前面临一些挑战,能够对团队进展做出建设性贡献。理想的情况是,每个新来者都应通过有效的入职团队方案在过渡过程中得到支持,尽管先前的证据表明这对许多组织来说具有挑战性。目标:我们力求了解新团队如何应对入职团队的挑战,以便为未来入职设计提供信息。方法:我们对来自8个组织的11名参与者进行了访谈调查,以调查入职活动在Agile软件开发团队中哪些是常见的。我们还从综合文献中确定入职的共同目标。使用一个存储网工具来绘制入职技术对入职目标的贡献。结果:我们的研究显示,上岗团队的广泛团队,无论是正规还是非正规,都在实践中使用。它还表明,对既定目标或成套目标有高度贡献的特殊技术。结论:在提出一套上入职目标时,我们还从一个基于证据的理念上确定入职目标的共同目标。我们利用一个网格工具来绘制入职技术的预期结果,从而选择新的目标。