A big problem in a computer-based systems (CBSs) development organization is how to improve the immigration of a newbie (a new hire to the organization or a mover within the organization) into a CBS development project of the organization that is already in progress. The newbie, who is ignorant of the domain of the CBS, must be brought to the same awareness of the domain that the project veterans have (1) without becoming a drain on his or her mentor and (2) while becoming useful to the project as soon as possible. Based on other work that shows that some CBS development activities benefit from the out-of-the-box thinking of a domain ignorant, it is hypothesized that a newbie who starts his or her immigration with CBS development activities requiring or enhanced by domain ignorance has a more successful immigration than a newbie who starts with other activities. The current paper reports a two-part empirical test of the hypothesis. First, a survey was conducted among CBS development managers of varying experience to determine what CBS development activities they thought were helped by domain ignorance. Second, transcripts from fourteen interviews of domain-ignorant immigrants to new CBS development projects at one large company were examined to determine if the activities performed by those with the most successful immigrations were activities that are considered by CBS development managers to be helped by domain ignorance. In the end, there is some modest support for the hypothesis, despite all the opportunities for the data to show a different conclusion because of the existence of many other factors that influence immigration success. Following a discussion of the threats to the validity of the result, the paper concludes with recommendations for tasks to assign to newbies to improve their immigrations, recommendations for project staffing in general, and recommendations for future research.

基于计算机的系统（CBS）开发组织中的一个大问题是如何改善新手（该组织的新员工或该组织内的搬家者）向该组织的CBS开发项目中的迁移。 。对CBS领域一无所知的新手必须与项目退伍军人具有相同的领域意识：（1）不会浪费他或她的导师；（2）对项目有用的同时尽早。根据其他表明某些CBS开发活动得益于对领域无知的开箱即用思想的研究，据推测，刚开始从事CBS开发活动的新手移民需要或由于领域的无知而增强，其移民比其他活动的初学者更成功。本论文报告了对假设的两部分经验检验。首先，在具有不同经验的CBS开发经理中进行了一项调查，以确定他们认为哪些CBS开发活动受到了领域无知的帮助。其次，检查了在一家大公司进行的十四次对领域不了解移民的访谈到新的CBS开发项目的笔录，以确定那些移民最成功的人所进行的活动是否是CBS开发经理认为是由于领域无知而导致的活动。 。最后，对该假设有一些适度的支持，尽管由于存在影响移民成功的许多其他因素，数据有机会显示不同的结论。在讨论了对结果有效性的威胁之后，本文最后提出了分配给新手以改善其移民的任务的建议，总体上为项目人员配备的建议以及对未来研究的建议。