Are team personality and climate related to satisfaction and software quality? Aggregating results from a twice replicated experiment
Entity
UAM. Departamento de Ingeniería InformáticaPublisher
Elsevier BVDate
2015-01Citation
10.1016/j.infsof.2014.09.002
Information and Software Technology 57 (2015): 141–156
ISSN
0950-5849DOI
10.1016/j.infsof.2014.09.002Funded by
This research has been funded by the following projects: Experiment Replication and Synthesis Technologies in SE (MICINN TIN2011-23216) and Go Lite (MICINN TIN2011-24139).Project
Gobierno de España. TIN2011-23216; Gobierno de España. TIN2011-24139Editor's Version
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2014.09.002Subjects
Personality factors; Team climate; Software quality; Satisfaction; Replication; Meta-analysis; InformáticaNote
This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Information and Software Technology. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Information and Software Technology, [VOL 57, (2015)] DOI 10.1016/j.infsof.2014.09.002Rights
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Abstract
Context
Research into software engineering teams focuses on human and social team factors. Social psychology deals with the study of team formation and has found that personality factors and group processes such as team climate are related to team effectiveness. However, there are only a handful of empirical studies dealing with personality and team climate and their relationship to software development team effectiveness.
Objective
We present aggregate results of a twice replicated quasi-experiment that evaluates the relationships between personality, team climate, product quality and satisfaction in software development teams.
Method
Our experimental study measures the personalities of team members based on the Big Five personality traits (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism) and team climate factors (participative safety, support for innovation, team vision and task orientation) preferences and perceptions. We aggregate the results of the three studies through a meta-analysis of correlations. The study was conducted with students.
Results
The aggregation of results from the baseline experiment and two replications corroborates the following findings. There is a positive relationship between all four climate factors and satisfaction in software development teams. Teams whose members score highest for the agreeableness personality factor have the highest satisfaction levels. The results unveil a significant positive correlation between the extraversion personality factor and software product quality. High participative safety and task orientation climate perceptions are significantly related to quality.
Conclusions
First, more efficient software development teams can be formed heeding personality factors like agreeableness and extraversion. Second, the team climate generated in software development teams should be monitored for team member satisfaction. Finally, aspects like people feeling safe giving their opinions or encouraging team members to work hard at their job can have an impact on software quality. Software project managers can take advantage of these factors to promote developer satisfaction and improve the resulting product.
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Google Scholar:Acuña Castillo, Silvia Teresita
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Gómez, Marta N.
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Hannay, Jo E.
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Juristo, Natalia
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Pfahl, Dietmar
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