Effects of Individual Success on Globally Distributed Team Performance

TL;DR

This paper investigates how individual success impacts the performance of globally distributed software development teams, using student project data to analyze key influencing factors.

Contribution

It introduces an analysis of the relationship between individual success and team performance in distributed settings, based on empirical data from student projects.

Findings

Individual success positively correlates with team performance.

Effective communication tools enhance distributed team success.

Factors influencing success vary across different team configurations.

Abstract

Necessity of different competencies with high level of knowledge makes it inevitable that software development is a team work. With the today's technology, teams can communicate both synchronously and asynchronously using different online collaboration tools throughout the world. Researches indicate that there are many factors that affect the team success and in this paper, effect of individual success on globally distributed team performance will be analyzed. Student team projects undertaken by other researchers will be used to analyze collected data and conclusions will be drawn for further analysis.