Creation and Evaluation of Software Teams - A Social Approach

TL;DR

This paper proposes a social-based model for creating and evaluating software teams, incorporating assessments like sociological and quality of life tests, and demonstrates its effectiveness in improving team productivity.

Contribution

Introduces a novel social approach model for software team formation and evaluation, including assessments and strategies, validated through empirical evaluation.

Findings

Model improved team productivity

Effective role assignment strategies identified

Empirical results support model validity

Abstract

This work discusses an important issue in the area of human resource management by proposing a novel model for creation and evaluation of software teams. The model consists of several assessments, including a technical test, a quality of life test and a psychological-sociological test. Since the technical test requires particular organizational specifications and cannot be examined without reference to a specific company, only the sociological test and the quality of life tests are extensively discussed in this work. Two strategies are discussed for assigning roles in a project. Initially, six software projects were selected, and after extensive analysis of the projects, two projects were chosen and correctives actions were applied. An empirical evaluation was also conducted to assess the model effectiveness. The experimental results demonstrate that the application of the model improved the productivity of project teams.