Group developmental psychology and software development performance
Paper in proceeding, 2017

Due to the fact that software development is a product of team effort it is important to investigate the influence of group developmental psychology on software development performance. In this case study we wanted to test how performance (i.e. velocity and planning effectiveness) are related to the group's maturity level. We gave the Group Development Questionnaire (the GDQ) to 19 software developers to assess their group maturity (i.e. their progress in their group development) and ran correlation analysis against the development velocity and planning effectiveness (i.e. earned points over planned points). The results show that group maturity is correlated to planning effectiveness but not velocity, meaning that group development is connected to the team's ability to plan well, but not their ability to implement tasks fast.

Author

Lucas Gren

University of Gothenburg

Khaled Al Sabbagh

University of Gothenburg

Proceedings - 2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion, ICSE-C 2017

232-234
978-1-5386-1589-8 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics

Software Engineering

DOI

10.1109/ICSE-C.2017.85

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