A Winning Team - What Personality Has To Do With Software Engineering

2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings (ICSE-Companion) Pub Date : 2019-05-25 DOI:10.1109/ICSE-Companion.2019.00100

Erica Weilemann

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Nowadays, software is developed in teams. But how should teams be put together in order to build a high quality team? This study shows how the different roles in a software development team - project leader, requirements engineer, architect/ designer, and developer/tester/maintainer - should be staffed with respect to HEXACO personality traits in order to form a high quality team. We conducted a qualitative analysis by leading 12 semistructured interviews with interviewees who work in the software engineering sector and have working experience of at least 2 years. We followed a Grounded Theory approach to derive personality traits and link them to software engineering roles. Our study shows that different personality profiles are indeed beneficial for the different roles. A project leader e.g. should have a more pronounced Agreeableness domain whereas the Extraversion domain should be pronounced with a requirements engineer. Our results should support the composition of software engineering teams with the aim to successfully build high quality teams.

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一个成功的团队——个性与软件工程的关系

如今，软件是在团队中开发的。但是，为了建立一个高质量的团队，团队应该如何组成呢?本研究展示了软件开发团队中的不同角色——项目负责人、需求工程师、架构师/设计师和开发人员/测试人员/维护者——应该如何根据HEXACO的个性特征来组建一个高质量的团队。我们对在软件工程领域工作且至少有2年工作经验的受访者进行了12次半结构化访谈，进行了定性分析。我们遵循扎根理论的方法来推导个性特征，并将它们与软件工程角色联系起来。我们的研究表明，不同的性格特征确实对不同的角色有益。例如，项目负责人应该有一个更明显的宜人性域，而外向性域应该与需求工程师一起发音。我们的结果应该支持以成功构建高质量团队为目标的软件工程团队的组成。

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