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Establishing Effective Software Development Teams: An Exploratory Model

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Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2016)

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Abstract

Nowadays software represents an important piece to support a wide diversity of industrial needs in different domains. However, software development is not always a successful task, mainly for human related reasons. A problem that deeply affects small and medium enterprises (SMEs), particularly when they invest in software process improvement or to get high performance technology. The development of software is teamwork; unfortunately, not all teams manage themselves to achieve an effective performance. This paper aims to show a proposal of a model to integrate highly effective teams for software development. The proposed model focuses on three factors: skills, interactive styles and knowledge; with an innovative way to integrate teams by avoiding the use of traditional questionnaires. The paper includes both the background for this research and a global view of the model fundamentals. A discussion of the components of the model is also included.

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CIMAT- Unidad Zacatecas, CUCEI and the Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones en Comportamiento de la Universidad de Guadalajara for the facilities to perform this research.

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  1. Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, Av. Universidad no 222, 98068, Zacatecas, Mexico

    Mirna Muñoz & Jezreel Mejia

  2. CUCEI Universidad de Guadalajara, Blvrd. Marcelino García Barragán #1421, esq. Calzada Olímpica, 44430, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

    Adriana Peña

  3. Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones en Comportamiento de la Universidad de Guadalajara, Calle Francisco de Quevedo # 180, Col. Arcos Vallarta, 44130, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

    Nora Rangel

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Muñoz, M., Mejia, J., Peña, A., Rangel, N. (2016). Establishing Effective Software Development Teams: An Exploratory Model. In: Kreiner, C., O'Connor, R., Poth, A., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 633. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44817-6_6

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