Relações entre as personalidades e o clima de trabalho de equipes ágeis de desenvolvimento de software

Abstract

The modernization of software development processes on the last decades has been showing preference for the adoption of agile development metodologies. Those metodologies also consider important the quality of the interactions between the team members, and use concepts such as team climate and team success. There are already tools that can be used to analyse individual characteristics of developers and how they behave, but the literature still lacks papers that analyse different personality compositions and how those may affect the perception of team success on agile software development teams.With that in mind, it is possible to try to predict how team members relations will work and use this knowledge to build agile software development teams, aiming at maximizing the quality of the members’ interactions. This paper aims at analysing the relations between MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicator) personalities and its effects on the well being of the team members, using the concept of Team Success. To do so, an exploratory literature research was conducted to find out which would be the best metrics and analyses that should be used. After that, a real world dataset was created through surveys. This data was then used to analyse the relations between the members personalities, team compositions and Team Success. The results shows significant correlations between personality diversity and Team Success, and also between specific personality traits and the Team Success.