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Characteristics of High Performance Software Development Teams

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A high performance team is one that exceeds all reasonable expectations and produces extraordinary results. In this work, we are interested in understanding contexts and conditions in which software engineering teams are likely to achieve this status. To this end, we are carrying out a systematic literature review to identify what are the known factors that booster or hinder the performance of software engineering teams and an ad hoc literature review about training approaches in Software Engineering. This paper presents a discussion in relation to current training approaches to software development and their relation to high performance team formation. Based on what was found we reflect on the challenges of high performance teams for software development projects. This work constitutes a key preliminary result towards the design of more elaborate models and theories to predict and explain the performance of software engineering teams.

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  1. Faculdade de Informática, Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

    Alessandra C. S. Dutra & Rafael Prikladnicki

  2. Department of Computing, Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

    Tayana Conte

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  1. MODESTE/ESEO, Angers, France

    Slimane Hammoudi

  2. Macquarie University, Sydney, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland, Wroclaw, Poland

    Leszek Maciaszek

  3. Despatx Omega-132, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

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Dutra, A.C.S., Prikladnicki, R., Conte, T. (2015). Characteristics of High Performance Software Development Teams. In: Hammoudi, S., Maciaszek, L., Teniente, E., Camp, O., Cordeiro, J. (eds) Enterprise Information Systems. ICEIS 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 241. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29133-8_17

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