Optimal team formation for software development exercise: evaluating a method for team formation based on the type of project manager

Authors:
Kiyomi Shirakawa;Shiori Yamamoto;Ryota Chiba;Hiroaki Hashiura;Seiichi Komiya
Affiliations:
Graduate School of Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan;Graduate School of Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan;Graduate School of Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan;Graduate School of Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan;Graduate School of Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Venue:
ACE'10 Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS international conference on Applications of computer engineering
Year:
2010

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Abstract

In the software development exercise for the third graders of the Shibaura Institute of Technology Department of Information Science and Engineering, students are assigned to each team with the capability to carry out a role, for optimization of team formation in 2006. However in the questionnaire results after the end of the exercise, it turned out that the low motivation of some students caused the shortage of communication of the members in the team. Then, the authors built up the hypothesis that "each student's motivation is decided by whether the type of PM (Project Manager) and the PM type each member desire is in agreement. As a result, the team formation of the students without the practice experience confirmed that high team formation of the cooperativeness between team members was realizable by considering a PM type.