Examining team cohesion as an effect of software engineering methodology

Authors:
Carol A. Wellington;Thomas Briggs;C. Dudley Girard
Affiliations:
Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA;Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA;Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA
Venue:
HSSE '05 Proceedings of the 2005 workshop on Human and social factors of software engineering
Year:
2005

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Abstract

This paper describes an experiment in which student teams developed products using two different methodologies: the Team Software Process (TSP) as a plan-driven methodology and Extreme Programming (XP) as an agile methodology. We carefully define cohesion and derive instruments appropriate for measuring cohesion. Then, throughout the projects, the teams were surveyed to measure various aspects of team cohesion and those results support conclusions about how methodology was affecting cohesion. The results show that the measures developed lead to interesting observations that can be applied to current, non-academic projects. In addition, future work in broadening this study is justified.