A follow up study of the effect of personality on the performance of software engineering teams

ISESE'06 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 232-241

  Karn, John ^a   Cowling, Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnographic observations; Group work in software engineering; Jungian personality types; Myers briggs type indicator

Indexed keywords

ETHNOGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS; MYERS BRIGGS TYPE INDICATORS; ONLINE VERSIONS;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE; STUDENTS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34247375593     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1159733.1159769     Document Type: Conference Paper

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