Research Group for Applied Software Engineering
Forschungsgruppe für Angewandte Softwaretechnik
Masterthesis
Development of a Team Personality Profile for Team Composition in Software Engineering
Advisor
Dora Dzvonyar
Author Michael Schmid
Date 10/2019
 

In educational project courses, people are put together in teams of more than two individuals to facilitate learning and the production of qualitative results. Research on team composition based on personality for education however is scarce, often with personality being the sole regarded factor.  Measuring a "team personality" is also more complex than just aggregating the individual scores. In this thesis, we designed a Team Personality Profile which takes the individual personality scores of a project team and transforms them onto a team role scale. Project course organizers receive insights and suggestions on favorable team roles and compositions as well as warnings about potential issues which will help them to adapt their composition accordingly. Project team leaders are able to utilize this data to help them successfully navigate their team through their project. To evaluate the design, we analyzed the Team Personality Profiles calculated with real individual personality data from multiple instances of a capstone university course.