Team wisdom in software development projects and its impact on project performance

Akgun A. E.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, cilt.50, ss.228-243, 2020 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 50
  • Basım Tarihi: 2020
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2019.05.019
  • Dergi Adı: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, FRANCIS, ABI/INFORM, Aerospace Database, Applied Science & Technology Source, Business Source Elite, Business Source Premier, Communication Abstracts, Compendex, Computer & Applied Sciences, Educational research abstracts (ERA), Index Islamicus, INSPEC, Library and Information Science Abstracts, Metadex, PAIS International, Political Science Complete, Psycinfo, Public Affairs Index, Civil Engineering Abstracts, Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.228-243
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Team wisdom, Knowledge management, Software development, Speed-to-users, Team learning, KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, EPISTEMIC ACTION, STUDENT SAMPLES, SUCCESS FACTORS, WORK PRACTICES, ANTECEDENTS, DIVERSITY, INSIGHTS, JUSTICE, DESIGN
  • Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

While the concept of wisdom, which refers to how people make right use of their knowledge through their practical actions, judgments, and ethical decisions, in general attracts researcher interest in a variety of disciplines, such as philosophy, psychology and management studies, little is known about how wisdom is conceptualized and then operationalized in the software development project team context. Based on the frameworks for philosophical, group and organizational wisdom, this paper identifies software development project team wisdom as a process for how team members best use the stock and flow of their knowledge through collective judgment, virtue-ethics, emotions/feelings, and effective decision-making during their project-related efforts. Adapting the efforts and functional similarities of both group and organizational wisdom practices, this effort determines that wisdom-related mechanisms (e.g., team diversity, networking with other teams and people, and their past experiences), joint epistemic actions (e.g., team reasoning, intuition, and aesthetic capacity), and team virtue and prudence become the different faces of the software development team wisdom process. We then propose how these different faces interrelate and how they also relate to project process effectiveness, such as team learning and speed-to-users, both of which have been rarely addressed empirically in the context of software development project teamwork.