The Relationship between Team Climate and Performance in Software Development Teams

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Information Management, grade: 8.5, Aligarh Muslim University (Dept. of Business Administration, Faculty of Management Studies and Research, AMU), course: PhD (Business Administration), language: English, abstract: Research Question: I started with research questions such as what makes software teams more productive?, How team innovation is related to team performance?; and Does team climate impact team productivity, innovation, and performance in software teams? Research Objective: is to develop a conceptual model of team performance using factors such as team climate, team productivity, and team innovation. Objective is to observe different dimensions of these variables with respect to respondents' age, gender, educational qualification and experience; team role and team size. Objective is to find the relationships between variables: team climate and team productivity, team innovation & team performance. Research Methodology: Based on literature review, a conceptual/structural model is drawn with team climate as independent variable (comprising sub-factors such as vision, task orientation, support for innovation and participative safety ), team performance as dependent variable and team productivity and team innovation as intermediate variables. Respective hypotheses are defined. Data is collected using a questionnaire from 178 valid respondents from 18 software development teams of 6 organizations. Team sizes range from 2 to 18 members. Respondents include designers, architects, programmers and software engineers and team managers. Findings: Findings include respective team member role has impact on team climate, vision and task orientation. Team size effects task orientation, support for innovation, participative safety, team productivity, and team innovation. Vision strongly correlates to team performance. Support for innovation strongly correlates to team innovation. V

Dr.Goparaju Purna Sudhakar, PhD, PMP has 24 years of experience with 12 years in IT industry and 12 years in academia/research. He is currently working as Faculty Member at The ICFAI University in Hyderabad, India. He worked in USA, UK, Ireland, Finland and India. He has M.Tech. Executive MBA, PMP. He received PhD in Business Administration from Aligarh Muslim University, India. He was consultant to companies such as IBM, Siemens, Interwoven, Wipro, Citicorp, Nokia, Salomon Smith Barney, SIAC, DSET Corporation, and IONA Technologies. He authored or edited 16 books and published over 100 papers/case studies. He is on editorial board of a Brazilian and a Romanian Journal. He received Best Teacher (Management) award in 2015 from MTC Global. He won gold medal in Manager's Olympiad-2016 conducted by UNICOM at DevOps Conference in Bangalore. He is on Program Committee of several national and international conferences. The reuse domain software product he managed, Scorpus was identified as one among the top-100 IT innovations by NASSCOM (2007). He can be contacted at purna24@hotmail.com