Use of Design Methods, Team Leaders' Goal Orientation, and Team Effectiveness: A Follow-Up Study in Software Development Projects
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Use of Design Methods, Team Leaders' Goal Orientation, and Team Effectiveness: A Follow-Up Study in Software Development Projects
This article reports an empirical study on effectiveness of software development teams. Itwas predicted thatboth the extent to whieh design methods are used and team leaders' goal orientation is related to team effectiveness. Follow-up data (6-12 months after first assessment) were available from 25 German and Swiss software development projeets. Hierarchical regression analysis showed that use...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1044-7318,1532-7590
DOI: 10.1207/s15327590ijhc0904_7