High Performance and Meeting Participation: An Observational Study in Software Design Teams

This study compared high and moderate performers' involvement in cooperation processes. The author used an observational method to exarnine meeting participation of 60 software professionals from 10 software projects. Analyses showed that high performers participated more in the overall meeting process. In poody structured meetings, high performers contributed more to process regulation activities, such as meeting management, goal setting, problem comprehension, and feedback seeking. No differences in process regulation activities were found for highly structured meetings. Contributions to team processes as a whole differed largely across individual team members, with high performers playing an important role and showing a high adaptation to the specific situational requirements.