Decoding Diversity: Understanding its Impact on Team Performance in Software Teams
As software becomes more ubiquitous in society, software engineering (SE) teams are tasked with designing technologies for more diverse users, requiring more innovation. As SE teams become more diverse due to industrial diversity initiatives to boost innovation, teams struggle with the challenges of diversity, such as heightened conflict. SE lacks an understanding of the relationship between diversity and high team performance. This research leverages work outside SE to build a theory explaining the diversity-performance relationship for SE teams. Preliminary results suggest several factors which support high performance in diverse teams: the ability to develop practical skills, overcome hardships, and manage emotions, and emphasize the important role of empathy in SE teams.
Tue 29 AprDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
11:00 - 12:00 | Session 2: Human aspects (talks and panel)Doctoral Symposium at 212 Chair(s): Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology | ||
11:00 6mTalk | Decoding Diversity: Understanding its Impact on Team Performance in Software Teams Doctoral Symposium Kezia Devathasan University of Victoria | ||
11:06 6mTalk | Diverse Participation and Newcomer Risk Perception in Open Source Software Communities Doctoral Symposium Hana Frluckaj University of Texas | ||
11:12 6mTalk | A Framework for Supporting Transparency in Software Ecosystems Portals from the Point of View of Developer Experience Doctoral Symposium Rodrigo Zacarias UNIRIO - Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro | ||
11:18 6mTalk | Studying and Improving Code Understandability through Atoms of Confusion Doctoral Symposium Guoshuai Shi University of Waterloo | ||
11:24 6mTalk | Understanding and Improving Code Review of Changes in Build Systems Doctoral Symposium Mahtab Nejati University of Waterloo | ||
11:30 30mPanel | Panel: Human aspects Doctoral Symposium Rashina Hoda Monash University, David Redmiles University of California, Irvine, Gema Rodríguez-Pérez Department of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Kezia Devathasan University of Victoria, Hana Frluckaj University of Texas, Mahtab Nejati University of Waterloo, Guoshuai Shi University of Waterloo, Rodrigo Zacarias UNIRIO - Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro |