Software Development Project Team Performance Influencing Factors

In the 21st century, due to the more competitive market environment, modern enterprises now pay more attention to the exertion of team spirit and the building of collective sense, so as to respond to the market demand quickly, and work more efficiently. Project team is an important type of team, and it is more and more important because more companies turn to project-oriented operation today. Among the literatures on project team, performance is the heated topic discussed by many people, because good performance is critical for teams to survive, only by obtaining effectiveness can teams be successful.This thesis aims at figuring out the factors influencing the performance of software development project teams. Firstly, we deeply immersed in the literatures in related fields, as a result, we summarize four categories of factors affecting team performance according to previous scholars' research: (1) factors about team composition and team design; (2) factors relate to the tasks; (3) factors relate to the organization environment in which teams operate; (4) factors relate to team growth process and team work process. Secondly, in adtion, we also reviewed the literatures on software development project teams. We understood some different characters about the factors influencing performance of software development project teams when compared with other forms of teams through interviews and cases. Then, we continued our research by questionnaires from dozens of companies.The paper reached following conclusions: (1) The performance of software development project team can be measured in two dimension of project product output and personnel satisfaction. (2) In software development project teams, the organization environment has no significant effect on team performance. (3) For software development project team, (4) for software development project team, people independence, team growth condition, team communication, C type conflict positively affect personnel satisfaction; team communication and, C type conflict have a significant positive and negative correlation with project output respectively. (5) for software development project team, the innovativeness of task is positively correlated with project output (6)company size significantly correlated with the performance of software development project team in two dimensions; for team size,it is total different; And the attribute of company is positively affect project product output.