People Skills: Optimizing Team Development and Performance

People Skills: Optimizing Team Development and Performance

This is another in a series of articles about some of the most effective models, methods, and processes of organization development (OD), also known as change management, a discipline that offers much to professionals intent on solving real-world problems. Because it is based on a systemic view of organizations, OD includes the whole universe of fuzzy people issues that increasingly determine t...

Understanding Software Development Team Performance

This paper gives the popular definitions of team, essential characteristics of teams and team development stages. It discusses the previous empirical studies undertaken to investigate the software development team performance. The factors affecting the software development team performance have been explained. It reviews the past research done in finding the performance of software development ...

Effect of obstetric team training on team performance and medical technical skills: a randomised controlled trial.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether obstetric team training in a medical simulation centre improves the team performance and utilisation of appropriate medical technical skills of healthcare professionals. DESIGN Cluster randomised controlled trial. SETTING The Netherlands. SAMPLE The obstetric departments of 24 Dutch hospitals. METHODS The obstetric departments were randomly assigned to a 1...

Optimizing Robotic Team Performance with Probabilistic Model Checking

Investigating Development Team Performance: Research Methods

A central concept in studies of teams is their performance.1 Some studies refer to team performance as the process of conducting teamwork and to team effectiveness as the teamwork’s outcome.2 Some studies also consider learning to be a team-performance indicator. For our purposes, performance is teamwork’s outcome, such as meeting project goals, budget, and schedule; the quality of the software...