Drawing from team-level job demands-resources theory, we hypothesize that team workload demands moderate the positive link between boundary work (i.e., spanning and buffering) effectiveness innovation performance), such is more beneficial for when teams face higher demands. Furthermore, predict this interaction occurs through increased vigor, where vigor defined as an affective emergent state c...

From a management perspective, it is essential that software estimates used in a TSP launch are as accurate as possible. Significant growth due to estimation inaccuracy can wreak havoc on a team attempting to stay within cost and schedule while executing its established plan. This article discusses how a software team that uses both proxy-based and size-based estimates is able to accurately pla...

The productivity of software development is one of the major concerns for project managers. Given the increasing complexity of the software being developed and the concomitant rise in the typical project size, the productivity has not consistently improved. By analyzing the latest release of ISBSG data repository with 4106 projects ever developed, we report on the factors found to significantly...

this study adopted a survey research strategy to examine the impact of servant leadership and its dimensions on team effectiveness and trust in teams. the servant leadership, a new model of leadership, in recent years has been an area of interest to researchers and administrative staff. furthermore, institutions of higher education in the third millennium, need to maintain and increase the reli...

Teams of agents can be made more effective by the introduction of team assistants to accomplish specific tasks. Team assistants may be real or virtual and may be first class team members or only team adjuncts. For example, a team assistant may be created as a virtual, first class team member to serve as team manager to coordinate the actions of team members. The need for a team assistant might ...