"Personality profiles of global software developers" (Licorish and MacDonell, 2014)
Distributed teams benefit from certain personality traits, show a study of IBMs team, traits that can be determined from text automatically. How does your team stack up?
Results: For our sample of 146 practitioners, we found that the Top Members demonstrated more openness to experience than the Other practitioners. Additionally, practitioners involved in usability-related tasks were found to be highly extroverted, and coders were most neurotic and conscientious.
Conclusion: High levels of organizational and inter-personal skills may be useful for those operating in distributed settings, and personality diversity is likely to boost team performance. I'm an inline-style link with title
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