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Towards the Understanding and Classification of the Personality Traits of Software Development Practitioners: Situational Context Cards Approach

Murat Yilmaz,Rory V. O'Connor

Published 2012 in EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications

ABSTRACT

This study explores the personality traits of software development practitioners by using a classification schema based on the personality traits extended on the Myers-Briggs type indicator (MBTI). To extract the information necessary for understanding and classification of software development personnel, we developed a card game playable with either single or multiple participants. The game consists of seventy cards, which have a keyword and a picture on one side and a hypothetical situation typically encountered in software development landscapes with two different selectable options on the other side. The game master (GM) reads a situation by showing the pictures to participants and elicits the most suitable answer in between two selections. Ultimately, the outcome of the game reveals the personality traits of individuals on a compatible scale with the MBTI. To evaluate our game-based personality identification method, we conduct a case study with sixteen individuals at a university environment in seven group sessions. In light of the experience gained, secondly we refine the questions and test the game on sixty software development personnel selected from a set of team-based pairings at a middle size software company. Our preliminary results indicate that there are more individuals in software teams, who may perceive to be extroverted not only in a classroom environment but also in an industrial setting. Moreover, the initial results suggest that our method can be a viable to the classical paper based MBTI tests particularly for managing the workforce in software development projects.

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    2012

  • Venue

    EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications

  • Publication date

    2012-09-05

  • Fields of study

    Computer Science, Engineering, Psychology

  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.1109/SEAA.2012.62
  • External record

    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

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