Building High Effectives Teams Using a Virtual Environment

Abstract

The increasing need of effective teams is a reality. And software development organizations are not the exception, because nowadays, most software is developed by teams. An important factor of a team is to achieve an adequate integration of its members, strongly linked to the team cohesion and performance. It is essential to integrate reinforced teams according to its members’ abilities, knowledge and interactive styles. This paper provides a proposal for identifying team roles using a virtual environment and the idea of the Rube Goldberg machine. A first step implemented from this proposal provided goods results in the selection of adequate roles for integrating a more effective team.