Mentality patterns: recurring turns of mind as first-class concerns in software projects
Γεώργιος Κουτσούκος · International Journal of Technology Policy and Management · 2007
The increasing adoption of agile software development methodologies is amplifying the message that people are a first-order success factor of software projects. In this paper we describe a means to make certain people characteristics a first-class concern in software development projects. In particular, we present a systematic way of capturing, making explicit and effectively communicating human attitudes, beliefs and ways of thinking that influence individual and team work in software projects. Moreover, we provide an organised way to supplement and enhance software development methods, processes and project practice in order to explicitly take into account such human factors.