Team Maturity in Software Engineering Teams: A Work in Progress
Diana Valenca Pereira, George Marsicano Correa, Fábio Q. B. da Silva, Danilo Monteiro Ribeiro · 2017
Psychology and Business Administration have been studying maturity for a long time. On Software Engineering field, most of work has been focusing on maturity of technical practices and processes. Teams with high levels of maturity are associated to more positive relations between the quality of intra-team relationships and the quality and quantity of team outcomes. Aiming to understand how Software Engineers understand the concept of Team Maturity, we performed a qualitative research, collecting data from 32 team members from 6 different companies in Brazil, in the cities of Brasilia, Recife and Rio de Janeiro. So far, we identified some characteristics that are described as making part of a mature team, which also leaded us to some hypothesis to be confirmed in future studies.