Abstract
Software development is typically a team activity due to its complexity. However, integrating a new team can be challenging because team member needs to adapt to work with the others. In this context, the study of personal or soft skills has become relevant because they are essential for teamwork and individual success in professional life; although evaluating them is challenging. This paper presents a proposal for assessing soft skills, specifically flexibility to change, with games as an alternative. Games abstract participants, making them to forget they are observed, producing an environment in which a more natural performance is expected while recreating situations similar to those during software development projects. Also, results from a case study focused on evaluate flexibility to change are presented. Flexibility to change is a soft skill that can be evaluated at individual level and highly contributes to the success of teamwork.
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Peña Pérez Negrón, A., Muñoz, M., Bonilla Carranza, D. (2023). Identification of the Personal Skills Using Games. In: Yilmaz, M., Clarke, P., Riel, A., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1890. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42307-9_7
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