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Team SPICE: A SPICE-Based Teamwork Assessment Model

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Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2010)

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Software engineering is currently paying special attention to cooperative and human aspects of software development. Within this new socio-technical perspective of software engineering, teamwork appears to be a relevant topic. This paper presents a SPICE-based Teamwork Assessment Model for software teams. This model, named Team SPICE, is composed of a Teamwork Reference Model (TRM) and a Measurement Framework, both introduced in previous works. In this paper, the assessment process to be followed to perform a teamwork assessment and the experience of its application to software teams are described.

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    Esperança Amengual, Antònia Mas & Antoni Lluís Mesquida

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  2. Lero, The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre and School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

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Amengual, E., Mas, A., Mesquida, A.L. (2010). Team SPICE: A SPICE-Based Teamwork Assessment Model. In: Riel, A., O’Connor, R., Tichkiewitch, S., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 99. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15666-3_4

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