SOHCO: A Strategy for Constructing Efficient Teams

Software engineering is concerned with organizational issues, project management, and human behavior. In the process of constructing a work team, leadership faces the task of evaluating the talents and abilities of each professional and combining them into a cohesive unit that matches the profile of...

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Main Authors: Sheila Granato Ribeiro, Andre A. S. Ivo, Mauricio G. V. Ferreira, Rodrigo R. Silva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2023-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10041131/
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Summary:Software engineering is concerned with organizational issues, project management, and human behavior. In the process of constructing a work team, leadership faces the task of evaluating the talents and abilities of each professional and combining them into a cohesive unit that matches the profile of the project. This article describes the SOHCO technique, a strategy for forming work teams that calculates a score for each candidate based on the project profile, as well as a ranking for the work team whose desired objective most closely aligns with the project profile. This article presents exploratory research, an experiment, two real-world case studies, and a comparison of methods using WS and RW coefficients to assess ranking consistency and similarity. Results reveal that SOHCO makes constructing a work team more objective, reduces leadership effort, enhances the ability to evaluate new team arrangements, increases the probability of project success, and reduces training costs. As a limitation, the SOHCO method does not take sub-criteria weights into account.
ISSN:2169-3536