Resumen
System development professionals display three dominant system development orientations, technical, end user, and sociopolitical, or a combination thereof. These orientations relate closely to perceptions of system failure, i.e. user, technical, environments. The perceived skill needs of these professionals further corroborate their orientation. The article suggests that knowledge about any one of these characteristics, i.e. orientation, perceived skill needs, perceived system failure reasons, is useful in forming integrated project development teams. Further, the ability to ascertain an employee's orientation for team assignment purposes can be accomplished outside the department by human resources personnel through testing using the orientation scale in combination with other instruments, such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, indicating personality preferences. The employee characteristics may then be used to develop successful, diversely oriented teams.