Resumen
The objective of this study is to find the relationship between personality composition of teams and the team performance in small software project teams. Software projects are plagued with cost and schedule overruns, costing billions of dollars to corporations and governments. One of the main factors contributing to such poor performance is software project team composition. Some of the team-related factors that can affect project performance are the personality composition of members, team leadership, and intrateam communication and coordination. It appears the human aspects of software development are more important than the technological aspects for better performance. In this study, the heterogeneity between the team leader and team members was analyzed. This was done by computing heterogeneity as the absolute difference between the score of the team leader and the average score of the other team members. Two of the personality dimensions- involving social interaction and information gathering were significantly related to team performance.