Context: Individuals' personality traits have been shown to influence their behavior during team work. In particular, positive group attitudes are said to be essential for distributed and global software development efforts where collaboration is critical to project success. Objective: Given this, we have sought to study the influence of global software practitioners' personality profiles from a psycholinguistic perspective. Method: Artifacts from ten teams were selected from the IBM Rational Jazz repository and mined. We employed social network analysis (SNA) techniques to identify and group practitioners into two clusters based on the numbers of messages they communicated, Top Members and Others, and used standard statistical techniques to assess practitioners' engagement in task changes associated with work items. We then performed psycholinguistic analysis on practitioners' messages using linguistic dimensions of the LIWC tool that had been previously correlated with the Big Five personality profiles. Results: For our sample of 146 practitioners, we found that the Top Members demonstrated more openness to experience than the Other practitioners. Additionally, practitioners involved in usability-related tasks were found to be highly extroverted, and coders were most neurotic and conscientious. Conclusion: High levels of organizational and inter-personal skills may be useful for those operating in distributed settings, and personality diversity is likely to boost team performance.

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全球软件开发人员的个性简介

背景：研究表明，个人的个性特征会影响团队合作过程中的行为。特别是，对于协作对项目成功至关重要的分布式和全球软件开发工作，积极的团队态度被认为是至关重要的。目的：鉴于此，我们试图从心理语言的角度研究全球软件从业人员的个性特征的影响。方法：从IBM Rational Jazz存储库中选择了十个团队的工件并进行了挖掘。我们使用社交网络分析（SNA）技术，根据从业人员传达的信息数量（最高成员和其他）将从业人员识别和分组为两个集群，并使用标准统计技术评估从业人员对与工作项目相关的任务变更的参与度。然后，我们使用LIWC工具的语言维度对从业者的信息进行了心理语言分析，该维度先前已与“五大”人格特征相关联。结果：在我们对146位从业者的样本中，我们发现，高级会员比其他从业者表现出更大的开放经验。此外，发现与可用性有关的任务的从业者性格外向，编码员则最为神经质和尽责。结论：高水平的组织和人际交往能力对于在分布式环境中工作的人员可能有用，并且人格多样性可能会提高团队绩效。结果：在我们对146位从业者的样本中，我们发现，高级会员比其他从业者表现出更大的开放经验。此外，发现与可用性有关的任务的从业者性格外向，编码员则最为神经质和尽责。结论：高水平的组织和人际交往能力对于在分布式环境中工作的人员可能有用，并且人格多样性可能会提高团队绩效。结果：在我们对146位从业者的样本中，我们发现，高级会员比其他从业者表现出更大的开放经验。此外，发现与可用性有关的任务的从业者性格外向，编码员则最为神经质和尽责。结论：高水平的组织和人际交往能力对于在分布式环境中工作的人员可能有用，并且人格多样性可能会提高团队绩效。