Effects of Individual Success on Globally Distributed Team Performance

Abstract

Necessity of different competencies with high level of knowledge makes it inevitable that software development is a team work. With the today’s technology, teams can communicate both synchronously and asynchronously using different online collaboration tools throughout the world. Researches indicate that there are many factors that affect the team success and in this paper, effect of individual success on globally distributed team performance will be analyzed. Student team projects undertaken by other researchers will be used to analyze collected data and conclusions will be drawn for further analysis.