Identifying the Impact of Team Size on Team Work Quality (TWQ) in Software Teams through an Empirical Approach

The aim of this research is to investigate the impact that team size creates on team work quality (TWQ) of teams that are involved in software development. This study has considered the seven constructs of a team proposed by Weimar et al (2013) for measuring team work quality of a software team. 112 respondents from various IT based multinational organizations belonging to Chennai, India have been surveyed. A multiple analysis variance analysis was applied on the data collected. The statistical analysis of the primary quantitative data collected reveals that team work quality is greatly affected by the size of the team. Also it has been proven that smaller teams exhibit better overall performance when compared with that of the larger teams.