Universality of Egoless Behavior of Software Engineering Students
This addresses the challenge of enhancing team collaboration in software engineering for organizations, but it is incremental as it builds on existing frameworks like Lamont Adams' commandments.
The paper tackled the problem of improving software development by promoting egoless behavior, finding that while Indian and Canadian cohorts showed similar levels of egoless behavior, both Indian and Japanese cohorts struggled more with egoless behavior in coding activities compared to general activities.
Software organizations have relied on process and technology initiatives to compete in a highly globalized world. Unfortunately, that has led to little or no success. We propose that the organizations start working on people initiatives, such as inspiring egoless behavior among software developers. This paper proposes a multi-stage approach to develop egoless behavior and discusses the universality of the egoless behavior by studying cohorts from three different countries, i.e., Japan, India, and Canada. The three stages in the approach are self-assessment, peer validation, and action plan development. The paper covers the first stage of self-assssment using an instrument based on Lamont Adams Ten commandments (factors) of egoless programming, seven of the factors are general, whereas three are related to coding behavior. We found traces of universality in the egoless behavior among the three cohorts such as there was no difference in egoless behaviours between Indian and Canadian cohorts and both Indian and Japanese cohorts had difficulties in behaving in egoless manner in coding activities than in general activities.