SOHCO: A Strategy for Constructing Efficient Teams

Abstract

Software engineering is concerned with organizational issues, project management, and human behavior. In the process of constructing a work team, leadership faces the task of evaluating the talents and abilities of each professional and combining them into a cohesive unit that matches the profile of the project. This article describes the SOHCO technique, a strategy for forming work teams that calculates a score for each candidate based on the project profile, as well as a ranking for the work team whose desired objective most closely aligns with the project profile. This article presents exploratory research, an experiment, two real-world case studies, and a comparison of methods using WS and RW coefficients to assess ranking consistency and similarity. Results reveal that SOHCO makes constructing a work team more objective, reduces leadership effort, enhances the ability to evaluate new team arrangements, increases the probability of project success, and reduces training costs. As a limitation, the SOHCO method does not take sub-criteria weights into account.