HUMAN FACTOR THE DETERMINANT FACTOR
HUMAN FACTORS: THE DETERMINANT FACTOR Human factors are the soft stuff that make or break development projects and teams in both large and small organizations. ... Excellent or poor decisions, motivated or apathetic individuals, on plan or missed plan objectives are all more examples of how human factors manifest themselves in our software development project teams. Human factors can have a tremendous impact across a spectrum of activities: from driving a car to writing a paper. ... Effectively dealing with human factors can facilitate the success of any development project. The term human factors can be defined as how the environment fits the process that is trying to be completed. Challenges to the realm of human factors are limited only by perspective, and awareness is the first step toward minimizing the negative impact human factors will have on development project. Language barriers, groupthink, and scope creep are some of the good examples of human factors that determine outcome of most project, whether software or social project, and the team’s fate. ... The groupthink behavioral phenomenon is another human factor that can make or break any development project.