Abstract—This research examined how team cognition emerges and develops to affect problem solving and team creativity using longitudinal analysis. As a result, the carryover effects of team cognition, problem solving, and team creativity from one period to another are significant. Furthermore, our findings show that transactive memory system (TMS) of team cognition is indeed a very important factor that influences team creativity through problem solving during software development process. The results also suggest that TMS can indeed improve team creativity. For project managers, understanding the above constructs is crucial to achieve high team creativity in ISD context.

Index Terms—Longitudinal study, information systems development, team processes, team cognition, problem solving.

The authors are with Department of Information Management, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, No. 1, Nan-Tai St, Yung-Kang City, Tainan County 71005, Taiwan R.O.C. (email: shiang@stust.edu.tw).

Cite: Mei-Hsiang Wang, Tarng-Yao Yang, "The Impact of Team Processes on Team Creativity in Software Development Setting: A Longitudinal Study," International Journal of e-Education, e-Business, e-Management and e-Learning vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 18-25, 2019.