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ABSTRACT This paper seeks to explore how personality, analyzed across neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and responsibility, may impact the success of software production. We conducted an experiment to analyze which personality dimensions could predict success in software development, measured as effectiveness. The personality variables were assessed using a NEO PI‐R questionnaire, while the response variable was the percentage of success in the developed software product. The experiment was conducted within a family of experiments with two replications, involving 41 subjects in one and 40 subjects in the other. All participants were students enrolled in a software engineering course at the University of Valencia. The experimental tasks involved the analysis, design, and implementation of a software system from scratch, employing the Rational Unified Process and Java. The empirical study results indicate that conscientiousness (including order and dutifulness) and openness (in terms of generating ideas) are correlated with the success of the project.
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