Human Information Processing Skills Set (HIPSS): A Leveraging Component for the Development of High Performing Team in the Software Industry

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to provide an alternative perspective and a process __ a frame and flow, as leveraging component for the development of high performing teams in many organizations and even in the software industry. The first part includes a statement with a reflection on the concept of team, a comparative review of the characteristics/qualities/benchmark of high performing teams (HPT) and the processes to build and develop them. It ends with an inference that these processes of developing HPT are drawn from behavioral and conventional mindsets of team development. The next part proceeds to identify the crucial need to reflect on the mindset underlying team development in the context of the software industry in the information age, one that calls for an alternative frame and flow to develop teams, the option that is brain-based and holistic. The last section offers a perspective __ again, a frame and flow __ called whole brain literacy (WBL) approach as one way to leverage team development enabling participants to become high-performing teams and citing projects and action researches where these have been used as part of the process interventions with positive results and outcomes.