As one of the crucial human aspects, individual decision-making behavior thatmay affect the quality of a software project is adaptive to the environment inwhich the individual is. However, no comprehensive reference framework of theenvironmental factors influencing individual decision-making behavior insoftware projects is presently available. This paper undertakes a systematicliterature review (SLR) to gain insight into existing studies on this topic.After a careful SLR process, 40 studies were targeted to solve this question.Based on these extracted studies, we first provided a taxonomy of environmentalfactors comprising eight categories. Then a total of 237 factors are identifiedand classified using these eight categories, and some major environmentalfactors of each category are listed in the paper. The environmental factorslisting and the taxonomy can help researchers and practitioners to betterunderstand and predict the behavior of individuals during decision making andto design more effective solutions to improve people management in softwareprojects.
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