The document discusses the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality assessment. The MBTI evaluates individuals across four scales: extraversion-introversion, sensing-intuiting, thinking-feeling, and judging-perceiving. Based on an individual's preferences across these four scales, they are categorized into one of 16 personality types. The document then discusses common MBTI personality types among software engineers and project managers and provides tips for managing teams based on different personality types.

5. MBTI PERSONALITY TYPES
In the 1940s, Katharine Briggs and her daughter Isabel
Briggs Myers developed the Myers– Briggs Type Indicator
(MBTI) based on Jung ’s personality traits.
The test involves answering approximately 100 questions.

6. Test results are evaluated on four scales:
1. extroversion – introversion
2. sensing – intuiting
3. thinking – feeling
4. judging – perceiving.
The fourth scale (judging – perceiving) is not one of Jung ’ s
dimensions. Myers and Briggs included it to indicate which
of Jung ’s styles predominates and which is secondary in
the test results.
MBTI PERSONALITY TYPES

7. EXTRAVERT
OR
INTROVERT

8. MBTI PERSONALITY TYPES
Extraversion:
Being an extravert does not
mean a person does not need
his/her alone time. It simply
means that they get energy or
recharge their battery with
social activities.

9. MBTI PERSONALITY TYPES
Introversion:
Interacting with other people is
totally fine for the introvert
however it does not recharge
their battery or give energy to
them. Though some alone time
does.

10. SENSING
OR
INTUITIVE

11. MBTI PERSONALITY TYPES
Sensing:
These people are extremely detail oriented
and organized. Moreover they live in
present. They see things as they are, they
are concrete thinkers. For example asking
for direction from a sensing personality.

12. MBTI PERSONALITY
TYPES
Intuiting:
These people like to think
conceptual and precise. They
are abstract thinkers. For
example asking for direction
from a intuitive personality.

13. FEELING
OR
THINKING

14. MBTI PERSONALITY TYPES
Feeling:
These people make decisions based on values and what
feels right to them. Example how a feeling personality would
react to a beggar.

15. MBTI PERSONALITY TYPES
Thinking:
Thinkers decide based primarily on logic, and when they do
so, they consider a decision to be made. For
Example how a
thinker would
react to a beggar.

16. JUDGING
OR
PERCEIVING

17. MBTI PERSONALITY TYPES
Judging:
Judging people like order,
organization and think
sequentially. They like to have
things planned and settled they
would rather come up with five
different contingency plans than
just go ahead and deal with the
challenges as they come.

18. MBTI PERSONALITY TYPES
Perceiving:
Perceiving people are flexible, like to keep their options
open and think randomly. They like to act spontaneously and
are adaptable. Perceivers like to keep things open ended.

19. FOUR TRAITS

20. MBTI PERSONALITY TYPES
Most favorite trait.
Support the dominant trait.
Dominant
Secondary
Tertiary
Inferior

21. 16 COMBINATIONS

22. MBTI PERSONALITY TYPES
• Using the 16 combinations of extroversion –introversion,
sensing– intuiting, thinking – feeling, and judging –
perceiving, Myers and Briggs identified 16 personality
styles.
• Most people who take the MBTI test fall somewhere within
the 16 categories. However, some individuals place
somewhere between two or three different styles.

24. SOFTWARE ENGINEER AND THEIR
MBTI PERSONALITY TYPES

25. MBTI PERSONALITY TYPES
• MBTI results indicate that more than 50% of software
engineers are introverts, compared to about 25% in the
general population.
• MBTI results also indicate that software engineers are
predominately thinkers (80% to 90%) and thus more
attuned to logic and analytical reasoning and less
concerned with human relations than the general
population.

26. MBTI PERSONALITY TYPES
• The most common personality types for software
engineers are INTJ and ISTJ with an equal split between N
(intuiting) and S (sensing).
• An INTJ might be your most creative designer.
• ISTJ might be your best programmer.
• When it is possible, your projects might benefit by
including different personality types in the mix of
personalities.

27. MBTI PERSONALITY TYPES
• However, caution must be taken to avoid conflicts among
distinctly different personality types; interactions between
INTJs and ISTJs, for example, can lead to conflict.
• Other observers believe that competent software
engineers tend to fall into the NT and SJ classifications.
• for example:
NT types tend to visualize the complete solution to a problem
while SJ types tend to visualize the steps necessary to
implement the solution.

28. PROJECT MANAGER AND THEIR
MBTI PERSONALITY TYPES

29. MBTI PERSONALITY TYPES
• Some researchers believe that your style as a project
manager is most closely related to your position on the
Judging –Perceiving scale of the MBTI profile.
1. Manager can have Judging trait.
2. Manager can have Perceiving trait.

30. MANAGER AS A JUDGER

31. MBTI PERSONALITY TYPES
MANAGER AS A JUDGER:
1. Set clear, measurable goals.
2. Use divide and conquer on activities.
3. Develop a time line with milestones to monitor progress carefully,
come to closure quickly and be reluctant to change decisions.
4. Like to work in a structured environment.
5. Be motivated by achievement.
6. Want to achieve results on one project and then move on.
7. Establish rules for who makes decisions and when.
8. Trust their ability to organize the project to achieve the desired
goal.

32. MANAGER AS A PERCEIVER

33. MBTI PERSONALITY TYPES
MANAGER AS A PERCEIVER:
1. realize that a clear plan does not ensure that everything will go well.
2. stay open to changing the plan as more information becomes available.
3. find out what motivates others in addition to achievement of deadlines
(e.g., autonomy, opportunity for learning new skills).
4. develop ways to regularly scan the environment for new information or
consult with someone who does this naturally (e.g., marketing or sales
staff).
5. allow people to work in their own ways while still holding them
accountable for the final product.
6. plan for spontaneity, for example, set a time period for brainstorming
and then let the process emerge.
7. early in the process, seek feedback on the feasibility of time lines.