Exploring motivational differences between software developers and project managers

Helen Sharp, Tracy Hall, Nathan Baddoo, Sarah Beecham

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe our investigation of the motivational differences between project managers and developers. Motivation has been found to be a central factor in successful software projects. However the motivation of software engineers is generally poorly understood and previous work done in the area is thought to be largely out-of-date. We present data collected from 6 software developers and 4 project managers at a workshop we organized at the XP2006 international conference.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication6th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2007
Pages501-504
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes
Event6th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the 14th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2007 - Dubrovnik, Croatia
Duration: 3 Sep 20077 Sep 2007

Publication series

Name6th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2007

Conference

Conference6th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the 14th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2007
Country/TerritoryCroatia
CityDubrovnik
Period3/09/077/09/07

Keywords

  • Motivation
  • Repertory grid technique

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