De-motivators for software process improvement: An analysis of practitioners' views

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 23-33

  Baddoo, Nathan ^a   Hall, Tracy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

De motivators; Practitioners; Software process improvement

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; JOB SATISFACTION; PERSONNEL;

SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT (SPI);

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0038182844     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0164-1212(02)00060-2     Document Type: Article

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