What do software practitioners really think about project success: An exploratory study

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 194-203

  Procaccino, J Drew ^a   Verner, June M ^b,e   Shelfer, Katherine M ^c,f   Gefen, David ^d  

^a RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b National Information Computing and Technology Australia   (Australia)

^c Drexel University   (United States)

^d DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

^f Drexel's Competitive Intelligence Certificate Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Motivation; Project success; Software development; Software practitioners

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; JOB ANALYSIS; MOTIVATION; PRODUCTIVITY; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

PROJECT SUCCESS; SOFTWARE PRACTITIONERS; SYSTEMS ANALYSTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 22944448392     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2004.12.011     Document Type: Article

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