Exploring motivational differences between software developers and project managers

ESEC/FSE'07: 6th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering - Companion Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 501-504

  Sharp, Helen ^a   Hall, Tracy ^b   Baddoo, Nathan ^b   Beecham, Sarah ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Motivation; Repertory grid technique

Indexed keywords

MOTIVATION; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

PROJECT MANAGERS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 37849051040     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1295014.1295026     Document Type: Conference Paper

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