What do we know about developer motivation?

IEEE Software

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 92-94

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

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Management; Motivation; Software developers

Indexed keywords

HEALTH RISKS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERS; SOFTWARE PROJECTS;

MOTIVATION;

EID: 47149112933     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2008.105     Document Type: Article

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