The impact of staff turnover on software projects: The importance of understanding what makes software practitioners tick

SIGMIS CPR 2008 - Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference: Refilling the Pipeline: Meeting the Renewed Demand for Information Technology Workers

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 30-39

  Hall, Tracy ^a   Beecham, Sarah ^b   Verner, June ^c   Wilson, David ^d  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Motivation; Project success; Staff turnover

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL DATA; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; PROJECT SUCCESS; SOFTWARE PRACTITIONERS; SOFTWARE PROJECT; STAFF MOTIVATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

MOTIVATION;

EID: 57349104170     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1355238.1355245     Document Type: Conference Paper

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