An initial investigation of software practitioners' motivation

Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects on Software Engineering, CHASE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 84-91

  Sharp, Helen ^a   Hall, Tracy ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY IS; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; KEY ELEMENTS; LITTLE RESEARCH; PROJECT PRODUCTIVITY; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERS; SOFTWARE PRACTITIONERS; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; JOB SATISFACTION; MOTIVATION; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

ENGINEERING EXHIBITIONS;

EID: 70349753047     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CHASE.2009.5071418     Document Type: Conference Paper

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