Making sense of software development and personality types

IT Professional

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 6-13

  Capretz, Luiz Fernando ^a   Ahmed, Faheem ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Diversity in software development; Human factors in software engineering; IT workforce; MBTI; Personality types; Software psychology

Indexed keywords

HUMAN FACTORS; HUMAN FACTORS IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; IT WORKFORCE; PERSONALITY TYPES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE PSYCHOLOGY;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LIFE CYCLE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SPREADSHEETS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 77249102088     PISSN: 15209202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MITP.2010.33     Document Type: Article

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