Towards Understanding of Software Engineer Motivation in Globally Distributed Projects

Author

Steinberga, L. ; Smite, Darja

Author_Institution

Univ. of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

fYear

2011

fDate

15-18 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

117

Lastpage

119

Abstract

Motivation in software engineering is reported to be a source for performance improvement, which leads to project overall success. Since it is a soft factor and difficult to quantify it is usually neglected. Research in this field is rather scarce and outdated. On the basis of a recent systematic review of software engineers´ motivation we set an agenda for further investigation of the role of motivation in contemporary projects. As software organizations nowadays seek opportunities inherited in both - global software development (GSD) and agile projects, it is important to understand how different project environments influence motivation.

Keywords

human factors; project management; software houses; software prototyping; team working; agile projects; contemporary projects; global software development; globally distributed projects; performance improvement; software engineer motivation; software organizations; Interviews; Organizations; Productivity; Programming; Software; Software engineering; Systematics; agile teams; distributed agile teams; distributed teams; motivation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Software Engineering Workshop (ICGSEW), 2011 Sixth IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Helsinki

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1839-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4558-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICGSE-W.2011.31

Filename

6065591