What makes software engineers go that extra mile?

Sach, Rien; Sharp, Helen and Petre, Marian (2011). What makes software engineers go that extra mile? In: 23rd Annual Psychology of Programming Interest Group 2011, 6-8 Sep 2011, York, UK.

Abstract

Current research suggests that motivation factors in software engineering are evolving and that our current understanding of motivation in software engineering is out of date. In this paper an analysis of semi-structured interviews with 13 professional software engineers is presented. The data suggests that „the work‟ makes software engineers go that extra mile and that „people‟ are important, but that „obstacles‟ really sap the energy of software engineers.

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• Item ORO ID
• 30431
• Item Type
• Conference or Workshop Item
• Keywords
• motivation; interviews; software engineers
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
  Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Computing and Communications
• Research Group
• Centre for Research in Computing (CRC)
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• © 2011 The Authors
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• • http://www.ppig.org/workshops/23rd-progr...(Other)
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• Rien Sach