Exploring motivational differences between software developers and project managers

Authors:
Helen Sharp;Tracy Hall;Nathan Baddoo;Sarah Beecham
Affiliations:
Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom;University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom;University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom;University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom
Venue:
Proceedings of the the 6th joint meeting of the European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on The foundations of software engineering
Year:
2007

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe our investigation of the motivational differences between project managers and developers. Motivation has been found to be a central factor in successful software projects. However the motivation of software engineers is generally poorly understood and previous work done in the area is thought to be largely out-of-date. We present data collected from 6 software developers and 4 project managers at a workshop we organized at the XP2006 international conference.