A Study on the Relationship Between Process and Motivation in Software Development Teams

The software development process usually changes between the various organizations, while some have formal and institutionalized processes, others do not have standards in development process, do not specifying in formal documents and tend to change very often. Thus, is believed that there any direct relationship between the how to work of software development teams and the motivation of their members. This study aims to analyze the influence of the software development process in the motivation of development teams. For this, interviews with software developers from different organizations using different software development processes were compared. With this, was possible to verify the influence of software process in motivation the members of the organizations and which characteristics of these processes influence in motivation of these members.