Paper Info
Title
How Temporal Work Styles and Product Modularity Influence Software Quality and Job Satisfaction.
Abstract
This paper investigates how two key outcomes in software development-software quality and job satisfaction of software developers-are influenced by product modularity and developers' temporal work style, i.e., the preferences for completing the bulk of work closer to the deadlines. We argue that high deadline orientation positively interacts with product modularity to influence software quality and job satisfaction of developers. An empirical test using a unique data set on more than 140 software developers working at a large global software vendor confirms our hypotheses. We contribute to the literature on software development by showing that software quality and job satisfaction can be increased by matching the fit between technological characteristics of the software product and people factors (i.e., the preferred temporal work style of developers). Our study has wider implications for literature on temporal work styles and product modularity and can be informative for practitioners who are tasked with hiring or allocating software developers for software products with varying modularity.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2890602.2890608
CPR
Keywords
Field
DocType
Software development, software quality, job satisfaction, deadline orientation, modularity
Personal software process,Software documentation,Computer science,Knowledge management,Software quality control,Software quality management,Software quality,Team software process,Software development,Social software engineering
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
12
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jens Förderer100.34
Thomas Kude29416.18
Sunil Mithas392350.57
Armin Heinzl461777.80