Throughout the history of software engineering, the human aspects have repeatedly been
recognized as important. Even though research that investigates them has been growing in …

Requirements Engineering (RE) requires the collaboration of various roles in SE, such as
requirements engineers, stakeholders and other developers, and it is thus a very highly …

For more than thirty years, it has been claimed that a way to improve software developers'
productivity and software quality is to focus on people and to provide incentives to make …

Human Affectiveness, ie, The emotional state of a person, plays a crucial role in many
domains where it can make or break a team's ability to produce successful products …

Evaluating the Demand for Soft Skills in Software Development Page 1 44 IT Pro January/February
2012 Published by the IEEE Computer Society 1520-9202/12/$31.00 © 2012 IEEE FEATURE …

It's common sense to state that the production of any software product involves a human
element, at least to some extent. We all have different personality traits, and the way we …

We review the literature relating to soft skills and the software engineering and information
systems domain before describing a study based on 650 job advertisements posted on well …

CONTEXT:: Successful software development and management depends not only on the
technologies, methods and processes employed but also on the judgments and decisions of …

Software engineering is a socio-technical endeavor, and while many of our contributions
focus on technical aspects, human stakeholders such as software developers are directly …

Software engineering (SE) research lacks theory and methodologies for addressing human
aspects in software development. Development tasks are undertaken through cognitive …