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Motivated developers are a key to success in software development. We all know that. How to make them motivated and maintain it? What really motivates developers? Is it enough of foosball or Xbox in the office? Agnius will try to answer these questions as well as telling few secrets about Kudos which is a small piece, but yet very important, in the whole motivation puzzle.
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Kudos, Motivation & AgileAgnius Paradnikas
1 of 12 Agile principles
Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they
need, and trust them to get the job done.
Background
• Visma• Nordic company
• 158 million EUR profit
• 6000 people, 90 autonomous companies
• Product development company
• Distributed
• Visma Lietuva • A development center for Visma
• 24+ Scrum teams
• 145 geeks
Geek?
• Passionate about technology• Expert in the field• Tweak till its perfect• Early adopter• Friendly and social
Stereotype
• Ego centric• Challenging to manage• Hate bureaucracy• Anti-social
• ... because Geeks want to get things done
Environment
Software development company should be ruled by geeks
Environment
Motivation first
Environment
Environment
Hire good people, and leave them alone.- William McKnight, 3M, 1930-1940
Motivated individuals
• Treat your company as a community• Keep people busy
• Pet projects on latest technologies: • codefights.net
• Shrooms
• Different interests• TechieClub
• Travel club
• Micro team buildings
Motivated individuals
• Feed Geeks brain!• CodeMonkeys
• Books
• Mentoring
• Cross team code reviews
Motivated individuals
Geeks hire geeks
Motivated individuals
• Respect == geeks’ currency• You’ll gain respect if you get things done• Success of the project depends on how much geeks
respect each other
Motivated individuals
Can we transform respect into something tangible?
Kudos
To gain kudos is to earn respect and recognition. - UrbanDictionary.com
Kudos, how we started
• Bring a chocolate and get 1 Kudos point.
• No real value from Kudos points. Just for fun.
• The more points you have, the more respected you are.
Kudos, how we started
Kudos, scale out
• We grew and physical Kudos board had to be bigger.• There were more actions we wanted to reward each
other on:• Code review
• Pair programming
• Code Monkey presentation
• Public speaking
• Etc.
Kudos, scale out
• Physically it was hard to manage.• Came up with custom solution on the SharePoint in our
intranet.
Kudos, demo
Other tools to manage Kudos
• White board• JIRA – create feedback form• http://blogs.atlassian.com/2014/01/inside-atlassian-employee-r
ecognition-jira/
• www.KudosNow.com
How to gain Kudos points?
How to gain Kudos points?
How to gain Kudos points?
How to gain Kudos points?
How to gain Kudos points?
What’s in it for me?
• Recognition and respect from peers• Bigger motivation to do more• Fun• Real value exchanging Kudos points to gadgets or other
stuff
What’s in it for me?
• Gadgets for Kudos points
What’s in it for me?
• Workplace improvements for Kudos points (ex. height-adjustable table)
Kudos committee
• Elected annually• Owners of Kudos points system• Implementing changes in Kudos points• Approves Kudos points
What other companies do?
• Kudo box
What other companies do?
• Trophy• Weekend car (fancy)
• Chair
• Yoda
How to change your company?
Start with small changes in your team. Good examples will outgrow to company level
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