kudos, motivation & agile
DESCRIPTION
Motivated people is a key to success in software development. Agnius will present ideas and principles which were used to build a successful environment to empower people and keep them motivated.TRANSCRIPT
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
• 5600 people, 90 autonomous companies
• Product development company
• Distributed
• Visma Lietuva • A development center for Visma
• 100 developers and tech QAs
• 22 teams
• 2 full time managers
Environment
Software development company should be ruled by geeks
Environment
Environment
Hire good people, and leave them alone.- William McKnight, 3M, 1930-1940
Environment
Everybody is equal
Environment
Doesn’t matter how you dress
or look
Environment
NO to open space office
Motivated individuals
Hire by yourself
Motivated individuals
Good people like to work with other good people.And they like to give Kudos to each other.
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
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
How to change your company?
Start with small changes in your team. Good examples will outgrow to company level
QA
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Discussion
• Does it sound relevant to you?• What do you do the same/different in your
company/team?• Any good ideas how to motivate people?• Kudos points – would it work in your case?
