Happy Developer's Guide to the Galaxy: Thinking About Motivation of Developers

These are the slides of my talk at Agile Turkey Meetup #agilebulusmalar

Transcript

1. LEMİ ORHAN ERGİN Managing Partner & Master Software Craftsman, ACM thinking about motivation of developers GUIDE TO THE GALAXY HAPPY DEVELOPER’S
2. the talk will be about developers who really love their profession caution
3. is a common problem for everyone Motivation z z z z z z
4. for me too
5. improve I cannot myself Nothing excited Monotonous Hard to focus No innovation Nothing to learn
6. Feel alone work for long hours Cannot get help Blame rules No teamwork work I cannot with people
7. No trust Arguing via emails No care for feelings I am an headcount Monitored closely controlled I am like a kid
8. I FEEL unmotivated exhausted tired hopeless sad angry lazy depressed stressed alone
9. Similar?
10. I want to succeed feel valuable trust be trusted be in decisions feel improved focused be efficient learn feel proud
11. only passionate, disciplined and motivated people can continuously deliver well-crafted software and value passionate disciplined motivated
12. passionate disciplined motivated
13. motivation All you have your own preference for
14. motivation Acceptance Curiosity Power Honor Social Contact / Relatedness Idealism Status Independence / Autonomy Order Competence instrinct
15. motivation extrinct “We zombify people by using wrong practices” Niels Pflaeging Management Exorcist from his talk at Agile Turkey Summit 2014
16. managers are not responsible for our motivation
17. managers are not responsible for our motivation ??????
19. managers have to build an environment that improves motivation and happiness
20. human we have to build and use centric practices and processes
21. Lean focus on the human side of our work life to build better products Agility Craftsmanship
22. Lean Craftsmanship Agility Trust Honesty Teamwork Self-Organization Empowered Teams Continuous Improvement Retrospecting Regularly Sustainable Pace Proxy to InterRuptions Face to face Communication Collaboration Efficiency Removing Waste Pairing courage Professionalism No Blame Rule Limiting multi-tasking Mentorship Fast Feedback Loops Community of Professionals Code of Ethics Collective Ownership Practicing to Master Five Whys Slack Time
23. mindset makes the difference, not the tools
24. mindset practices and characteristics of the improving motivation and culture
26. be aware of god complexity Trial and error might be the best way most of the time Your “that’s just simple” solutions might not be realistic in real complex world
27. leave your ego you have to be ready for being motivated “Mix of youth and a bit of experience can easily lead to arrogance” Sandro Mancuso Author of “The Software Craftsman”
29. abandon learnt despairs never work on a place where you have no hope
30. innovation is about culture continuously doing the same thing does not mean doing it in the same way provide safe environment for trial and errors do experiments, do it a lot
32. stop producing mess learn how to build high quality software
34. learn your profession software development might be something different that you think
36. tools & rituals are not what concepts are all about
37. stop micro managing checking social media improves productivity
38. trust by default no matter how senior or experienced your team is
39. set goals to be proud of creativity directly bounds to purpose and constraints you have
40. watch conference videos spend 2 hours every week for watching conference videos
41. define mastery goals stop pushing performance goals for difficult problems Dr. Heidi Grant Halvorson From the book “Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals” http://amzn.com/0452297710
42. be communicator & fighters spend time to remove impediments, communicate to learn the complexity Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein
43. foster collaboration organize brown bag sessions, work with foremen pair programming code reviews mob programming lunch and learn sessions proof of concept projects enlightement talks technical backlog items community of professionals
45. invest in yourself it’s your profession, own it!
46. give back to communities what you get is what you give WYG WYG these communities do not have to be public ones
47. manage your brand define target audience write blog posts use social media effectively give back to the community attend conferences contribute to open source . .
49. don’t be the guy in the corner
50. deliver positive feedback give special importance to thank people
51. ask responsiblity of what you create don’t act as if you do, ask for re design architecture code testing deployment monitoring
52. pay for a better place stop cutting costs of the essentials of our profession confotable chairs at least 1 monitor large enough desk fresh air silent area day light licenses for your tools
53. document for the next developer Commit messages Branch names Commit graph Production code Test code Flow diagrams API documentation Release notes Code review comments
54. define definition of fun define nerdy rituals, feed your sense of humor, enjoy your job
55. never work for bad behave unethical treat people as resources treat you as a dummy wheel insensible to your feelings ill intensioned you lost your hope
56. Blizzard developers John Lagrave, Ion Hazzikostas, David Kim, and Kaeo Milker are signing autographs at the Blizzard booth at Developer Signing Sessions! gamescon2012
57. work with correct people
58. ENJOY remember whatever you do do not forget to https://www.flickr.com/photos/fraserspeirs/3394902061 Joe O'Brien and Jim Weirich while doing ruby code review
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60. Lemİ orhan ergİn agile software craftsman /lemiorhan https://www.linkedin.com/in/lemiorhan @lemiorhan https://twitter.com/lemiorhan /lemiorhan http://www.slideshare.net/lemiorhan lemiorhanergin.com Official site having personal information www.acm-software.com