Lost in Motivation in an Agile World

This is the material I presented at Turk Telekom Group Agile Summit 2015 on 17th of September, 2015.

Transcript

1. IN AN AGILE WORLD LOST IN MOTIVATION LEMİ ORHAN ERGİN Master Software Craftsman, ACM
2. LEMİ ORHAN ERGİN Master Software Craftsman, ACM Developing software since 2001 Community Lead of Agile Turkey Founder of Software Craftsmanship Turkey Developer, Architect, Trainer, Coach, Leader Sony & eBay Alumni Managing Partner at /lemiorhan lemiorhanergin.com @lemiorhan
3. is a common problem for everyone Motivation z z z z z z
4. even for me
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. money we forget to mention
11. money Does engage us?
12. money Does engage us? The association between salary and job satisfaction is very weak.
 
 There is less than 2% overlap between pay and job satisfaction levels
13. money Does engage us? The relationship of pay with both job and pay satisfaction is pretty much the same everywhere in the world
14. money Does engage us?
15. money Does engage us? 87% of employees worldwide are not engaged at work. The world has a crisis of engagement.
16. money Does engage us? Employees earning salaries in the top half of our data range reported 
 similar levels of job satisfaction 
 to those employees earning salaries in the bottom-half of our data range
17. money does not buy engagement
18. human we are all feelings we have
19. human we have to build and use centric practices and processes
20. Lean focus on the human side of our work life to build better products Agility Craftsmanship
21. 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
22. mindset makes the difference, not the tools
23. mindset practices and characteristics of the improving motivation and culture
24. trust by default no matter how senior or experienced your team is
25. 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
26. mentor professionalism be a leader, work wisely, acquire followers and foster discipline
27. have servant fighters To remove impediments, catalyze teamwork and trust
28. foster collaboration organize brown bag sessions, work with foremen
29. allow people to invest in themselves give time and provide environment to be better at their professions
30. communicate the purpose everyone feels comfortable when they know the real purpose of what they do
31. deliver positive feedback give special importance to thank people
32. do not act like agile, live it if you are committed to change the way you work, feel responsible about it
33. pay for a better place stop cutting costs of the essentials of our profession
34. define definition of fun define nerdy rituals, feed your sense of humor, enjoy your job
35. do your job right behave ethically and reject all requests to build crap
37. work with correct people
38. 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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40. 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