Motivation of software professionals
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From: MarkusSchaber on 5 Feb 2010 10:52 On 5 Feb., 13:23, Richard Cornford <Rich...(a)litotes.demon.co.uk> wrote: > On Feb 5, 11:19 am, Stefan Kiryazov wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > I am doing a research about motivation in software development, > > the most efficient practices to motivate software engineers, > > their popularity, etc. > > Strange question; the most efficient motivator of professionals is > money, [...] This was proven wrong by Science. Read Bruce Eckels excellent blog entries about this topic, he always references relliable sources on this subject.
From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn on 5 Feb 2010 11:21 Richard Cornford wrote: > On Feb 5, 11:19 am, Stefan Kiryazov wrote: >> I am doing a research about motivation in software development, >> the most efficient practices to motivate software engineers, >> their popularity, etc. > > Strange question; the most efficient motivator of professionals is > money, and money is very popular. That would mean that the more you are paid, the more motivated you are, which is obviously wrong. Money is only part of the equation. Money is a factor of motivation in capitalism only because of the things that money can buy, and which it means to others. But those things can be gained without money as well, so you would probably be equally motivated if someone provides them for work you have done. See, e.g., Maslow's hierarchy of needs. F'up2 poster PointedEars -- var bugRiddenCrashPronePieceOfJunk = ( navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE 5') != -1 && navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Mac') != -1 ) // Plone, register_function.js:16
From: Tom Anderson on 5 Feb 2010 11:44 On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Richard Cornford wrote: > On Feb 5, 11:19 am, Stefan Kiryazov wrote: > >> I am doing a research about motivation in software development, >> the most efficient practices to motivate software engineers, >> their popularity, etc. > > Strange question; the most efficient motivator of professionals is > money, and money is very popular. There's a robust body of work that suggests this is very much *not* the case. Money motivates some people; technical people are more motivated by interesting work and respect from their colleagues. tom -- It is a formal cultural policy to show unreasonable bias towards any woman who is both attractive and weird.
From: Pitch on 5 Feb 2010 12:06 In article <xn0gq13rbbkcmzl000(a)msnews.microsoft.com>, jgaines_newsid(a)yahoo.co.uk says... > > On 05/02/2010 in message > <dabc5b6d-f342-466a-a4b6-8e7034956bd4(a)a32g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> Stefan > Kiryazov wrote: > > >I am doing a research about motivation in software development, the > >most efficient practices to motivate software engineers, their > >popularity, etc. > > M O N E Y for me it's women. ;) -- stirr your cofee properly
From: Saga on 5 Feb 2010 13:53
"Stefan Ram" <ram(a)zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote in message news:selection-20100205175941(a)ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de... > Stefan Kiryazov <stefan.kiryazov(a)gmail.com> writes: >>http://ask.wizefish.com/en/MotivationSurvey.aspx > > This survey has a strong selection bias: > > Real professionals are motivated by the money. > > But those motivated by money will not attend > the survey as they are not being paid for it. And those not motivated by money will also not attend the survey because they'll think it is offensive, catagorizing them as "non professional" simply because they are not motivated by money. Saga |