Motivation of software professionals
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From: Tom Anderson on 5 Feb 2010 16:39 On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > That said, by definition professionals are, to some extent, in it for > the money. If they were not, they would be amateurs as I am now. Interesting. Do you think that all the non-financial rewards that are available (if rarely!) in industry are available in academia or on volunteer projects? Something i find quite enjoyable, having moved from academia into industry, is the sense that a project is actually doing something valuable, something a business thinks is worth money. Work in academia and the FOSS community can be very interesting, but a lot of it feels like farting about. tom -- I sometimes think that the IETF is one of the crown jewels in all of western civilization. -- Tim O'Reilly
From: Jedrin on 5 Feb 2010 17:35 If money was the only motivating factor wouldn't we all want to be wall street bankers instead ?
From: Malcolm Dew-Jones on 5 Feb 2010 17:33 Jedrin (jrubiando(a)gmail.com) wrote: : If money was the only motivating factor wouldn't we all want to be : wall street bankers instead ? Perhaps we all do - but until we get that chance...
From: Roedy Green on 6 Feb 2010 02:39 On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 04:23:41 -0800 (PST), Richard Cornford <Richard(a)litotes.demon.co.uk> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : > >Strange question; the most efficient motivator of professionals is >money, and money is very popular. That may be a motivator for taking a job, but I suspect is fairly far down the list for leaving a job. Leaving motivations might include: personality conflict boredom too much pressure Personally, the opportunity to do something I had never done before was always the top priority. Employers usually want people who have extensive specific experience. In hiring, my main interest was loyalty. Employees don't get really useful until after the first year. I don't expect them to hit the ground running. I anticipate investing considerable effort in training them. I looked for reasons why they would likely want to stay. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com You can�t have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families. ~ Jim McCarthy
From: Hillbilly on 6 Feb 2010 18:57
Which is why I rarely participate as they are ALWAYS FUBAR and BIASED. "Richard Cornford" <Richard(a)litotes.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:62cdf238-b5ce-4d42-aaa0-1ebe099a01d9(a)k41g2000yqm.googlegroups.com... > 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, and money is very popular. > >> As a part of the research, I am doing an online survey for >> software engineers and managers in software development. > <snip> > > This would be more convincing as an academic exercise, as opposed to, > say, spam intended to encourage visitors to some web page with the > intention of gaining advertising revenue, if there were not so many > advertisements on the page. > > In any event, your survey needs the addition of a large number of > "This question makes no sense" option checkboxes, as it is > unanswerable as it is. > > Richard. |