Motivation of software professionals
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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: Andrew Thompson on 5 Feb 2010 12:50 On Feb 5, 10:19 pm, Stefan Kiryazov <stefan.kirya...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >..I am doing a research about motivation in software development, .. Pizza. Preferably with lots of coke thrown in, and a dark room where we don't have to encounter the end-users. >..Also, if someone is running a web site or blog dedicated to any aspect > of software development we can do some link exchange. No thanks. -- Andrew T. pscode.org
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
From: Tom Anderson on 5 Feb 2010 16:35 On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Andrew Thompson wrote: > On Feb 5, 10:19�pm, Stefan Kiryazov <stefan.kirya...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> ..I am doing a research about motivation in software development, .. > > Pizza. Preferably with lots of coke thrown in, and a dark room where > we don't have to encounter the end-users. But where we 'encounter' hookers to snort the coke off. Andrew, we are as of one mind on this matter. tom -- I sometimes think that the IETF is one of the crown jewels in all of western civilization. -- Tim O'Reilly
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 |