agile and team motivation based on self-determination theory - using science to understand...
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Using Self-Determination Theory (modern theory of motivation) to understand how to build motivation of the team.TRANSCRIPT
Łukasz Gawlik
Manager of Software Development
Department in VSoft
Agile and team motivation based on Self-Determination Theory
Using science to understand motivation
Deci’s experiment
prof. Edward Deci
How the two groups were treated
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3
Group A No reward Reward No reward
Group B No reward No reward No reward
Self-Determination Theory - Autonomous and
Controlled motivations
Controlled motivation has
a dark side
What about salary?
Basic psychological human needs: autonomy,
competence, relatedness
Autonomy is our need to be self-directed, it is
need to have influence on our life
Agile is focused on autonomy
•Self-organizing teams
•Planning meetings
•Retrospectives
Support for autonomy
•Ask open questions and
avoid closed questions
•Be moderator
•Offer choice within the structure and understand feelings
Competence - our skills and abilities match the
difficulty of the task
Agile is focused on competence
•Coding Dojo
•Coding Retreats
•One-to-One meetings
Support for competence
•Prize the process of improvement
•Criticize problems in process
of improvement
•Show the progress
Mindset Theory
Fixed and Grow mindset
prof. Carol Dweck
Relatedness - need to be a part of something
bigger, need to feel valuable for other people
Support for relatedness
•Show the context
•Show relations between
someone’s work and other people
Summary
•Carrot and stick work in short term
and have dark side
•Autonomous motivation is more valuable
•It can be build on autonomy, competence and relatedness
•Don’t manipulate, be honest
Thank you