Software companies spend so much effort tracking productivity and velocity. What happens when you focus instead on helping everyone find happiness? This presentation was given to my team members at WellMatch, and is adapted from an earlier presentation given at DevOps Days Austin 2014.

1. WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG,
WHAT DID YOU WANT TO BE
WHEN YOU
GREW UP
SCOTT BALDWIN
CHIEF HAPPINESS OFFICER

3. I JUST WANT TO BE HAPPY

4. ANSWER THIS:
WHAT MATTERS MOST IS
________________

5. MY ANSWER:
WHAT MATTERS MOST IS
WHAT LASTS THE LONGEST

6. THINGS THAT MATTER MOST
MAKE US HAPPY

7. [We] are endowed by [our] Creator with
certain unalienable Rights ... Life,
Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
— Thomas Jefferson

8. HAPPY PEOPLE TREAT PEOPLE LIKE PEOPLE, NOT OBJECTS
DO WHAT THEY EXCEL AT, OFTEN
ACTIVELY PURSUE GOALS
MAKE GOOD FRIENDS

9. HAPPY PEOPLE ACTIVELY EXPRESS THANKFULNESS
LIVE THE LIFE THEY WANT TO LIVE
DON'T CHASE STUFF
GIVE

10. Happiness is...
a by-product of a life well lived.
— Eleanor Roosevelt

11. SO, ARE YOU
FEELING
WELL CHUFFED?

12. TRACK HAPPINESS
WE DITCHED VELOCITY

13. TEAM HAPPINESS
OFFERS: 8.5
TRANSPARENCY: 8.5
MOBILE: 9

14. POSITIVITY + EYE CONTACT =
BIOBEHAVIORAL SYNCHRONY
When positive emotions are shared and two people make eye contact,
they move to the same hidden beat and start to act as one.

15. YOU AND I NEED
3 positive emotions
TO BALANCE 1 NEGATIVE
▸ flourish at 11:1
▸ languish at 1:1

16. NEGATIVITY LIMITS US
▸ music with negative emotions
▸ is this face male or female?
▸ focused only on the task

17. POSITIVITY OPENS US
▸ music with positive emotions
▸ focus included more than the face
▸ noticed background was rotating too

18. DO IT NOW YOU CAN'T WILL YOURSELF
LOCATE ONE OF THE LEVERS TO TURN IT ON

19. DRAW YOURSELF IN
▸ What makes me lucky/blessed to be here?
▸ What's right about my circumstances?
▸ What aspect of my current circumstances
might I view as a gift to be treasured?

20. WHAT MATTERS MOST...
GIFTS TO BE TREASURED

21. AUTONOMY, MASTERY, PURPOSE
MOTIVATE US

22. AUTONOMY MAKES US FAST
BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE TO WAIT FOR
MANAGERS TO MAKE DECISIONS
CULTURE AT SPOTIFY

24. happier
PEOPLE WILL PRODUCE
HAPPIER PRODUCTS
CONWAY'S LAW (ADAPTED)

25. Happiness is the
object and design of our existence.
— Joseph Smith

26. BIT.LY/WMHAPPY