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This document discusses how focusing on employee happiness can benefit companies. It provides several "happiness recipes" that include having a clear purpose, social recognition, a sense of control, and seeing progress. Having a purpose means being part of something bigger than yourself. Social recognition involves feeling important and gaining recognition from others. Control relates to having autonomy over one's work. Seeing progress provides feedback and a sense of impact. The document also discusses how practices like extreme programming can incorporate these happiness elements through having a shared system metaphor and vision, pair programming, collective code ownership, and releasing software frequently in small batches.
happiness_2023.pdf
- 1. Agile happiness Mail: f.lombardo69@gmail.com Twitter:f_lombardo GitHub: f-lombardo Linkedin: /in/francolombardo/ Franco Lombardo
- 2. Why should acompany worry about happiness?
- 3. Happiness ROI 1) Productivity 2)Health 3) Turnover 4) Happiness of a company spreads to its customers
- 4. “…to love whatYou command and to desire what You promise” Liturgy For The Fifth Sunday of Easter
- 5. Happiness recipe 1) Purpose 2)Social recognition 3) Control 4) Progress Delivering Happiness – Tony Hsieh Stimulus Impediment
- 6. Happiness recipe 2 1)Purpose 2) Mastery 3) Autonomy Drive – Daniel H. Pink Stimulus Impediment
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- 8. Path to mastery 1)Believe you can become a master 2) Work hard 3) Understand you'll never be a master
- 9. Happiness recipe 1) Purpose Beingpart of something bigger than yourself (No, increasing company’s revenue is not a purpose, if you are not a shareholder)
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- 11. Next slides areconfidential…
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- 13. Why doesn’t moneywork? (For creative jobs) 1) Pressure - Narrows our perspective - Short term thinking
- 14. Why doesn’t moneywork? (For creative jobs) 2) Turns fun activities into work (Sawyer effect) “Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.” Mark Twain
- 15. Why doesn’t moneywork? (For creative jobs) 3) Bad behaviour (Cobra effect)
- 16. Happiness recipe 2) Socialrecognition “The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.” John Dewey
- 17. Happiness recipe 2) Socialrecognition “Everything you and I do springs from two motives: the sex urge and the desire to be great.” Sigmund Freud
- 18. Happiness recipe 3) Control “Vindica te tibi ” “Claim the property of yourself” Seneca
- 19. Happiness recipe 3) Control Autonomy: Aὐτό(auto) "self" νόµος (nomos) "law" vs. Αστυνοµία: Αστυ (Asty) city
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- 23. Happiness recipe 4) Progress Theproof of our impact on the world The feedback loop should be short
- 24. When are youhappy?
- 26. 1) Purpose Very clear: savethe world from aliens
- 27. 2) Social recognition Your name inthe “Best players list”
- 28. 3) Control Clear rules, Shoot,shoot, shoot!!!
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- 33. 1) Purpose Planning game+ Whole team = developers and customers have a shared vision
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- 35. 2) Social recognition Planninggame = every single member of the team plays the planning game
- 36. 2) Social recognition Pairprogramming
- 38. 2) Social recognition Collectivecode ownership
- 39. 2) Social recognition Codingstandards defined by the team
- 40. 2) Control Sustainable pace “Sat'ha ghee presa, và pian” - If you are in a hurry, go slowly
- 41. 3) Control TDD Refactoring Continuous integration Simpledesign Planning game
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- 44. There are hiddenreasons in what we do and how we do it. We should try to understand them better
- 45. “A game isan ongoing series of complementary transactions progressing to a well-defined, predictable outcome. It is a recurring set of transactions… with a concealed motivation” Eric Berne