Carrot and Stick: that doesn’t work on Programmers

Re:Carrot and Stick: that doesn’t work on Programmers by SatvikBeri on Saturday January 07, 2017 @05:12PM (#13346948)

I found that I was getting two things from standups: knowing what people were working on, and having a natural time to ask for/offer help. So (for now) we use Geekbot, and configured it to ask everyone on the team four questions each day:

–What did you accomplish yesterday?

–What is your top priority today?

–Where can you use help/what's blocking you?

–Which of these best describes your current level of challenge: bored, relaxed, excited, frustrated?

Everyone on the team is expected to read each other's standup reports (we have 7 people.)

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Re:Carrot and Stick: that doesn’t work on Programmers by user5994461 on Saturday January 07, 2017 @07:27PM (#13347500)

Isn't it too much to have this every day?

I've found that asking people every day incentivized them to write about anything and invent stuff just to fill up the question.

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Re:Carrot and Stick: that doesn’t work on Programmers by SatvikBeri on Saturday January 07, 2017 @07:55PM (#13347578)

All the questions are optional. It's a little more than my team would like, and a little less than I would like to ask each day, so I think it's a fair compromise.

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Re:Carrot and Stick: that doesn’t work on Programmers by Drdrdrq on Sunday January 08, 2017 @02:55AM (#13348815)

Thanks for explaining! I am not sure I would want to it this way because in my experience people tend to avoid "needless" tasks (such as reading on other people's progress :)), but it's good to know nevertheless.

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Re:Carrot and Stick: that doesn’t work on Programmers by AznHisoka on Saturday January 07, 2017 @09:34PM (#13347919)

When i did something like this in my prior company I did not care at all what others wrote. i would lie to my manager that i read it but i still did not care.

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