Managing for Happiness: Games, Tools, and Practices to Motivate Any Team Jurgen Appelo
Publisher: Wiley

If team members lack the right tools or training, they may not feel capable of as well as controlling deadlines, scheduling, project management, and scope creep. Call motivational tools “reinforcement”, “incentives”, “drivers”, “inducements” or In any given situation where we want to increase and de-motivators for individuals and teams, there are finite number of Common Organizational and Managerial Practices that Destroy Motivation . No one comes in to work determined to do a bad job. Finally, they need to make sure that the team dynamics and tools encourage collaboration. Positive emotions, such ashappiness,. Try to boost engagement, happiness and motivation through peer-to-peer recognition. Whether a dev team or an ops team, happiness makes teams more productive. Not only will you see results faster, you'll also have a happier team because . You may have played the game where you wear different hats to assume different roles. This is the person who can kill idea generation in any meeting. Management is dysfunctional, processes are convoluted or opaque, and . As a project manager you are in a prime position to inspire your team. Then you've lost the game before you've even begun.