Nine software development motivation factors

November 3, 2006

Rob Walling: Nine Things Developers Want More Than Money: Rob has a good write up with a list of that he calls Rob’s Criteria for Keeping Your Developers Happy. It’s a pretty good list and I agree with most of them.

  1. Being Set Up to Succeed
  2. Having Excellent Management
  3. Learning New Things
  4. Exercising Creativity and Solving the Right Kind of Problems
  5. Having a Voice
  6. Being Recognized for Hard Work
  7. Building Something that Matters
  8. Building Software without an Act of Congress
  9. Having Few Legacy Constraints

I like the fact that he asks for people to post their scores (reminds me of the Joel Test) and I’m tempted to post a score for my current day job. However, that goes against my policy about writing about my day job (good or bad), so I won’t post anything other than I agree with a lot and wish that more managers were aware of what makes a developer tick.

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