This is for questions regarding improving motivation or handling motivation problems in the team. This tag also applies to motivation issues with project managers and other stakeholders. Avoid poll-type questions.
Questions tagged [motivation]
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What value do project managers provide a software development team?
What value does a project manager bring? How do they benefit the technical members of the team who do the work (e.g., the software developers)? Why should software developers prefer to have a project manager as part of their team? What are some…
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How to manage a team member when he is serving the notice period
The notice period in our company is one month. One of my team members has quit and he is serving his one month notice period. However, it is getting difficult to get any work done from his side.
Do you guys have any tips or tricks on how to…
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How could I motivate my project team members to be self-motivated?
Some team members are self-motivated however some others is not. Non self-motivated members is slowing down the velocity of the project which cause frustration to the other members and to management.
What are best practices to motivate my project…
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How can I reward hard work without a budget to do so?
A similar question discusses cash, presents, and parties as good ways to reward project participants after successful completion of a project.
On smaller projects without a budget, and with participants that are not local, are there any ways to…
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What are good ways to stimulate and encourage yourself as Project Manager or Project Leader?
I have the impression that people (including myself, I'm not going to be ignorant) have the nature of locking themselves up if they have an 'off day'. It's a lacking of inspiration, stimulation and encouragement to go on sometimes.
Of course as a…
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How do you implement ideas from Peopleware in an early startup?
Peopleware suggests that managers should set realistic schedules and should not put overreaching pressures on developers. In an early startup with hired developers, how does one keep the competitive edge with a very fast paced culture without…
samxli
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How shall we deal with demotivation from non-core activities?
Situations where the members of the project team have tasks which are not directly related to their job positions happens quite often (especially in cross-functional teams).
According to my experience, this will always decrease the morale of the…
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How do I increase morale of a team member?
A team member no longer feels their contribution makes an impact on the overall company. How should I motivate this person?
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How to motivate a team? (software development OOP year 1 degree project)
I'm currently in college, working as part of at team for one of the CA projects.
it's a problem based learning project where we've been given a trigger and told to come up with something to represent it.We've been assigned to specific teams and…
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How does a project manager manage and motivate people that don't actually report to the PM?
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Software development team does NOT report to PM, but PM is responsible for hitting milestone dates and not exceeding budget. Sometimes, developers have to do work for other PMs, so less than 100% of their time is available.
Questions:
As…
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How to motivate a software development team that is not motivated due to a lack of interest in the product?
I am a Project Manager in my Software Engineering class for a software development project that deals with sports management. The issue I am running into is the fact that most of my development team is not very motivated to work on this project…
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