Gamification and software development

Just watched this video on gamification. Great introduction to the impact it could have. I’ve seen some gamification in software development, but there’s room for a lot more. Hudson has a game plugin, which scores developers based on the quality of their checkins. Statsvn is also something which could easily be turned into a game.

Imagine all the points you can score during software development. Points for todos and features committed. Points for documentation completed, points for user stories completed. Points for succesful deployments, points for completed automated acceptance tests.

Put all the points on a big leaderboard on thr wall and your entire day is filled with fun: games and (planning) poker

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