We are driven people, not job descriptions

We are driven people, not job descriptions

Experiment

• The first two people that high five each other, both get 20 euro’s.

Fin Kingma

• Agile Tester / Scrum Master

• Testing not just products People

• Fascinated by: What drives us

Contents

• The puzzle

• Benefits of Intrinsic Motivation

• Drawbacks of Intrinsic Motivation

• Personal example

• Conclusion

The puzzle

The candle problem

The candle problem

NeocortexRational

Limbic brainDecision

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“Once you only act according to who you are, you are Intrinsically Motivated.”

– Fin Kingma

Benefits of Intrinsic Motivation

Self awareness

Proactive

Enabling creativity

Become a motivated individual instead of a job description

Build projects around motivated individuals.

Give them the environment and support they need, and

trust them to get the job done.

Build projects around motivated individuals.Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.

• Self awareness = what environment / support do you need?

• Proactive + creativity = getting the job done

• Become a motivated individual

Drawbacks of Intrinsic Motivation

Selfish behavior

Lack of direction

Solution

Your personalDrive

(still MotivatedIndividual)

Personal example

Who am I?

• Goal-oriented in everything I do.

• Curious to all I do not (yet) understand.

• Competitive when being challenged.

• Creative in finding solutions.

• Helpful to people that I trust.

I want to find the limits of every product I use, person I meet and push my own limits. I want to intrinsically motivate people to stimulate them into making their own decisions and become less dependent of external factors, or people that decide for them.

What do I Want?

• Goal-oriented in everything I do.

• Curious to all I do not (yet) understand.

• Competitive when being challenged.

• Creative in finding solutions.

• Helpful to people that I trust.

I want to find the limits of every product I use, person I meet and push my own limits. I want to intrinsically motivate people to stimulate them into making their own decisions and become less dependent of external factors, or people that decide for them.

When do I help?

• Goal-oriented in everything I do.

• Curious to all I do not (yet) understand.

• Competitive when being challenged.

• Creative in finding solutions.

• Helpful to people that I trust.

I want to find the limits of every product I use, person I meet and push my own limits. I want to intrinsically motivate people to stimulate them into making their own decisions and become less dependent of external factors, or people that decide for them.

I, Fin Kingma, am:

• Goal-oriented in everything I do.

• Curious to all I do not (yet) understand.

• Competitive when being challenged.

• Creative in finding solutions.

• Helpful to people that I trust.

I want to find the limits of every product I use, person I meet and push my own limits. I want to intrinsically motivate people to stimulate them into making their own decisions and become less dependent of external factors, or people that decide for them.

Conclusion

Succesful Agile relies on

motivated individuals

To become a motivated individual, you need to

understand your personal drive and act according to it.

Thanks!

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Blog: www.finkingma.com

References

Dan H Pink – Drive

Richard Ryan & Edward Deci – Self Determination Theory

Simon Sinek – Start with Why

Dr Steven Reiss – http://www.reissprofile.eu/