Yesterday, one of my friends forwarded me the link to very interesting presentation on motivation factors, and I want to share it with you. The style is really impressive, and some findings are quite surprising:
Few years ago, I wrote about Self-Motivation indicating that beginners are more motivated because they want to be recognized. The video above describes it as the natural need of mastery.
Does it mean that quick salary growth can kill this need of perfecting oneself and reduce both performance and personal value significantly?
Monday, June 28, 2010
Saturday, April 24, 2010
What happens to task board stickers when a sprint finishes
What do you do with completed story stickers when a sprint finishes? I believe that most people just throw they away.
Some time ago when I was visiting one of our scrum teams, I noticed the following scrum rose, which illustrated amount of user stories completed during the sprint:
More petals this flower has means more stories completed during the sprint. When there are several scrum teams working on the same project, they can even use such roses to illustrate overall project progress and dynamic during recent sprints.
Disclaimer: the picture was taken without permission from that particular development team. So I'll remove the article if any team member asks me to do it.
Some time ago when I was visiting one of our scrum teams, I noticed the following scrum rose, which illustrated amount of user stories completed during the sprint:
More petals this flower has means more stories completed during the sprint. When there are several scrum teams working on the same project, they can even use such roses to illustrate overall project progress and dynamic during recent sprints.Disclaimer: the picture was taken without permission from that particular development team. So I'll remove the article if any team member asks me to do it.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
IT Salaries in Belarus (Year 2009)
Long time since my previous post... Well, as it was expected year 2009 was a busy one, and it brought a set of changes both to IT industry and IT labor market.
Beginning of January is a good time to look back at the previous year, so I'm publishing updated salary statistics that was collected from Belarus software development companies.
While combining this statistics I have not been using any materials available in public domain, so do not be surprised that provided charts are significantly different from information available on dev.by and some other web sites. Yet, several sentences, which explain the meaning of the charts, were copied from one of my previous posts on the same topic.
The first image contains two curves, that reflect proportion of the actual salary values in comparison to the maximum value reached during this period of time. Please note, that two lines differ only in the rate between USD and Euro currencies.
As we can see, average salary in USD/EUR equivalent returned to the level it was 2 years ago.
The second chart shows salary growth level for different categories of expertise. In the terms of this article, the following terminology is being used:
On the next chart, you can see how much IT people earns in comparison to Experts' salaries. Please keep in mind, that Expert's salary doesn't mean highest possible salary in the industry. In this data, it's the average among IT professionals having strong experience in particular area.
As it was stated above, the difference between Experts' salary level and other levels of expertise was increasing during the last year and a half.
The next two images take into account the level of inflation. It might look strange, but last year (2009) was better than 2008 for most IT specialists in terms of the purchase power. Average salaries in USD went about 12.5% down, but local currency exchange rate changed much more outrunning the inflation.
The last chart shows, how the salary grows while a person gets her/his IT experience. Red line uses historical data from the previous graph. Blue line uses only up-to-date salaries and assumes that they are not changing through time for each level of IT employee expertise.
NO charts or source data from this article can be re-republished without written permission from Serge Stepantsov, this blog author.
Beginning of January is a good time to look back at the previous year, so I'm publishing updated salary statistics that was collected from Belarus software development companies.
While combining this statistics I have not been using any materials available in public domain, so do not be surprised that provided charts are significantly different from information available on dev.by and some other web sites. Yet, several sentences, which explain the meaning of the charts, were copied from one of my previous posts on the same topic.
The first image contains two curves, that reflect proportion of the actual salary values in comparison to the maximum value reached during this period of time. Please note, that two lines differ only in the rate between USD and Euro currencies.
As we can see, average salary in USD/EUR equivalent returned to the level it was 2 years ago.
The second chart shows salary growth level for different categories of expertise. In the terms of this article, the following terminology is being used:
- beginner - entry level technician (0 years of experience);
- specialist - intermediate level (1-2 years of experience in particular area);
- professional - advanced level (3-4 years of experience in particular area);
- expert - a professional with 5 or more years of experience in particular area.
On the next chart, you can see how much IT people earns in comparison to Experts' salaries. Please keep in mind, that Expert's salary doesn't mean highest possible salary in the industry. In this data, it's the average among IT professionals having strong experience in particular area.
As it was stated above, the difference between Experts' salary level and other levels of expertise was increasing during the last year and a half.
The next two images take into account the level of inflation. It might look strange, but last year (2009) was better than 2008 for most IT specialists in terms of the purchase power. Average salaries in USD went about 12.5% down, but local currency exchange rate changed much more outrunning the inflation.
The last chart shows, how the salary grows while a person gets her/his IT experience. Red line uses historical data from the previous graph. Blue line uses only up-to-date salaries and assumes that they are not changing through time for each level of IT employee expertise.
NO charts or source data from this article can be re-republished without written permission from Serge Stepantsov, this blog author.
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