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Re: Show HN: What if JIRA (Atlassian Bug tracker) had Achievements?

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Post by mikle »

I'll try and get the team to agree to try it out after the weekend. I love the idea of gamification, if it's done right.

What is really interesting is how to take gamification further. Achievements are cute as a first step, but I'm sure there is a lot of progress to be made in making a workplace's tedious tasks (like shuffling bugs in Jira) interesting.

Re: Show HN: What if JIRA (Atlassian Bug tracker) had Achievements?

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Post by scrrr »

Although the implementation looks very good (congrats) I'd like to say on a general note:

"Gamification" of software can't possibly be the right thing to do. If you can't find gratification and satisfaction in contributing to a project as it is, e.g. by fixing annoyances, improving code-base, earning money, then what are you doing in that project anyway?

I already care zero about any Stack Exchange awards or HN-Karma, because I am an adult. Don't treat me like a child.

Re: Show HN: What if JIRA (Atlassian Bug tracker) had Achievements?

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Post by mikle »

scrrr wrote: post #6

Although the implementation looks very good (congrats) I'd like to say on a general note: "Gamification" of software can't possibly be the right thing to do. If you can't find gratification and satisfaction in contributing to a project as it is, e.g. by fixing annoyances, improving code-base, earning money, then what are you doing in that project anyway? I already care zero about any Stack Exchange awards or HN-Karma…

I'm a developer. My time spent with Jira is an annoyance at best, or a hatred at worst. I can't change that. It's a good tool for our QA and PMs.

Something like this is nice to distract me. I don't think that gamification is equivalent to treating you like a child.

> "Gamification" of software can't possibly be the right thing to do

I don't think you are qualified to make this decision for the rest of the world. If this is not for you, just don't use it. The fact is that Gamification is interesting and it's too soon to pass judgment on it.

Re: Show HN: What if JIRA (Atlassian Bug tracker) had Achievements?

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Post by mironathetin »

mikle wrote: post #8
scrrr wrote: post #6

Although the implementation looks very good (congrats) I'd like to say on a general note: "Gamification" of software can't possibly be the right thing to do. If you can't find gratification and satisfaction in contributing to a project as it is, e.g. by fixing annoyances, improving code-base, earning money, then what are you doing in that project anyway? I already care zero about any Stack Exchange awards or HN-Karma…

I'm a developer. My time spent with Jira is an annoyance at best, or a hatred at worst. I can't change that. It's a good tool for our QA and PMs. Something like this is nice to distract me. I don't think that gamification is equivalent to treating you like a child. > "Gamification" of software can't possibly be the right thing to do I don't think you are qualified to make this decision for the rest of the world. If t…

"I'm a developer. My time spent with Jira is an annoyance at best, or a hatred at worst."

I support that. Jira is a feature monster. It is aimed at producing nice pie charts, percentage numbers and lists (of solved, unsolved, analyzed etc. problems). A nice toy for managers. These are probably the people who make the buy decision, so it was clever to aim jiras features at this group instead of bothering with developers needs.

Gamification of jira may simply add more entertainment options. Not a bad thing, because the less these type of managers interfere with developers work through jira, the more useful code can be written.

I could easily image to give a character to every logged-in developer and let them run through charts or hop around in bug lists. The managers may virtually shoot at them with rocket launchers or laser blasters. Not bad. Go on.

The time is not far when I don't take a job anymore because the project uses jira.

Re: Show HN: What if JIRA (Atlassian Bug tracker) had Achievements?

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Post by Strom »

scrrr wrote: post #6

Although the implementation looks very good (congrats) I'd like to say on a general note: "Gamification" of software can't possibly be the right thing to do. If you can't find gratification and satisfaction in contributing to a project as it is, e.g. by fixing annoyances, improving code-base, earning money, then what are you doing in that project anyway? I already care zero about any Stack Exchange awards or HN-Karma…

Gamification makes things more fun and I like to have fun even though I am an adult.
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