• Go Ahead, Make My Incentive

    If you haven’t noticed, posting frequency has gone down lately because of work, but that should change soon. But I had to write about this thing that came up recently. My company was trying to come up with a way to incentivize the developers to release the app we’re working on “on time with zero defects”. One of the ways they offered up was a kind of raffle. For each hour of overtime (productive overtime, emphasis theirs), you get an entry to win a VIZIO 50″ Smart TV. I did the e-mail equivalent of laughing in their face. First of all, think about the people that work in software engineering.…