day-1-session-5.md

Chief Fun Officer (Suggested was a back alley knife fight to figure out who gets the CFO title, the Chief Financial Officer or the Chief Fun Officer)

Team fun master - to make sure people are having fun on sub-teams of an org or a department

Fun certificates - for being more fun!

Funtinum

How to have Fun:

Steps to having fun and potentially increasing performance by 31%:

0.5. Stop prohibiting fun

1. Find the unfun things and get rid of them

   • Are you spending less than 50% of your time programming?

   • @jesslynnrose <-- good tweets

   • Schedule pair programming to block meetings

   • #noestimates I like this hashtag

   • TDD is fun, it's also easily gamified, it pretty much is a game already

   • Automate boring things

2. Add fun!

   • Breaks with exercise are a good thing.

   • Can our job be fun? Sure, ops is fun puzzle time and programming is similar

   • Gamification can help to turn goals into prizes

   • This example was given: A team was promised 1 free lunch for increasing test coverage by a certain amount and 10 years of tech debt was resolved in a month (I think, could have been another amount of time)

3. Gamification is such a good reward it will make people rush or do wrong things intentionally to get the reward

   • Tell people you're gamifing their work so that they don't feel tricked when you provide the reward.

   • Mandatory fun:

     • People don't like mandatory fun
     • How do you know you're having fun if you're not measuring it?
     • How to ruin an office party? Take attendance