{"id":362,"date":"2012-11-10T00:31:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T05:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/acts\/?p=362"},"modified":"2012-11-11T20:03:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T01:03:52","slug":"gamification-in-software-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/acts\/2012\/11\/10\/gamification-in-software-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamification in Software Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Harvard-ATG\/Quizmo\/issues\/milestones\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/acts\/files\/2012\/11\/Picture-4.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Github Milestone\" width=\"661\" height=\"142\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-364\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGamification has been on my mind a lot lately. <\/p>\n<p>I was just doing some of my sprint planning and found myself filling out borderline excessive github issues for my project. I put all of the issues for the current sprint into aptly named milestones. So as I finish the issues in the milestone, the milestone progress bar gets filled up. I recently realized I enjoy doing this because it&#8217;s very game-like. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve turned work into a game and I think it has increased productivity and general happiness with employment. Maybe that sounds lame, but it seems true in my case, I would recommend it for most people who are finding their current work stale and are looking for some self motivation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamification has been on my mind a lot lately. I was just doing some of my sprint planning and found myself filling out borderline excessive github issues for my project. I put all of the issues for the current sprint into aptly named milestones. So as I finish the issues in the milestone, the milestone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4571,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63924,910,44593],"tags":[63996,111294,64000,26,5066,6107],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atg","category-development","category-gamification","tag-agile","tag-gamification","tag-github","tag-issues","tag-milestones","tag-sprint"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/acts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/acts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/acts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/acts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/acts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/acts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/acts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/acts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/acts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/acts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}