How can the project manager incorporate gamification into your management work?

Hi Rami:
It’s an interesting application, security is a very important and the gamification may consolidate the prevention attitude. I think that gamification would be usefull to motivate the communication and de documentation of the project including learning lessons to make the best practices and incorporate then to organization or project knowledge base.
Do you collect some rules, best practices and recommendations for future projects?

Hi team,

How gamification can be applied where the nature of work is purely site oriented (Metro Construction/ Pipeline construction)..,

Hi Rami,

gamification is great (and most often used) to increase compliance. The main reason: To gamify a process, that is to create a context that drives a specific desired behavior, it is very helpful to be able to clearly define the desired behavior.

The more operational a task, the easier it is to gamify. This is the main reason why the majority of gamification applications are found in areas with very low complexity of tasks, e.g. in call centers ("follow the script"), operating software ("enter all information correctly/timely"), marketing ("click this button"), etc.

In addition, "being compliant" is typically not the most exciting of activities and benefits most from some extra motivation...

Hi Karthik
This is an important part of gamification the extrinsic motivation promoted by some kind of reward (material reward). There is a great challenge today in promoting conditions to people have intrinsic motivation, some kind of internal force that make us to act spontaneously and with enjoyment and fun. As you can see it's a big challenge! Both aspects are important and a good project must make the choices and balancing according to each specific situation. The situations you described are very valuable experience to add others important behavioral traits and then improve your projects. Congratulations!

Of course, lessons learned are very important for the success of future projects.

Hi Jose

I suggest being very careful if it comes to extrinsic motivation and material rewards. Especially monetary awards are known to backfire (see http://bit.ly/DanPinkDriveRSAYoutube).

Gamification is purely about intrinsic motivation. You want to engage people by satisfying needs. Of course, you will not get along without a layer of extrinsic rewards, the famous "points, badges, and leaderboards".

The crucial point is that the visible (and manageable) elements of a gamified system are not the MOTIVES for action, but the MEDIA for feedback. You are e.g. driven by the (intrinsic) desire for mastery, and the (extrinsic) points and badges you earned are an indication of the level you have already reached. Your (intrinsic) motivator may be to relate with other people, and the (extrinsic) indicator of the size of your network will demonstrate how connected you are.

Simply adding a layer of visible gamification elements without targeting intrinsic needs will most often still work in the short run (people are always curious), but most likely fails in the long run...

Hi Wolfgang
I completely agree with your comments. They are very important!
In my research I’m trying to use a Structural Equations Model to detect the influence of factors like immersion, playfulness, enjoyment, socialization on the attitude and intention to action (knowledge sharing in the community ProjectManagementCom.
I submitted a survey to members of this community but quantity of participants is not yer sufficient to run the statistics. I appreciate if you could help me answering the questionnaire and if is possible inviting some people of your network to collaborate with this research
The link to my survey is:

http://feibr.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_eyUDjz8z68w6N3T

I thank you very much!

Hi Jose

I just filled out your questionnaire. As I have only recently joined the community, my experience is limited which is being reflected in some of my answers... I hope it helps anyway. Good luck with your research!
Best
Wolfgang

Very good question!
In my opinion, gamification is useful in non structured contexts, activities in with the human interaction and the attention is essential, like the Rami's application in security and in people motivation, both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.

Hi Thirukkumaran, here is a great (and very simple) example of gamification in a factory environment: http://bit.ly/2lzSQ8f

Can you provide a more detailed description of this game. It sounds interesting.
Tom

Hi Wolfgang
I completely agree with your comments. They are very important!
In my research I’m trying to use a Structural Equations Model to detect the influence of factors like immersion, playfulness, enjoyment, socialization on the attitude and intention to action (knowledge sharing in the community ProjectManagementCom.
I submitted a survey to members of this community but quantity of participants is not yer sufficient to run the statistics. I appreciate if you could help me answering the questionnaire and if is possible inviting some people of your network to collaborate with this research
The link to my survey is:

http://feibr.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_eyUDjz8z68w6N3T

I thank you very much!