Peter Kahn's Reviews > The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work

The Progress Principle by Teresa Amabile

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Mar 08, 12

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In the same league as "Peopleware" this book builds theories from evidence and provides scientific backing for what seems self evident.

Happy engaged people do better work and a key driver of engagement is a series of small wins. A little progress every day results in better productivity and creativity.

This is why scrum and especially Kanban have the impact they do. It also explains the benefit of the pomodoro method and even continuous integration (feedback from the build/the-work rewards the programmer continuously throughout the day).

A must read and I'm only 1/3 of the way through the book.

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