[koz_]

Reminds me of when my team at bigcorp noticed that you got given a badge on your personal page for being quick to respond to code reviews. Cut to suddenly every code review being immediately responded to with the comment "got it, will review soon".

That said, it really did change the team's behaviour. Code reviews became a priority instead of something left to batch up and do later. Whether that was a positive change or not it's hard to imagine an edict from management achieving the same result.

[MatekCopatek]

Yep, +1 from me.

They put a PR reviews scoreboard on the TV that displayed a random metrics dashboard and we immediately started teasing each other about it and did more PR reviews as a consequence.

We liked it because it wasn't seen by anyone else apart from engineers taking a coffee break. Many people ignored it and noone thought less of them. If they told me a part of my bonus would be tied to my PR high score, I would be seriously demotivated.

But all in all - I think that just proves gamification works. What you're using it for is what matters in the end.

[sa46]

A programmer will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

- Napoleon