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Ask HN: How to best motivate website agency?

2 points by jamesbooth ↗ HN
I am having the hardest time to get the agency and programmers to stay on top of and on schedule with our website build. We are happy with some things they are delivering but are finding it very hard to keep them on task and on time. Do you have any tricks or tips that have worked for you in motivating an agency or developer that might be a creative approach we could take to nurture this relationship and get things back on track? Please share your experience or ideas.

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9wzYQbTYsAIc
Gamification / token economies have been studied in scenarios such as this.

Things to seriously consider: Do you want them to be motivated by personal gain or be motivated by passion? Which employees are currently motivated by personal gain and which are currently motivated by passion? Which projects might require extra consideration to be considered motivating and which projects might be worked on for free?

https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/GoAtlassian/the-extraordin...

https://accessibleaba.com/blog/token-economy

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C50&q=tok...

jamesbooth
Thanks for sharing these insights. Gamification is an interesting suggestion I had not even thought about. In our situation we are having a hard time since money and integrity are not motivators so far.
9wzYQbTYsAIc
You’re welcome.

Sounds like fun might be the go-to motivator then. Try finding ways to provide fun at the end of every task or sprint.

9wzYQbTYsAIc
A random sprint bonus check every now and again wouldn’t hurt, I’m sure.