F. Steffens, S. Marczak, F. Figueira Filho, Christoph Treude, Leif Singer, D. Redmiles, B. Al-Ani. Using Gamification as a Collaboration Motivator for Software Development Teams: A Preliminary Framework. In Proceedings of the Brazilian Symposium in Collaborative Systems. 2015.
Gamification is the use of game elements in non-game context to engage and to motivate people to achieve goals. Its use is becoming very popular in software development organizations due to work being based upon human-centric and brain-intensive activity. This paper presents the topics of collaboration and gamification in the context of software engineering, and proposes a framework that identifies the most common collaboration issues that affect software development teams, and how to apply game elements to motivate a change on their behaviors.