Key Success Factors in Personnel Motivating Projects

The number of projects’ failures is permanently increasing despite of all modern attempts to keep projects under control. Dependable software development has become an important technique to move towards in order to improve the situation. A key success issue on this road is developing personnel into a team of highly professional, loyal and attached to the organisation people. Unfortunately the software industry is a highly technological sector with a shortness of personnel resources in many countries. There are many examples when employees do leave companies despite all common motivating approaches used in the organisation. The paper proposes establishing special, so called motivating, projects to address employees’ needs to develop themselves by learning something new that can be challenging for them. At the same time it is important to understand all hidden dangers of running such projects in order to achieve the defined goal since otherwise employees could be rather unmotivated, stressed and even decide to leave the company. Fortunately some fairly simple approaches and methods described in this article allow ensuring success of the motivating projects and let focus on the true goal on the organisation evolution road. Key-Words: Dependable software, personnel motivating, software engineering, key success factors