{"id":1048,"date":"2014-06-20T11:46:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T18:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Polarion-Blog\/Gamification-Extension-Now-Available\/ba-p\/380884"},"modified":"2026-03-26T05:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:34:15","slug":"gamification-extension-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/gamification-extension-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamification Extension Now Available!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H2>What is Gamification?<\/H2><br \/>\nGamification is a new concept, developed by the inventor of Automotive Spice, Alec Dorling.<\/p>\n<p>Gamification is all about increasing&nbsp;motivation. In principle the concept tells that&nbsp;people can be motivated to do painful&nbsp;daily jobs&nbsp;by using a few key factors:<br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n\t<LI>Getting benefits for achieving special goals or performing specified actions (points, trophies &amp; benefits)<\/LI><br \/>\n\t<LI>Increasing own possibilities (through levels,&nbsp;increased permissions)<\/LI><br \/>\n\t<LI>Comparing them self&nbsp;to others (statistics)<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\nThese basic motivational factors can be used for a wide variety of situations and scenarios, so we from Polarion though it can also increase the user experience for an&nbsp;ALM solution like Polarion!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<H2>What&#8217;s in the (Extension) Box?<\/H2><br \/>\nThe <a title=\"Download Extension\" href=\"http:\/\/extensions.polarion.com\/extensions\/236-gamification-framework\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Gamification Framework Extension<\/A> includes core functionality to specify&nbsp;an own Gamification environment inside Polarion:<br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n\t<LI>Configurable Configuration<br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n\t<LI>Administrators get the possibility to define own conditions to collect points, define Trophies to achieve based on reached conditions, for example the user can get a Trophy&nbsp;if he\/she created 10 comments, or created 50 Work Items. With each&nbsp;point and Trophy the users can reach configurable levels.It&#8217;s your choice to honor different achievements with&nbsp;benefits like free gifts or additional vacation days!<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\n<\/LI><br \/>\n\t<LI>A Sample configuration including different conditions, trophies and levels<\/LI><br \/>\n\t<LI>Together with the Technical Framework you will get a detailed readme-file with instructions on how to extend and configure the framework.<\/LI><br \/>\n\t<LI>2 sample Wiki pages to help you getting started to create&nbsp;personal statistics pages, eg to compare&nbsp;departments or teams<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><STRONG><a title=\"Extension Portal\" href=\"http:\/\/extensions.polarion.com\/extensions\/236-gamification-framework\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Direct Link to&nbsp;the&nbsp;Extension Portal&#8230;<\/A><\/STRONG><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><EM>The readme file gives you detailed information from installation, to configuration and use:<\/EM><\/p>\n<p><IMG class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5952\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/siemensplm_blogs\/2014\/06\/reradme_toc-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"reradme_toc\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><EM>Two included Wiki pages&nbsp;give you&nbsp;an overview on how statistics can be fetched and displayed:<\/EM><\/p>\n<p><A href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/siemensplm_blogs\/2014\/06\/statistics1.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5950\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/siemensplm_blogs\/2014\/06\/statistics1-300x138.jpg\" alt=\"statistics1\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" \/><\/A> <A href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/siemensplm_blogs\/2014\/06\/trophies.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5951\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/siemensplm_blogs\/2014\/06\/trophies-300x98.jpg\" alt=\"trophies\" width=\"300\" height=\"98\" \/><\/A><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><EM>The Extension is provided as is and can be freely modified.<\/EM><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Gamification?<br \/>\nGamification is a new concept, developed by the inventor of Automotive Spice, Alec Dorling.<\/p>\n<p>Gamification is all about increasing&nbsp;motivation. 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