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How It Works

No matter what development process your team uses—Kanban, Scrum, or Waterfall—manageability depends on how fairly and objectively you reward your most productive programmers. Zerocracy does exactly that: it measures each person's contribution according to predefined and configurable bylaws, eliminating favoritism, subjectivity, and emotions.

Zerocracy is non-intrusive: it doesn't tell programmers what to do, when, or how. Instead, it observes their actions and informs them when they earn or lose points. Programmers can view their individual contribution statistics in an HTML summary updated every few hours (example). They also receive notifications directly in their GitHub issues (example).

As a manager, you can use the points earned by programmers to calculate their bonuses or even salaries. Even if you don't, the gamification alone will significantly improve team productivity and reduce turnover.

Here's how it works:

1. You create an account and get a token.
2. You create a new GitHub Actions workflow.
3. The workflow publishes points earned by each programmer.
4. Zerocrat on GitHub informs programmers when they score.

Currently, it's all free.