Recently, I have stumbled upon an interesting article describing motivation elements in agile, but not only.

The most important advantage of this article over thousands on the web is that author actually understands that all soft techniques or agile methods (proud, team work, shame, etc.) are nice and in many cases works well, but sometimes, it is not enough and manager must appeal to heavier argumentation or standard motivation techniques.

What is your favourable motivation techniques? Any tips and tricks that you can share with Agilopolis colleagues?

For details, please take a look at full article:
http://agile.dzone.com/articles/how-motivate-developers-a-thre

You may also check article on Agilopolis about same topic by Tomasz Lukasiewicz:
Motivation - Agile Approach