What motivates IT engineers

To achieve positive results of your projects, you and your team must be well motivated. Without proper motivational mechanisms, people could easily lose their productivity, get apathetic and bored with your project.

Many managers try to use money to increase motivation, but it seldom works. How could we motivate our engineers to get the project done? Simply let them have fun!

This rule works for me and, I presume, should work well for most valuable members of your team. Nice analysis of engineers motivation factors are analysed on the movie below.