Innovating with hackdays
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A quick introduction to using hack days as a means of innovating in a company and why it makes sense to take part as a developer.
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Innovating with hackdays
- 1. Innovating with hackdays. Christian Heilmann ITV Innovation Luncheon
- 2. What makes you happy?
- 3. What makes you happy? • Delivering something • Getting recognition for your work • Solving problems • Learning something new • Finding ways to improve things
- 4. This is hard in our day-to-day job! http://www.flickr.com/photos/goosmurf/3393799355/
- 5. This is hard in our day-to-day job! http://www.flickr.com/photos/twicepix/518133135/
- 6. Leaving our comfort zone.
- 7. Hackdays work! • Take 24 hours to build something new • Disregard all the protocols you have in delivery • Collaborate with people you haven’t worked with • Deliver a working prototype and explain what you want to achieve with it • Prepare a damn good 60 second pitch
- 9. Hackdays are for you! • Show off what you are interested in - no matter how geeky • Learn something new - is there a technology you always wanted to play with? • Get out of your shell - partner with people with complimentary skills and give a great pitch. • Release something on your terms and without waiting! • Show that if your manager is not breathing down your neck you can release awesome in no time
- 10. Scratch your own itch!
- 11. Hackday awesome can leak... • Write a tool to make a day-to-day process more efficient • Show that by using a certain tool or technology you can deliver something very quickly • Make the first step to learn that skill you always wanted to have but always pushed further out • Show that your department can innovate and deliver • Join a community outside the company
- 12. Hackdays are about delivery... • Don’t bother building the best thing ever • Concentrate on one thing and deliver a working prototype • Steal, borrow, cheat... whatever it takes, get the message across • Start something - make the code available • If the hack works only on your machine, also create a screencast (http://screenr.com rocks for that!)
- 13. Use whatever tool you need!
- 14. Tools to use... • Open technologies make it easy to build prototypes (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) • Use libraries (jQuery, Google Visualisation libraries, d3.js, rafael.js...) • Use APIs for data and conversion (programmableweb.com) • Find APIs to do time consuming jobs for you (vid.ly for video conversion, YQL for data mashing)
- 15. Re-use and connect solutions
- 17. Pitching hard and fast... • Show what your hack does • Explain the effect this has - why is it a cool hack? • Give ideas where this can go and how the company could benefit from it
- 18. After the hack day...
- 19. After the hack day... • Have your hack as a package for people to show around the company (screencast, screenshots, working code, 3 sentence pitch) • Keep hacking on it (freetime or ask your boss to get some extra time) • Demand follow-up from your company!
- 20. My turn!
- 22. Interactive video effects? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/video-effects
- 23. Scene change detection https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/scene-change-detection-demo
- 24. Subtitling https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/add-track
- 25. Facial detection / analytics https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/facial-recognition-and-analytics-with-html5s-video
- 28. popcornjs.org
- 35. /whois chris Chris Heilmann @codepo8 http://wait-till-i.com http://developer.mozilla.org #html5 - freenode.net #mozilla - mozilla.org