Hackathons involve forming teams of people to work on projects, with an emphasis on organizing communication around the process. The purpose is for participants to learn, grow their skills, and celebrate their work and accomplishments together. Key roles include project managers to organize the team and facilitate communication, as well as product managers to guide development work according to priorities. An agile development approach is commonly used, with an emphasis on early delivery of minimum viable products and accepting changing requirements. The informal, collaborative environment allows for learning through experiences like pair programming. Overall, hackathons aim to provide opportunities for learning, skill-building, and celebration among participants.

1. How Hackathons
are like Real Life
Toria Gibbs
Senior Software Engineer @ Etsy
@scarletdrive

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4. 4 FUNTIMESUSA.etsy.com

5. How Hackathons
are like Real Life
People
Form a team
Process
Organize, communicate
Purpose
Learn, grow, and celebrate!

6. By Matt Reedy
DenofApathyPrints.etsy.com6

7. Project
Manager
Product
Manager
People
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Designer
1 2 3

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By Gord Richard
MinifiguresandMore.etsy.com
Designers
● Creative vision
● Consistent brand

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Design Teams
● Central brand team:
logo, marketing, etc.
● Distributed product
design team: look and
feel of user interfaces

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By Wendy Tucci Stafford
TuccibellaArts.etsy.com

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Product Managers
● Know the product
● Guide the product
development

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By Christopher Brown
ArtOfThePage.etsy.com

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Project Managers
● Organize the team
● Facilitate
communication
● Remove blockers

14. Process

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Prioritize ExecuteBreak it down

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Photo via http://www.hexacta.com/2017/08/14/agile-management-5-scrum-myths-to-see-closely/

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By Holly Renee
Shenova.etsy.com
0 Simple task, investigation
1 Minimal effort, no complexity
2 Some effort and complexity
3 Moderate complexity, possibly some unknowns
5 High complexity, a few unknowns
8 High complexity, high effort
13 High complexity and effort, many critical unknowns

18. Principles of Agile Development
• Early and continuous delivery of software (i.e. build the minimum viable product, then iterate)
• Close, frequent cooperation between business (product managers) and developers
• Accept and welcome changing requirements
• Reflect often, adjust accordingly
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Paraphrased from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development#The_Manifesto_for_Agile_Software_Development

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#twinning with Zhi-Da
Pair programming with
Gregg’s daughter

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21. Purpose

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● Learning
● Growth
● Celebration!
Why are we here?
pinklinendesigns.etsy.com

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By Olivia Lin
Atiliay.etsy.com

24. etsy.com/people/toriagibbs/favorites/wtf

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By Cecilia Boettcher
PacificTieCompany.etsy.com

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By Kate Wong
StripedCatStudio.etsy.com

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Read more: codeascraft.com/2012/05/22/blameless-postmortems
0 test failures
0 test failures
8 test failures
8 test failures

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By Monica Ditsworth
ratboneskinny.etsy.com

30. How Hackathons
are like Real Life
People
Form a team
Process
Organize, communicate
Purpose
Learn, grow, and celebrate!

31. Find me on Twitter for a link to these slides
or just to be friends or whatever
@scarletdrive
Thanks!