hacking is a mindset, not a skillset (agile ottawa)
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Slides from a presentation Tanya Snook andTRANSCRIPT
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Hacking is a mindset, not a skillset
presented to Agile Ottawa March 19, 2013
by Tanya Snook, @spydergrrl
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Hacking is a mindset, not a skillset
presented to Agile Ottawa March 19, 2013
by Tanya Snook, @spydergrrl
Agile
& Ellen Grove, @eegrove
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MIT Hacks
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Hacking Defined
Excellence
Explore limits of the possible
Exciting
Meaningful
Playful cleverness
Clever, ethical, enjoyable, excellence-seeking behaviour
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Hacking Defined
Excellence
Explore limits of the possible
Exciting
Meaningful
Playful cleverness
Clever, ethical, enjoyable, excellence-seeking behaviour
culture hackers actively
modify culture for
personal betterment and the
betterment of others….
Agile in reality is a great
big culture hack
Dan Mezick
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Do you hack?
• Sometimes
• Always
• Never
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Principles of a Hacking Mindset (according to spydergrrl)
1. Challenge accepted!
2. Blow away the box.
3. Bring your friends.
4. Give it away now.
5. Pay it forward.
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1. Challenge accepted! Barriers are welcomed.
• Barriers can be source of motivation.
• Breaking through them can be the reward.
• Perception issue? o Right tools, wrong perspective?
Lead from any
chair!
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Crowdfunding
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At work: Hack your training
RT @jbrains: Someone told me this early: “Your salary includes a skills allowance of the amount of your choosing”
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Anywhere: practice agility
Personal Kanban Personal Kanban
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2. Blow away the box. Look for unexpected ways to make it better.
• Step outside your thinking
• Find the fun or creative approach to a challenge
• Don't define yourself by how others define you
• Question your assumptions of the world
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Social media
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Redefine yourself
• Question your assumptions about yourself
• Don't define yourself by how others define you
Ada Lovelace
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3. Bring your friends. Unique perspectives create more robust solutions.
• Multi-disciplinary collaboration
• Completely different perspectives
• Be part of something bigger than yourself
RT @RalphMercer: We cannot solve a complex problem with a solution from a single discipline of study #justsaying
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Wait, what? Getting ideas from lots of places
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4. Give it away now. Information and knowledge should be shared openly, freely.
• Sharing information empowers others
• Hoarding is counterintuitive to innovation
• Give away your knowledge
RT @deadprogram My rules for social media: find something cool=tweet it, learned something cool=blog it, mastered something cool=present it
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Share. For free.
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Open... everything
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5. Pay it forward. Teach others to think like a hacker.
• Kids are perceptive. (So are your colleagues)
• Teach them to pivot their thinking
• Get them more engaged in learning
• Formal and informal opportunities to hack
• Turn questions into problem-solving and hacking
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Where it began...
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Raising a hacker
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Principles of a Hacking Mindset (according to spydergrrl)
1. Challenge accepted!
2. Blow away the box.
3. Bring your friends.
4. Give it away now.
5. Pay it forward.
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Do you hack?
• Sometimes
• Always
• Never
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Contact
Tweet @spydergrrl
Read spydergrrl.com
Email [email protected]
Tweet @eegrove
Read Masteringtheobvious.wordpress.com
Email [email protected]
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Ready to go? Maps & outfitters to help you on your journey
• The Culture Game – Dan Mezick
• Personalkanban.com
• Bruce Feiler: Agile programming for your family
• Pomodorotechnique.com
• http://www.codecademy.com
• Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar – James Marcus Bach
• The Core Protocols – Jim and Michele McCarthy
• Hackschooling makes me happy – Logan LaPlante at TEDxUniversityofNevada