jcn12 ship it day experiences at ambientia 2012 10-24 (hs)
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ShipIt Day Experiences
From ShipIt day I to VIII
Henri Sora
Twitter: @henrisora
25.10.2012
17.8.2012
Henri Sora
© Sofia Nordström
- Ambientia- Since 1998- Director, Technology and Services- Board Member
- Aucor (software)- Advisory Board Member
- Labrox (life sciences) - Chairman of the Board
- Father of three children - (6 y, 3 y and 1 y)
- Hobbies - Hiking - Sailing- Kayaking - Bicycling
Days
The problem for me was…
“to motivate”
a sprint after a sprint…
I studied some motivation theory…
Motivation 1.0
Motivation 2.0: Taylorism & Management
Motivation 2.0: Money
• Work serves greater purpose than money like: open source, helping others, church or environment
Work purpose
• Understanding of the asymptotic learning curve
• Work brings flow. Mastery
• Task Based• Method Based• Timing basedAutonomy
• Internal Fairness• External Fairness• Money is ”out of the table”
Base Payment
Work is fulfilling
Motivation 3.0
• Work serves greater purpose than money like: open source, helping others, church or environment
Work purpose
• Understanding of the asymptotic learning curve
• Work brings flow. Mastery
• Task Based• Method Based• Timing basedAutonomy
• Internal Fairness• External Fairness• Money is ”out of the table”
Base Payment
Work is fulfilling
Motivation 3.0
A ShipIt Day is…
that might somehow benefit our company
a 24 hour period to produce a deliverable with anybody*
1. Task 2. Time 3. Technique 4. Team
4 T’s of Freedom during a ShipIt Day
It is up to the team to whom you playing with.
It is run like this…
Preparation for a ShipIt Day
A ShipIt Day
- Thursday at 12:00 – Brief introduction and coding starts
- Thursday at ~17:00 – Ambientia provides coding lunch
- Thursday night – Eager people code away - Friday at 12:00 – Each member presents
their work - Fri to Mon – ShipIt Day Vote is open on our
Confluence - Mon – The winner is announced
How does it feel?
ShipIt Day I
ShipIt Day I
ShipIt Day V @Joensuu
ShipIt Day V Winner: Laura
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ShipIt Day VI Libby team
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A new twist!
4 days
Further reading
• Web- Ambientia’s blog at: http://blog.ambientia.fi/category/fedex/- Daniel Pink at http://www.danpink.com/- Atlassian, FedEx Day FAQ
• Books - Daniel Pink: “
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: “
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience”- Ressler & Thompson: “Why Work Sucks And How To Fix It”
Goals at Ambientia
Goals at Ambientia
1. Flow@Work
2. Opportunity to experiment
3. Freedom to innovate without management approval
4. To show our lead in management innovation
5. To integrate our teams across Finland
ShipIt III: POC of Project archival plugin for Jira
Categories people have selected
1. Improvements and fixes to Liferay and Confluence
2. Proof of Concepts
3. Process and tool improvements
4. Reusable templates for Liferay
ShipIt Day V projects
- Liferay, Adding code generation scripts to Liferay development environment
- Liferay, Improve Image Gallery to match Ambientia Content Manager’s features
- JBoss SOA Platform, Expose monitoring interfaces to BaseN Platform
- Liferay, Extending Alloy UI Tag library
- Liferay, Templates Based on Responsive Design Principles