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ShipIt Day Experiences
From ShipIt day I to VII and beyond
Henri Sora
Twitter: @henrisora
25.10.2012
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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
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 FedEx
It is up to the team to whom you playing with.
The problem was…
“to motivate”
a sprint after a sprint…
Some background about motivation
Motivation 1.0
Motivation 2.0: Taylorism &
Management
Motivation 2.0: Money
• Work serves greater purpose thanmoney like: open source, helpingothers, church or environment
Workpurpose
• Understanding of the asymptoticlearning curve
• Work brings flow. Mastery
• Task Based• Method Based• Timing based
Autonomy
• Internal Fairness• External Fairness• →Money is ”out of the table”
BasePayment
Work is fulfilling
Motivation 3.0
• Work serves greater purpose thanmoney like: open source, helpingothers, church or environment
Workpurpose
• Understanding of the asymptoticlearning curve
• Work brings flow. Mastery
• Task Based• Method Based• Timing based
Autonomy
• Internal Fairness• External Fairness• →Money is ”out of the table”
BasePayment
Work is fulfilling
Motivation 3.0
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
Let’s Play!
Preparation for a FedEx Day
The FedEx 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 – FedEx Day Vote is open on our Confluence
- Mon – The winner is announced
Ok, do you have any
results?
FedEx III: 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
FedEx V projects
- Liferay, Adding code generation scripts to Liferay development environment
- Liferay, Improve Image Gallery to match AmbientiaContent 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
How does it feel?
ShipIt Day I
ShipIt Day I
ShipIt Day V @Joensuu
ShipIt Day V
Winner: Laura
ShipIt Day VI Libby team
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A new twist!
4 days
Questions?
Twitter: @henrisora & [email protected]
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”