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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”

Puhelin: 040 5340 405

Sähköposti: [email protected]

Twitter: @henrisora

Henri Sora