Paul Randall » hack day https://paulrandall.com Experimenting for a living. Sat, 15 Mar 2025 15:32:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 Office Hack Days https://paulrandall.com/2013/03/04/office-hack-days/ https://paulrandall.com/2013/03/04/office-hack-days/#comments Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:43:54 +0000 http://prandall.com/?p=671 This has been a wish for several years. I’ve been promised a few, and tried to organise a couple after work, but there are many reasons why I think that a daytime hack day at the office would be a good thing for everyone, including the business.

In the office environment where I now work our job is to deliver projects. This means that other people decide what projects we work on. The beauty of a hack day is seeing how the team will (hopefully) be very enthusiastic at the prospect of building something they choose to.

These are a couple reasons why I think office hack days should exist:

  • The balance of control would also be firmly in the hands of the developers.
  • Watch the team conceive, organise, plan and present everything without PM or BA involvement.
  • It’ll show the full potential of the team members.
  • Cheaper than an away-day or team-building event.
  • They may come up with some awesome ideas.

There are probably 101 other reasons why hack days are good things so if you have any, post them in the comments.

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