![]() We didn’t just decide one day that we would do a ShipIt day. Did you just decide to do a ShipIt day? What did the management say? It’s important to stress that these days also have a positive effect for our customers as many of the “ideas” revolved around improving our service, improving the product or adding new features. ShipIt days have a number of benefits for those involved and NewVoiceMedia as a business. Whatever the outcome, the day strengthens a culture that is keen to learn and willing to take risks to succeed.” The end result may be a prototype that leads to a great product/feature, or it may simply be a lesson learned. Risk taking inevitably involves failure, so Ship It day is a time we set aside for people to learn cool new things and take big risks. Great products come out of teams that have the time and the courage to take risks. ![]() “The goal of Ship It day was to foster a culture of curiosity and innovation. Here’s what Lyndsay Prewer, our development manager and one of the organisers of the day, had to say about ShipIt days: It sounds counter intuitive.right? Why would a team do that? Right now I can imagine a few readers are wondering why we would take time out of the roadmap to work on stuff that isn’t on the roadmap. What? You take time out of developing core features to build…anything? Our ShipIt day started on Thursday lunchtime and finished Friday afternoon with a great show and tell session to the wider business. There is no strict approval process for the work, but we do have a few guidelines which I’ve outlined later in this post. The ShipIt day’s work ideas came from the development team (testers, programmers, product, managers). Some teams may use this ShipIt time to tidy up areas which have been long standing frustrations, to create new tools which are helpful behind the scenes or to implement new features for the product. ![]() In a nutshell a ShipIt day is when the development team get together to work on building something that is not directly on the product roadmap or considered a planned feature for the product. ![]() More can be found on the roots and details of Atlassian ShipIt days here: What is a ShipIt day? We took inspiration from the clever team over at Atlassian. It was excellent and we saw some really great work created, lots of collaboration through the dev team and a real sense of enjoyment from those involved. The app used to manage the distribution of cheers has been developed internally.Ĭonsisting of 8 people (1 voluntary employee from each department), they are responsible for coordinating and organizing team celebrations.Įxamples: completing an inter-service project reaching an exceptional objective receiving an award such as the #PrixRh or Great Place To Work.We’ve finished our very first ShipIt day(s) last week. It rewards an employee who has made a special effort (internal customer service). It’s a tool for recognition and encouragement between peers. Self-sufficient work teams (scrum-agility) must deliver the most successful product possible within a given time limit! Volunteer employees have 24 hours to work on a voted subject. For our participation in the HR prize for the Grand Sud region, organized by Michael Page and ANDRH, VirtualExpo Group presented 3 projects addressing the issue of "how do employees themselves contribute to the continuous improvement of the company and its HR practices"?
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