![]() ShipIt days ultimately require the management team to buy-in to the benefits. It’s also a way of enabling the team to think about the wider business of the product and not just the day to day routines and work.” ![]() I hope it brings some new ideas that we had previously not thought about and this in turn will help us enhance the product, or the way we deliver the product to our customers. ShipIt days can re-ignite this motivation. ”I do believe it will make us more productive on the existing work if people are more motivated and engaged in their day to day jobs. The original seeds of the idea and the push to move forward with the day actually came from our forward thinking management team.Īshley Unitt, our CTO, encouraged us to start doing ShipIt days. 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. We’ve finished our very first ShipIt day(s) last week. ![]()
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