Incubating ideas Aussie style

Today I came across an idea that intrigued me: Hatch Day. The idea is to get together people who have ideas about projects they want to start or move forward with people who like working on projects - and then to present a prototype at the end of it.

I’m always a fan of finding ways to move projects forward more quickly, and I can’t help but wonder what it would be like to do a day like this within a company. You could even have a final stage of assessing the prototypes by merit/commercial return, and viola - you’ve got yourself a development plan.

It certainly would be a novel way of tackling some of the difficulties around balancing different demands from the business.

If you think you might struggle with enough people who know things about web to support as many projects, you could go one step further - do it as a recruitment open day. No interviews, just get people to come along and see what they produce - take on board the people who were part of the team that came up with the most viable project solutions… ok so that might be going a bit far but, I can’t help but think it could be a very interesting ‘agile’ approach to recruitment.

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 at 4:53 pm | Categories: bookmarks, agile development, web teams

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