{"id":9419,"date":"2015-12-14T12:53:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T10:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/?p=9419"},"modified":"2015-12-15T16:40:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T14:40:37","slug":"the-first-icclab-hackathon-a-fun-and-productive-few-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/the-first-icclab-hackathon-a-fun-and-productive-few-days\/","title":{"rendered":"The first ICCLab hackathon – a fun and productive few days"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here in ICCLab, we’ve always been interested in the hackathon approach as a way to develop small but practical ideas and make demonstrable prototypes rapidly. With all of our other commitments, it has been difficult for us to set aside the time for such an event, but we finally managed to do this last week.<\/p>\n

The scope was loose, with the objective being to develop something which can be demonstrated; we had a small preference for work which was related to our core business – cloud technologies – but we were quite flexible on this point.<\/p>\n

We had a simple pre-hackathon process in which folks proposed projects in a document; others could then comment on them, identifying any issues or shortcomings or proposing enhancements or alternative approaches. This (short) discussion was then followed by the team formation process in which everyone indicated their first, second and third preferences for teams to engage with. The result was that there was a fairly even distribution of first preferences across the teams and consequently everyone got to work on their first preference.<\/p>\n

We ended up with the following 4 teams:<\/p>\n