hacking is a mindset, not a skillset (agile ottawa)
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Hacking is a mindset, not a skillset
presented to Agile Ottawa March 19, 2013
by Tanya Snook, @spydergrrl
Hacking is a mindset, not a skillset
presented to Agile Ottawa March 19, 2013
by Tanya Snook, @spydergrrl
Agile
& Ellen Grove, @eegrove
MIT Hacks
Hacking Defined
Excellence
Explore limits of the possible
Exciting
Meaningful
Playful cleverness
Clever, ethical, enjoyable, excellence-seeking behaviour
Hacking Defined
Excellence
Explore limits of the possible
Exciting
Meaningful
Playful cleverness
Clever, ethical, enjoyable, excellence-seeking behaviour
culture hackers actively
modify culture for
personal betterment and the
betterment of others….
Agile in reality is a great
big culture hack
Dan Mezick
Do you hack?
• Sometimes
• Always
• Never
Principles of a Hacking Mindset (according to spydergrrl)
1. Challenge accepted!
2. Blow away the box.
3. Bring your friends.
4. Give it away now.
5. Pay it forward.
1. Challenge accepted! Barriers are welcomed.
• Barriers can be source of motivation.
• Breaking through them can be the reward.
• Perception issue? o Right tools, wrong perspective?
Lead from any
chair!
Crowdfunding
At work: Hack your training
RT @jbrains: Someone told me this early: “Your salary includes a skills allowance of the amount of your choosing”
Anywhere: practice agility
Personal Kanban Personal Kanban
2. Blow away the box. Look for unexpected ways to make it better.
• Step outside your thinking
• Find the fun or creative approach to a challenge
• Don't define yourself by how others define you
• Question your assumptions of the world
Social media
Redefine yourself
• Question your assumptions about yourself
• Don't define yourself by how others define you
Ada Lovelace
3. Bring your friends. Unique perspectives create more robust solutions.
• Multi-disciplinary collaboration
• Completely different perspectives
• Be part of something bigger than yourself
RT @RalphMercer: We cannot solve a complex problem with a solution from a single discipline of study #justsaying
Wait, what? Getting ideas from lots of places
4. Give it away now. Information and knowledge should be shared openly, freely.
• Sharing information empowers others
• Hoarding is counterintuitive to innovation
• Give away your knowledge
RT @deadprogram My rules for social media: find something cool=tweet it, learned something cool=blog it, mastered something cool=present it
Share. For free.
Open... everything
5. Pay it forward. Teach others to think like a hacker.
• Kids are perceptive. (So are your colleagues)
• Teach them to pivot their thinking
• Get them more engaged in learning
• Formal and informal opportunities to hack
• Turn questions into problem-solving and hacking
Where it began...
Raising a hacker
Principles of a Hacking Mindset (according to spydergrrl)
1. Challenge accepted!
2. Blow away the box.
3. Bring your friends.
4. Give it away now.
5. Pay it forward.
Do you hack?
• Sometimes
• Always
• Never
Contact
Tweet @spydergrrl
Read spydergrrl.com
Email [email protected]
Tweet @eegrove
Read Masteringtheobvious.wordpress.com
Email [email protected]
Ready to go? Maps & outfitters to help you on your journey
• The Culture Game – Dan Mezick
• Personalkanban.com
• Bruce Feiler: Agile programming for your family
• Pomodorotechnique.com
• http://www.codecademy.com
• Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar – James Marcus Bach
• The Core Protocols – Jim and Michele McCarthy
• Hackschooling makes me happy – Logan LaPlante at TEDxUniversityofNevada