Value in a happy hack day
By philhawksworth 28 Sep 2011.
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A few weeks ago at The Team, inspired by the Atlassian model of FedEx days which we have have successfully employed before, we managed to make some time for the development team to spend the day away from the office to work on something for themselves. No clients and no managers, just our own requirements and some time to work in new ways together. It yielded some valuable results.
Riots or community? You choose.
By Darryl Mead 12 Sep 2011.
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Following two days of constant sirens around London, when I saw the riot vans racing past my street, I assumed looting had finally broken out in my south-east London suburb. I set up a Tweetdeck column to follow the local story and quickly saw there had been a stabbing, sports stores emptied, windows smashed and it had all “kicked-off” just around the corner down the main street. I regularly shop there and wondered why our community was smashing up our community. Opportunity aside, what had sparked this group of locals to come together and act like this?
