Your dev team made time for an internal hackathon. It was a success, with plenty of cool ideas spun up in a matter of hours or days. Great. Now what?
Rob Frieman, URBN’s executive director of engineering, kicked off a Developers Conference session on the topic with case studies from four of his team members: Architect Matt Brophy, Director of Engineering for Front-End and Mobile Engineering Chris Hunter, Senior Engineer Eric Kertz and Architect Ray Migneco.
Read some of the highlights here …
We're live with @urbn engineers' case study on hackathon product development, during #PTW20's Developers Conference!
Internal hackathons "open the door to possibilities," says Director of Engineering Rob Frieman, giving teams room for creativity. Plus, healthy competition.
— Technical.ly Philly (@TechnicallyPHL) September 23, 2020
… and watch the full session, slides included, here:
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