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Watch: How to take an internal hackathon project to scale

URBN engineers presented case studies of hackathon success stories at PTW20's Developers Conference.

A recent URBN hackathon's winning team. (Screenshot)

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 …

… and watch the full session, slides included, here:

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