Atlassian shipit hackathon full#

And while our Planters are partying, the Sheep Squad goes for a meeting and a vote.

And yes – we have a real stage in our office!Īfter the presentations, it’s time to unwind and party! Each hackathon ends with a big and well-deserved celebration. Each team takes the stage for about 10 minutes and takes everyone through all the functionalities of their designs.

At 3:00 pm, the whole company gathers for a demo presentation of all developed features. They also discuss a plan of action for the remaining days, which at this point should focus on testing and bug fixing. On Wednesday there’s a checkpoint: each team briefly presents to Sheep Squad the results of their work so far. On Friday, of the week preceding the hackathon, there is an official kick-off where all teams present their ideas. They supervise the course of the event and assist all competing teams. The so-called Sheep Squad – representatives of Support, Product Management, UX, Marketing, DevOps and System Architecture divisions, ensures the smooth running of the event. And during Ship It Weeks the clock is ticking very fast! The challenge is not only to come up with an innovative and useful design, but also to make sure that on Friday, it’s ready to be released. They all have the same task: to develop amazing new features for BigPicture, a plugin to the JIRA Project Portfolio Management system and SoftwarePlant’s flagship product. Some basic rulesĮvery eight weeks, our developers freely form teams in which they’ll work for five days, from Monday to Friday.

Atlassian shipit hackathon full#

And yes – even though it’s a hackathon, everyone gets paid the full rate for participating. Instead of creating an abstract solution, we’re working on a real product that is used by 10k+ project managers, including those from Fortune Global 500. What makes them so special? Instead of competing on weekends, we do it for a whole week during working hours. ShipIt Events, which have been successfully introduced and popularized by such giants of the IT/ High-Tech industry as Atlassian, became regular events at SoftwarePlant in 2018. We don’t want to brag, but our hackathons – or ShipIt Weeks, as we call them internally, is kind of big deal that we’re very proud of.