1. ShipIt Day Experiences
From ShipIt day I to VIII
Henri Sora
Twitter: @henrisora
25.10.2012
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2. Henri Sora
- Father of three children
- Ambientia
-(6 y, 3 y and 1 y)
- Since 1998
- Director, Technology and Services
- Hobbies
- Board Member
- Hiking
- Aucor (software)
- Sailing
- Advisory Board Member
- Kayaking
- Labrox (life sciences)
- Bicycling
- Chairman of the Board © Sofia Nordström

4. Days

7. The problem for me
was…

8. “to motivate”

9. a sprint after a sprint…

10. I studied some
motivation theory…

11. Motivation 1.0

12. Motivation 2.0: Taylorism &
Management

13. Motivation 2.0: Money

14. Motivation 3.0
Work • Work serves greater purpose than
money like: open source, helping
purpose others, church or environment
• Understanding of the asymptotic
Mastery learning curve
• Work brings flow.
Work is
• Task Based fulfilling
Autonomy • Method Based
• Timing based
Base • Internal Fairness
• External Fairness
Payment •  Money is ”out of the table”

15. Motivation 3.0
Work • Work serves greater purpose than
money like: open source, helping
purpose others, church or environment
• Understanding of the asymptotic
Mastery learning curve
• Work brings flow.
Work is
• Task Based fulfilling
Autonomy • Method Based
• Timing based
Base • Internal Fairness
• External Fairness
Payment •  Money is ”out of the table”

16. A ShipIt Day is…

17. a 24 hour period to
produce a deliverable
with anybody*
that might somehow benefit our company

18. 4 T’s of Freedom during a ShipIt Day
1. Task
2. Time
3. Technique
4. Team
It is up to the team to whom you playing with.

19. It is run like this…

20. Preparation for a ShipIt Day

21. A ShipIt Day
- Thursday at 12:00 – Brief introduction and
coding starts
- Thursday at ~17:00 – Ambientia provides coding
lunch
- Thursday night – Eager people code away
- Friday at 12:00 – Each member presents their
work
- Fri to Mon – ShipIt Day Vote is open on our
Confluence
- Mon – The winner is announced

22. How does it feel?

24. ShipIt Day I

25. ShipIt Day I

26. ShipIt Day V @Joensuu

27. ShipIt Day V
Winner: Laura

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30. ShipIt Day VI Libby team
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31. A new twist!

32. 4 days

34. Questions, please?
Henri Sora
Twitter: @henrisora
henri.sora@ambientia.fi
17.8.2012 www.ambientia.net 36

36. Henri Sora
Puhelin: 040 5340 405
Sähköposti: henri.sora@ambientia.fi
Twitter: @henrisora

37. Further reading
• Web
- Ambientia’s blog at:
http://blog.ambientia.fi/category/fedex/
- Daniel Pink at http://www.danpink.com/
- Atlassian, FedEx Day FAQ
• Books
- Daniel Pink: “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What
Motivates Us”
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: “Flow: The Psychology of
Optimal Experience”
- Ressler & Thompson: “Why Work Sucks And How To Fix
It”

38. Goals at Ambientia

39. Goals at Ambientia
1. Flow@Work
2. Opportunity to experiment
3. Freedom to innovate without management
approval
4. To show our lead in management innovation
5. To integrate our teams across Finland

40. ShipIt III: POC of Project archival
plugin for Jira

41. Categories people have selected
1. Improvements and fixes to Liferay and
Confluence
2. Proof of Concepts
3. Process and tool improvements
4. Reusable templates for Liferay

42. ShipIt Day V projects
- Liferay, Adding code generation scripts to Liferay
development environment
- Liferay, Improve Image Gallery to match Ambientia
Content Manager’s features
- JBoss SOA Platform, Expose monitoring interfaces to
BaseN Platform
- Liferay, Extending Alloy UI Tag library
- Liferay, Templates Based on Responsive Design
Principles