Hacking is a mindset, not a skillset (agile ottawa)
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The document discusses Tanya Snook's presentation on hacking being a mindset rather than a skillset. It provides 5 principles of a hacking mindset: 1) Challenge accepted, 2) Blow away the box, 3) Bring your friends, 4) Give it away now, and 5) Pay it forward. Hacking is defined as clever, ethical, enjoyable, and excellence-seeking behavior. The presentation encourages the audience to adopt a hacking mindset and provided resources for doing so.
Hacking is a mindset, not a skillset (agile ottawa)
- 1. Hacking is a mindset, not a skillset presented to Agile Ottawa March 19, 2013 by Tanya Snook, @spydergrrl
- 2. Agile Hacking is a mindset, not a skillset presented to Agile Ottawa March 19, 2013 by Tanya Snook, @spydergrrl & Ellen Grove, @eegrove
- 4. MIT Hacks
- 5. Hacking Defined Excellence Explore limits of the possible Exciting Meaningful Playful cleverness Clever, ethical, enjoyable, excellence-seeking behaviour
- 6. Hacking Defined culture hackers actively Excellence modify culture for Explore limits of personal betterment and the the possible betterment of others…. Exciting Agile in reality is a great Meaningful big culture hack Playful cleverness Dan Mezick Clever, ethical, enjoyable, excellence-seeking behaviour
- 7. Do you hack? • Sometimes • Always • Never
- 8. Principles of a Hacking Mindset (according to spydergrrl) 1. Challenge accepted! 2. Blow away the box. 3. Bring your friends. 4. Give it away now. 5. Pay it forward.
- 9. 1. Challenge accepted! Barriers are welcomed. • Barriers can be source of motivation. • Breaking through them can be the reward. • Perception issue? o Right tools, wrong perspective? Lead from any chair!
- 10. Crowdfunding
- 11. At work: Hack your training RT @jbrains: Someone told me this early: “Your salary includes a skills allowance of the amount of your choosing”
- 12. Anywhere: practice agility Personal Kanban
- 13. 2. Blow away the box. Look for unexpected ways to make it better. • Step outside your thinking • Find the fun or creative approach to a challenge • Don't define yourself by how others define you • Question your assumptions of the world
- 14. Social media
- 15. Redefine yourself • Question your assumptions about yourself • Don't define yourself by how others define you Ada Lovelace
- 16. 3. Bring your friends. Unique perspectives create more robust solutions. • Multi-disciplinary collaboration • Completely different perspectives • Be part of something bigger than yourself RT @RalphMercer: We cannot solve a complex problem with a solution from a single discipline of study #justsaying
- 17. Wait, what? Getting ideas from lots of places
- 18. 4. Give it away now. Information and knowledge should be shared openly, freely. • Sharing information empowers others • Hoarding is counterintuitive to innovation • Give away your knowledge RT @deadprogram My rules for social media: find something cool=tweet it, learned something cool=blog it, mastered something cool=present it
- 19. Share. For free.
- 21. 5. Pay it forward. Teach others to think like a hacker. • Kids are perceptive. (So are your colleagues) • Teach them to pivot their thinking • Get them more engaged in learning • Formal and informal opportunities to hack • Turn questions into problem-solving and hacking
- 23. Raising a hacker
- 24. Principles of a Hacking Mindset (according to spydergrrl) 1. Challenge accepted! 2. Blow away the box. 3. Bring your friends. 4. Give it away now. 5. Pay it forward.
- 25. Do you hack? • Sometimes • Always • Never
- 26. Contact Tweet @spydergrrl Read spydergrrl.com Email spydergrrlOnTheWeb@gmail.com Tweet @eegrove Read Masteringtheobvious.wordpress.com Email ellen@profluence.ca
- 27. Ready to go? Maps & outfitters to help you on your journey • The Culture Game – Dan Mezick • Personalkanban.com • Bruce Feiler: Agile programming for your family • Pomodorotechnique.com • http://www.codecademy.com • Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar – James Marcus Bach • The Core Protocols – Jim and Michele McCarthy • Hackschooling makes me happy – Logan LaPlante at TEDxUniversityofNevada