skunkworks projects
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What are Skunkworks projects and some best practices + cases.TRANSCRIPT
Skunkworks projects
Me?s = new @samzzi; s.name = “Sam Serrien”; s.work = “These Days”;
s.wife = new @kimzzi; s.kid[1] = new @lienemie; s.kid[2] = new @haike; s.type =“Creative Technologist”; s.website = “sam.serrien.be”; s.email = “[email protected]”;
Origin?
0 Originated from Skunk Works, official alias for the Lockheed Advanced Development Projects
0 Responsible for U-2, SR-71 Blackbird, F-117 Nighthawk, F-22 Raptor, F-35 Lightning II .....
“An organization given a high degree of autonomy and unhampered by bureaucracy, tasked with working on advanced or secret projects”
U-2
SR-71 Blackbird
F-117 Nighthawk
F-22 Raptor
F-35 Lightning II
So basically....
Insanely cool stuff made by seriously
funky smart people.
Fo’ shizzle
‘Skunkworks project’
“A skunkworks project is one typically developed by a small and loosely structured group of people who research and develop a project primarily for the sake of radical innovation.”
The team
0 Multi-disciplined is +0 Everybody needs to trust eachother0 Everybody on the same level though the one that
came with the idea tends to take ownership
0 Teamwork and motivation is key
It starts with an idea
Hell yeah, clipart FTW
Next steps
0 Put together a team (not too big)0 Start designing, developing, creating ...0 Finish it up0 Push live
1 sprint
No overthinking
Just do it
copyright by nike .. blablabla (c) 2011
Afterwards
0 Measure success and define next steps
0 Keep as is0 Take down0 Convert to normal project and create planning
Cases
Ninja’s
0 These Days recruiting campaign0 3 people0 6h from concept to live
0 1 tweet started it all... generated +-13,000 reactions
Fartcha
0 Just for funz (superawesomecool concept :p)0 5 people0 Kicked off with 1 coding night
0 Started 9 december – finished for 95%
0 ... Live since this night (because I wanted to show u guyz )
Meet Mojo
Say bye bye mojo
Just don’t loose your project mojo because you’re seeing it to big or start overthinking it or because you’reafraid that not everything is
just exactly like you wanted it to be.
Just do it
Gelijkloon
0 To support a cause0 4 people0 6h from idea to live
0 1 tweet started it all0 generated +2000 unique visits in less than a day (BE
only)
(sorry for all that spam yesterday btw )
Why?
For the kick of it
http://www.stonecutters.be
http://labs.thesedays.com
kthxbye