Topcoder: The Anatomy of a Challenge

In this talk Katy Price will discuss the Topcoder platform, focusing specifically on a new offering that Topcoder is rolling out to it’s community - ios.topcoder.com. In conjunction with many partners Topcoder is beginning to roll out a pipeline of design work and development work focusing on iOS to enable the crowd to help deliver innovative solutions for clients all around the world. Topcoder is focused on helping members improve, hone their skills, earn cash rewards and to be recognized for the work they complete. By becoming part of the Topcoder iOS Community you can raise your mobile app dev game while earning badges and coding or designing for real-world app development projects. Rather than focus on just the platform, Katy will walk the audience through a real life challenge that ran on the platform, how members signed up and competed and how the code review process works for challenges in general using the competitive crowdsourcing model to get work done.

By Katy Price http://ios.topcoder.com

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1. Learn, Compete, Win Katy Price @katynprice
4. Problem Atomisation Breaking a project down into constituent units of work. Unique problems to be addressed; – Facial Recognition – Voice Command – Multi-Agency Barcode Compatibility
7. What is Topcoder? 897,000+ COMMUNITY MEMBERS 190 COUNTRIES & REGIONS REPRESENTED $74M+ PAID TO COMMUNITY ~6,5k CHALLENGES LAUNCHED IN 2014
8. Marathon Matches Data & Business Analytics Development Assembly Testing Bug Races Architecture Concepts Design Wireframes Storyboards Prototype What can I work on?
9. How a challenge works...
10. Narinder What?!
11. Develop As Normal!
12. Test As Normal!
13. Get Reviewed
14. Source: http://www.kpcb.com/internet-trends Why be Part of the Community?
15. Trend: Crowdsourcing increasingly prevalent in business Gartner “By 2018, over 75% of high-performing enterprises will be using some type of crowdsourcing for business process services” “Crowdsourcing will also constitute 20% of all enterprise application development sourcing initiatives” Why be Part of the Community?
16. No Really, Why? Java Developer Bogotá, Colombia Algorithmist Santa Fe, New Mexico Designer Shanghai, China Mobile Expert Kyzyl, Russia iOS Guru Perth, Australia Web Designer Lyon, France The Cloud Makes it Possible to Connect in Ways Never Before Possible.
18. • Visit ios.topcoder.com • Register • Sign up for and start earning badges while you compete • @katynprice How do I Get Started?
19. Questions? Katy Price @katynprice