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John Polling
December 12, 2013
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You really should be working on a side project
Slides from a talk I gave at the Hull Digital "You really should be..." series.
John Polling
December 12, 2013
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Transcript
W O R K I N G O N A
S I D E P R O J E C T Y O U R E A L LY S H O U L D B E … …
L E T T I N G Y O U
R T E A M M E M B E R S W O R K O N A S I D E P R O J E C T Y O U R E A L LY S H O U L D B E … …
B A C K G R O U N D
C L I E N T S
None
T Y P I C A L C L I
E N T P R O J E C T L I F E C Y C L E E X A G G E R A T E D F O R E F F E C T
– A C L I E N T “I’ve got
a great new idea I want you to work on”
None
– C L I E N T W I T
H A S E N S E O F H U M O U R “I need it yesterday”
– C L I E N T W I T
H L I M I T E D B U D G E T “Can you do it for less?”
None
… … A N D R E P E AT
K N O W L E D G E ?
G A I N I N G K N O
W L E D G E • Conferences • Books • Blogs • Screencasts / Podcasts • Tinkering
I T ’ S A L L T H E
O RY, W H E R E ’ S T H E P R A C T I C A L ?
S I D E P R O J E C
T S
A G U V V Y I S N O
T A S I D E P R O J E C T
B U T I D O N ’ T K
N O W W H AT T O D O A S A S I D E P R O J E C T ! • Fix something that is broken • Open source? • Find someone that has an idea
W H AT M A K E S A G
O O D S I D E P R O J E C T 1. Use a new idea or tool 2. Work with new people 3. No restrictions (clients, budgets or timescales) 4. Done during normal working hours
M U S T G A I N K N
O W L E D G E
B E P R E PA R E D T
O FA I L
M U S T G A I N K N
O W L E D G E
- A B R A H A M L I
N C O L N “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”