Nowadays Hackathons or Innovation Weeks are organized in almost every company. The goal of these type of competitions are to bring out the hidden talent or ideas from employees which otherwise remains hidden. These talents or ideas or concepts remains hidden because first of all there is always lack of time. Second thing is that the priority of actual work is always greater than any other thing for an employer.
So when you get time to do something you have always wanted to do at your workplace in terms of being creative and floating and trying out new things then this is your time to show what you have it in yourself.
Here are few points to consider when you are planning to work on something in the upcoming Hackathon or Innovation week:
- Try to find solution to a problem that is related to your work and your boss also agrees with you that it should be solved.
- Be clear of scope of the problem on which you will work on as sometimes can be very huge to solve and you cant get whole of it covered.
- Make sure you have the right and balanced team with you.
- Building a team and working with your team is very important for those professionals who feel and have got feedback that they are not very good team players.
- Have a pitch ready that clearly states your problem statement and what is your approach. A point or two stating that how this problem has been a bottleneck will strengthen your case.
- Work by enjoying this time with your team don't stress out too much.
- Be focussed on the minimal viable product approach and do not try to put much in at first go.
- After the MVP is done make a brief plan on how you would like to go with it in future.
- Provide estimate of how much time it would take to make the final product ready for deployment.
- Make the final presentation representing your ideas plus points and present it with passion like it is your startup idea.
- Enjoy the win with team as there is no one actually loses when all work together for good.
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