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Sharing the Hacketse Trophy
We have held ten hackathons over a period of three years, and until last week, we've never had two winners.
While there were many exciting projects, the two winners, Francesco and Matthias (both from team Backbone) brought home a landslide win. Let's have a look why.
Backbone diagnostics on the go
Francesco wanted to make Backbone administrators' work easier by integrating a HipChat room with a Backbone.
After pulling an all-nighter, he was able to run diagnostics, as well as start and stop Backbone integrations and more by entering commands in HipChat. Here are a few of them:
scan integration status
set scan interval
report backbone version
show integrations
retrieve detailed info on errors if found
start/stop integrations
This way, administrators are not only notified via a HipChat message if an integration error occurs, but they can also run diagnostics, stop and restart integrations. All from within HipChat, no matter whether they are using their desktop at work or their phone while traveling – that's what we would call Backbone diagnostics on the go.
Feature importance aggregation tool
Matthias worked on a JIRA tool that makes judging a feature's importance much easier.
Multiple factors influence the decision which product features will be released next – customer requests and votes, the number of related tickets, and internal development needs. Matthias thought it would be easier to plan new features according to an aggregated importance score which would be influenced by all these factors. Hence, the idea for the feature importance aggregation tool was born.
It allows you to quickly judge which features are most anticipated and relevant, leading to even more satisfied customers.
Congratulations
Both ideas were so popular that our team members couldn't decide which was better. Congratulations to both on winning K15t's tenth 'Hacketse', and being our first co-winners.
At K15t Software, hackathons are called 'Hacketse'. It's a wordplay on a local German tradition in Baden-Württemberg, the area where K15t Software is based. This tradition is called 'Hocketse' and is the rough equivalent of a day-long block party. A perfect fit, as our hackathons are also about people coming together to make great things happen within one day.
