The Agility Collective

The inner workings of a rather different consulting company

The Agility Hack Summit

Our Hack Summit is a 2-day event where we meet up at a off-site location and hack on new, or pet projects. It’s also an oppertunity to invite and include prospective consultants and key clients

Hack Summit gives everyone an opportunity to:

  • learn and evaluate new approaches or ways of doing things
  • build new products like training courses
  • hear about other experiences of new techniques and tools
  • try out ideas for products
  • focus on a task for 2 days
  • Invite and work with prospective members or special clients
  • get to know each other, and people who wish to join Crisp
  • flee family chores ;)

Why is it called The Agility Hack Summit?

We like the combination of the slightly unserious “Hack” and the quite pretentious “Summit”.

Purpose

Part of our idea is to always keep learning new things, and to dedicate 20% of our time to personal development. The Hack Summit concept is part of this.

Typical schedule

Friday

  • ~08.30 Coffee and sandwich
  • 09.00 Short briefing where everyone presents what they intend to work on (1 minute per person). Ideal for finding pairing partners if not already found.
  • ~10.30 Coffee …then hack
  • ~12.30 Lunch …then back to hacking
  • ~15.00 Afternoon coffee
  • ~16.00 Short briefing of learnings during the day. Optional demonstrations, max 3 minutes
  • ~16.20 Continue hacking
  • ~19.30 Dinner

Saturday

  • 08.00-10.00 Breakfast
  • ~09.00 We hack on - no synchronized morning briefing but we aim to start at 9 if anyone wants to discuss a problem etc.
  • ~10.30 Coffee …and hack away
  • ~12.30 Lunch …and get back to it
  • ~14.00 Project briefing and demo. Hack Summit Retrospective.
  • ~15.00 Afternoon coffee
  • ~15.30 Homeward bound