Some people call them hackathons. Others say they’re Hack Days. Reactive hosts Research & Development (R&D) Days and this year, Melbourne kicked off the first R&D day, inspiring the other offices around the world to follow suit.
For an entire day, our office switched off regular work and channelled creativity and innovation as we looked to come up with out-of-the box ideas for projects we find interesting. After a week of collaborative brainstorming, R&D Day started with off with people breaking off in teams or working solo and the ideas and energy in the office started flourishing.
Everyone presented their work to the office and there are a lot of rich ideas that we’re excited to work on. The next Reactive office in line to organise an R&D is Reactive Sydney- here’s to seeing what our Sydneysiders come up with!
Want to know what we created? Here are just a few of the great ideas that were presented:
1. We ate pizza while we listened to the presentations.
2. Chris, Chief Search Engineer for Reseo, researched new reporting tools for Reseo to use to cut down the amount of time it currently takes to do reports.
3. Hiedi, Diana and Nick created a company introduction video for newcomers to Reactive.
4. Nick was impressed.
5. Ophenia discussed developing a set of workshops to discuss the ways Reactive and Reseo can create new opportunities together.
6. Sam looked into responsive web design and created a Web site to illustrate how it works.
7. Tess, Drew, Adam, Shane and Charmaine worked on a internal screen for our reception area that shows Reactive's recent work via rss off our web site, company announcements, Reactive Twitter feed and more.
Marina Kosmatos, Marketing Manager