Hack Week as innovation driver at Dropbox
summary
Dropbox runs a 120 hour global Hack Week that pulls ~1,500 people from engineering product and design into one focused project guided by seven principles. Concrete outcomes include open source Pied Piper saved ~22.5% on JPEG and video files, product features like File Requests Dropbox for Business and Paper originating in hack projects, and an implementation cadence such as Paper embed shipped in six weeks. About 30% of the product roadmap is influenced while production code is rewritten after the week.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction to Dropbox
- 1:43The concept of hack week
- 3:36The seven principles
- 16:04Collaboration and summary
- 19:26Impact on the roadmap
- 26:39Q&A session
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