I gave a talk about Ambientia’s ShipIt Day experiences last week to a Finnish public sector organisation. The last time I gave the same speech was about six years ago. To me, it was a bit frightening how well I remembered the presentation without any practice. One of the reasons to speak to the organisation…

In November, our Tampere office organised Ambientia’s 11th ShipIt Day. Colleagues from our Turku office joined the event as well. Because we were familiar with the event formula from past experience, we only needed one preparation session to select the ShipIt Day projects. When work began, the following projects emerged: Clustering support for a substantial…

The eighth FedEx Day at Ambientia was a successfully orchestrated exercise in team integration. Our UX team in Turku may be quite small in number, but it’s definitely not small either in experience or in ego size. We have also got a talented programming team in Joensuu. – Therefore, we decided to import the guys…

Ambientia’s sixth FedEx Day took place at the Hämeenlinna site again. Two teams invented ideas which they had hacked together. Most of the participants were already seasoned FedEx Day gurus because they had participated in at least a couple of these events before. This time, we also have three interns working with us at the…

Annelise Cappy from Atlassian interviewed me to their blog about Ambientia’s ShipIt Days. It is a story how we have been trying to motivate people and reinvigorate the working environment at Ambientia. The interview quite well summarises the idea and the current situation. You can read the whole interview from Atlassian’s blog at https://www.atlassian.com/blog/archives/case-study-ambientia-galvanizes-employees-shipit-day  …

Ambientia has five offices in Finland and one in Sweden and also a couple people working from their homes. Because of the distributed nature of Ambientia’s offices, we have decided to do FedEx Days one office at a time. This is new territory now! It was the very first time we organised a FedEx Day…

I wrote about the problems with FedEx Days around the second day we had over here. The issue has given me a lot of thought. I have been trying to device different rules and guidelines that would drive the benefits of our people and also benefits of the company. It seems that the solution is…

Preparations and the idea At Ambientia we had our second FedEx Day last week. Before the day I had one lunch meeting with the team about the FedEx Day idea in general, and the stuff people were going to work with. My presentation about the concept owes mostly to Atlassian, Daniel Pink, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi and…

Our second FedEx Day is currently running. The team testing FedEx Day selected exciting ideas, and they are hacking with them as I write. Cool! I do not know if I am too narrow-minded or do I have two real problems with the FedEx Day concept… I honestly think that the team has generated loads…