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On the Use of Hackathons to Enhance Collaboration in Large Collaborative Projects

SADOVYKH Andrey, TRUSCAN Dragos, PIERINI Pierluigi, WIDFORSS Gunnar, ASHRAF Adnan, BRUNELIERE Hugo, SMRŽ Pavel, BAGNATO Alessandra, AFZAL Wasif and HORTELANO Alexandra E. On the Use of Hackathons to Enhance Collaboration in Large Collaborative Projects. In: Proceedings of the 2019 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, DATE 2019. Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition. New York: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2019, pp. 498-503. ISBN 978-3-9819263-2-3. Available from: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8715247
Czech title
Využití hackatonů jako nástroj posílení spolupráce ve velkých projektech
Type
conference paper
Language
english
Authors
Sadovykh Andrey (SOFTEAM)
Truscan Dragos (ABO)
Pierini Pierluigi (INTECS SOLUTIONS SPA)
Widforss Gunnar (MDH)
Ashraf Adnan (ABO)
Bruneliere Hugo (IMTA)
Smrž Pavel, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (DCGM FIT BUT)
Bagnato Alessandra (SOFTEAM)
Afzal Wasif (MUS)
Hortelano Alexandra E. (MDH)
URL
Keywords

hackathon, collaboration, project

Abstract

In this paper, we present the MegaM@Rt2 ECSEL project and discuss in details our approach for fostering collaboration in this project. We choose to use an internal hackathon approach that focuses on technical collaboration between case study owners and tool/method providers. The novelty of the approach is that we organize the technical workshop at our regular project progress meetings as a challenge-based contest involving all partners in the project. Case study partners submit their challenges related to the project goals and their use cases in advance. These challenges are concise enough to be experimented within approximately 4 hours. Teams are then formed to address those challenges. The teams include tool/method providers, case study owners and researchers/developers from other consortium members. On the hackathon day, partners work together to come with results addressing the challenges that are both interesting to encourage collaboration and convincing to continue further deeper investigations. Obtained results demonstrate that the hackathon approach stimulated knowledge exchanges among project partners and triggered new collaborations, notably between tool providers and use case owners.

Published
2019
Pages
498-503
Proceedings
Proceedings of the 2019 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, DATE 2019
Series
Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition
Conference
Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference, Florencie, IT
ISBN
978-3-9819263-2-3
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Place
New York, US
DOI
10.23919/DATE.2019.8715247
UT WoS
000470666100091
EID Scopus
2-s2.0-85066604509
BibTeX 
@INPROCEEDINGS{FITPUB12243,
   author = "Andrey Sadovykh and Dragos Truscan and Pierluigi Pierini and Gunnar Widforss and Adnan Ashraf and Hugo Bruneliere and Pavel Smr\v{z} and Alessandra Bagnato and Wasif Afzal and E. Alexandra Hortelano",
   title = "On the Use of Hackathons to Enhance Collaboration in Large Collaborative Projects",
   pages = "498--503",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2019 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, DATE 2019",
   series = "Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition",
   year = 2019,
   location = "New York, US",
   publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers",
   ISBN = "978-3-9819263-2-3",
   doi = "10.23919/DATE.2019.8715247",
   language = "english",
   url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/12243"
}
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