Evidence

Format Online paper / PDF

"Tinkering can also produce useful learning, internal innovations, and new capabilities beyond immediate customer problems."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 17: THE FOOD IS IN THE FOREST The Unescapable Garage

Source title Hack your organizational innovation: literature review and integrative model for running hackathons

Source authors Ben Heller; Atar Amir; Roy Waxman; Yossi Maaravi

Source year 2023

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"Connecting tinkering directly to customers’ pain points can help teams focus their experiments on concrete problems."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 17: THE FOOD IS IN THE FOREST The Unescapable Garage

Source title How our tiny hackathon turned into a quarterly creativity fest

Source authors Atlassian

Source year 2021

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Online paper / PDF

"Tinkering can help teams probe ideas, test assumptions, improve collaboration, and build new competence."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 17: THE FOOD IS IN THE FOREST The Unescapable Garage

Source title Improving Productivity through Corporate Hackathons: A Multiple Case Study of Two Large-scale Agile Organizations

Source authors Nils Brede Moe; Rasmus Ulfsnes; Viktoria Stray; Darja Smite

Source year 2021

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Online paper / PDF

"Person’s daily routines and production tasks can clash with tinkering time."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 17: THE FOOD IS IN THE FOREST The Unescapable Garage

Source title Improving Productivity through Corporate Hackathons: A Multiple Case Study of Two Large-scale Agile Organizations

Source authors Nils Brede Moe; Rasmus Ulfsnes; Viktoria Stray; Darja Smite

Source year 2021

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Traditionally, tinkering and experimenting have been welcomed in some tech spaces, including company-supported hackathons."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 17: THE FOOD IS IN THE FOREST The Unescapable Garage

Source title How our tiny hackathon turned into a quarterly creativity fest

Source authors Atlassian

Source year 2021

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"If you tinker with too many things at once without a way to separate their effects, you cannot reliably reconcile the true impacts of the tested technologies, interactions, or user experiences."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 17: THE FOOD IS IN THE FOREST The Unescapable Garage

Source title 5.2.1.2. One variable at a time

Source authors NIST/SEMATECH

Source year 2003

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Book / Offline paper

"In essence, when you hack, experiment, or tinker on a pilot project, you should pick one major thing to experiment with, and keep the surrounding work unchanged."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 17: THE FOOD IS IN THE FOREST The Unescapable Garage

Source title Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

Source authors Tom DeMarco; Tim Lister

Source year 2013

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Mike Monteiro argues that harmful practices inherited from an earlier generation should stop with the person who would otherwise pass them onward."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 17: THE FOOD IS IN THE FOREST The Bag of Life

Source title How to bury your father

Source authors Mike Monteiro

Source year 2025

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"Paul Graham contrasts the optimism of young hackers with the skepticism of experienced hackers when discussing software redesign."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 17: THE FOOD IS IN THE FOREST The Bag of Life

Source title Being Popular

Source authors Paul Graham

Source year 2001

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"This dance between optimism and skepticism helps makers evaluate and improve their solutions."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 17: THE FOOD IS IN THE FOREST The Bag of Life

Source title Being Popular

Source authors Paul Graham

Source year 2001

Confidence high

Importance high