Some weeks ago I ran into Joe Justice fromWIKISPEED after one of his presentations. Well, not literally of course, I’m not real. And it wasn’t like he bumped into a computer. Anyway, it was the same day he and Jurgen Appelo agreed to make WIKISPEED aHappy Melly company. For Joe it was a remarkable day in many ways, he also got acquainted with the joys of typical Dutch cuisine (Smashed vegies and potatoes, I kid you not). This week I gave him a call to talk about his plans for the future. The best part? I got to meet his furry companion Scrum Cat (a spitting image for grumpy cat).
Today was a good day for learning, mostly for the adults, but very likely for the kids too. Thanks to my Integrative Studio class, I was going to be sitting in on a discussion with Joe Justice who recently spoke at TEDxRanier about his Wiki Speed project.
The open-hardware movement got a tremendous boost today when WIKISPEED, an innovative automotive company building modular, high-performance cars using agile design principles, and Open Source Ecology (OSE), a group committed to providing free plans and processes necessary for building the global economy, announced that they are teaming up to revolutionize transportation in the developing world.
Fasten your seatbelts folks; this is going to be a wild ride. We are very proud to announce that Joe Justice and the incredible people of WIKISPEED have joined Happy Melly.They will be, in their own words, ‘An enthusiastic proponent of this platform for focus on creating jobs that employees will love while knocking down barriers to internationalization for corporations of all sizes. Because that is awesome.’
WIKISPEED is a volunteer based green automotive-prototyping company, that's distributed around the world and coming together on a Kerika board to design and build safe, low-cost, ultra-efficient, road-legal vehicles.
TEDx is an international community that organizes TED-style events anywhere and everywhere -- celebrating locally-driven ideas and elevating them to a global stage. TEDx events are produced independently of TED conferences, each event curates speakers on their own, but based on TED's format and rules.
Scrum accelerates any effort. Yesterday at Agile DC 2013 a group of people who didn't know each other, most of whom probably have never changed the oil in their car and have likely never thought they could do it built a car in three thirty-minute Sprints. And they had a blast doing it.
In August 2012, ASKlabs produced a microdocumentary about the MIT Vehicle Design Summit, featuring Co-Founders Anna Jaffe (Environmental Science MIT '06) and Nii Armar (Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT '08). Founded in 2006 with the goals of reducing waste in auto manufacturing and reducing global carbon emissions from vehicles, this dynamic MIT student group has grown to become an international design and engineering collective. To date they have built 4 prototype alternative-fuel vehicles at over 200mpge efficiency, and a vehicle intended for the Indian market that was built in Italy. The current iteration of the group is about to begin road-testing their ArchiMITes prototype vehicle which will be the basis for developing a modular car platform. The modular subsystems will be: Auxilliary Power Unit (APU)/fuel, body, dashboard, suspension, and chassis. In 2013 MIT's Vehicle Design Summit will launch their biggest initiative yet, the 10^5 Competition which will result in 100,000 permutations of vehicles that will achieve 100mpge or greater.
Paul Takken of Xebia, a partner of my dayjob at Scrum Inc., and an Agile consultancy based in the Netherlands, sent me this note. It exudes the “Agile Mindset”, a positivity in keeping with the 12 Agile Principles and 4 Agile Values from The Agile Manifesto (http://www.agilemanifesto.org/). It’s brilliant, in my opinion, and I believe this post will transform several business and individuals for even more awesome:
Start planning to attend the collocated Agile Development West and Better Software West Conferences in Las Vegas, June 1–6 and make the most of your learning experience by attending the first interactive AgileBuild. Attendees from both conferences will help in building a car that gets 100 miles per gallon and meets US road and safety standards. Experience the unique opportunity to work side by side with Joe Justice, a consultant at Scrum Inc. and founder of Team WIKISPEED, to learn how agile is being used in extreme manufacturing and learn firsthand how the agile mindset can be applied to your entire business.
Joe Justice is a consultant at Scrum Inc. and inventor of the Extreme Manufacturing project management method. He also is the founder of Team WIKISPEED, an all-Scrum volunteer-based, "green” automotive prototyping company.
Joe builds a car. A very fuel efficient one. He does this with lots of different people from all over the world. And he uses Scrum. At this Agile Holland Meetup, Joe Justice talks about Wikispeed.
Extreme Manufacturing is a set of technical practices and management principles to go from an idea to a product or service in the customers hands in less than 7 days. This involves Agile design, Agile manufacturing, Scrum teams, Kanban flow optimizations, Radical Management, Lean and TPS, rapid prototyping tools and practices, Scrum vendor practices, and Extreme Programing technical practices.
Last week I had the opportunity to participate in an “Extreme Manufacturing” event at Lockheed. The event was run by Joe Justice of WikiSpeed, and organized by Scrum Inc. The plan was that by using agile methodologies, we would build a street legal car capable of getting 100 mpg in six half hour “sprints”.
Free Open Source Software Academia (FOSSA) is celebrating 50 years in 2013! WIKISPEED, as an open source project, is giving back to the landscape of open source work. Even more importantly, projects like WIKISPEED build on all the open source tools that have been build up to make distributed, collaborative projects like this affordable to anyone with passion and about 2 hours a week!
WikiSpeed is a social enterprise applying cutting-edge collaboration techniques from the open-source software world, to solve problems for social good.
eXtreme Manufacturing Build Party Workshop: Agile beyond software delivery teams is key for maximizing ROI of the entire business. Get hands on experience with Agile for hardware by building a WIKISPEED car with the founder of Team WIKISPEED. You’ll immerse in Object Oriented Architecture, Scrum team delivery, and XP practices to create the ah-ha! moment to apply agile across your organization. No hardware experience is required, but do bring any mechanics tool or gear you may have!”
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