Digicorp

Thank you for your patience so far in getting results of the Coding War Games. But before announcing the result I would again thank all of the participants. They really did it and they have the stemina and determination to prove their point in 24 hours. 

Total 6 teams participated in this event having 4 members each and all of them coded for 24 hours non stop. Obviously the output after 24 hours was not perfect but good enough to measure the skills of each of them. I am sure all of them learnt a lot out of this event and will do much better next time.

Now let me tell you how did we evaluate each teams work:

1) We put the demos of each team on demo server.

2) Our QA team extensively tested the applications for one week on various criteria 

3) They came out with the final report.

As per the report 2 teams were having close fight.

One team was of Chirag’s and the other was of Amit’s. Both the teams were from Deewar (.NET department). Team members are as follow.

a) Chirag 
Nishant
Hitesh
Urvish

They have produced following in 24 hours.

b) Amit
Dhruval
Virat
Dhaval

and they have produced following in 24 hours

http://demo.digi-corp.com/ORS/Default.aspx

There are lots of bugs and many of the things may not be working but that is understood when you have to code about 1-2 man months work in 24 hours, effectively 6-8 man days.

Both of them had almost similar functionality done and almost similar kind of issues. But one has to be the winner out of them and the winner is DreamUpload!! i.e. Chirag’s team :)

They have done fantastic job in 24 hours and they deserve this trophy.

Once again thank you all the participants for making this event a success. The best thing about the event was the level of energy and committment people showed in those 24 hours.

From the feedback which I have received so far developers are looking forward to such events in future and that gives me hope of coming with something new very soon.

All the teams had lot of fun while coding for 24 hours at a stretch. I was really surprised at the level of sincerity in this event. Most of them did not even move much while coding for 24 hours. At 2-3 am in the night work was being done as if it is the matter of life and death.

Thank you all the participants for making this event a success. I would write a detail post about this later on may be but meanwhile enjoy following 2 videos created out the photos I had taken. Keep the speakers on.

Ok so the much awaited Coding War Game is started and following is the definition of the software they are supposed to build in 24 hours!!

Objective:
Every year in India thousands of students graduates from Engineering and other colleges after completing their final semester project. Every year hundreds of interesting projects gets done but after graduation they are forgotten and kept aside. This is a major problem because lots of talent gets wasted in this process. 6 Months of students life goes in vein just like that.

Solution:
Solution is to build online global repository where these students can submit their project details and can make them available for others perusal. Interested students can search for interesting ideas for their final semester projects or corporates can look out for students who have done exceptional projects in their working domain. Students and Corporates can rate the projects and thus credibility of the creator is increased.

Implementation:
Allow students to register to the site using following fields

Name*:
College Name*:
College Location:
Stream:
Year/Semester:
Contact Number:
Email*:
Username*:
Password*:

- email activation is not required. neither admin approval is required in user registration.
- user should be able to login with username/password and should be able to edit his profile details.
- user should be able to logout from the site.

- allow students to upload their project work which may contain following fields
1) Project Name*
2) Project Description*
3) Company at which project is done
4) UML diagrams
5) DFD
6) ER Diagram
7) Project report
8 ) Demo Presentation
9) Company Profile
10) Various other documents depending on the field of student and project

- users have ability to make their data (4 to 10) downloadable or not downloadable
- users should be able to edit the project data.
- admin approval is not required for projects to get activated on client side.
- allow unregistered or registered members of the site to search for the projects on keywords
- display search result in visually appealing manner (use your creativity)
- display project details in visually appealing manner (use your creativity)
- to contact the creator of the project one has to register and login (this will be corporates who are interested in hiring the person or knowing more about the project).

- Allow companies to register using following fields
Company Name*
Address
Contact Number
Brief about company
Email*
Username*
Password*

- registered companies can login and contact the creator of the project.
- registered companies can also modify their profile
- registered students can also login and contact the creator of the project
- allow registered and unregistered users to rate the projects and put their comments on project detail page.
- Homepage/Front page should contain
1) recently uploaded projects
2) highest rated projects
3) recent comments by users on projects
4) recently registered companies
5) search facility
5) register/login

- You are free to add any other feature on homepage
- You can use your creativity to design the application and to decide the workflow.

Here is the deal for next developer event @ Digicorp:

1) This is completely voluntary event so people are free to participate and not to participate without any hard feelings.

2) You are encouraged to make teams of 4. You can choose team members with whom you would like to work with. Make teams in your department only. For e.g. .NET developer can not pair up with PHP developer.

3) One statement of work will be given to each team having detailed milestones. All teams will have same statement of work.

4) 24-hours will be given to each team to work on the statement of work on their choice of technology.

5) Yes!! that means The Coding War game will start at 10 AM on one day and will finish on 10 AM the next day.

6) You as a team have to plan, code, test whatever you complete in 24 hours. It is not compulsory to complete the whole thing but if you can you have high chances of winning.

7) Lunch, Dinner, Tea, Resources everything you need will be provided by company.

8 ) Rules of the event will be sent to you before hand.

9) This will be head to head competition with fellow developers and will be a great chance to know your skills, strengths, mind under stress and in team.

10) Products developed from each team will be installed for few days after competition and our QA team will test them extensively and we will be doing the code review for few days.

11) We are planning to hold this event on this Saturday. I know its a Holiday but developers who are participating will get a holiday on Monday. As I said earlier this a great chance to know your skills, strengths, mind under stress and also of your team members.

12) Project definition will not be a live requirement from client so don’t worry we do not plan to sell your efforts after 24 hours

13) It is necessary to hold this event on Weekend so that we do not disturb other developers who are not participating. We are going to make lot of noise on achievement of each milestone. It is like a Race.

14) Developers who are not participating do not have to come to see the event. But they are always welcome to see what is happening at 3 AM in the night!! We may be at the Kitli drinking hot tea!!

15) Winning teams will be getting a party from Digicorp and a trophy.

The idea of Coding War Games is taken from wonderful book called “Peopleware” by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister which I am reading right now. The book is about creating and maintaining Productive Projects and Teams. It is the same book that inspired us to start this blog.

Looking forward to teams for this event. It is going to be one hell of an event and one of its kind at Digicorp.

What do you do to ignite fire in your development teams?