IDG Contributor Network: Let front-line workers champion your process

My Christmas has come in July for the last three years. That’s when Wrike’s product team holds its annual hackathon, where mixed teams of engineers, UX designers, project managers, and analysts spend 24 hours developing new features and improvements to our platform. They pull out all the stops and test the limits of rapid prototyping to develop concepts, and this year, 20 of the 24 teams were greenlit for production. It’s not necessarily an exercise meant to deploy new feature