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Hackathons are events in which diverse teams work together to explore, anddevelop solutions, software or even ideas. Hackathons have been recognized notonly as public events for hacking, but also as a corporate mechanism forinnovation. Hackathons are a way for established companies to achieve increasedemployee wellbeing as well as being a curator for innovation and developing newproducts. Sudden transition to the work-from-home mode caused by the COVID-19pandemic first put many corporate events requiring collocation, such ashackathons, temporarily on hold and then motivated companies to find ways tohold these events virtually. In this paper, we report our findings frominvestigating hackathons in the context of a large agile company by firstexploring the general benefits and challenges of hackathons and then trying tounderstand how they were affected by the virtual setup. We conducted nineinterviews, surveyed 23 employees and analyzed a hackathon demo. We found thathackathons provide both individual and organizational benefits of innovation,personal interests, and acquiring new skills and competences. Severalchallenges such as added stress due to stopping the regular work, employeesfearing not having enough contribution to deliver and potential mismatchbetween individual and organizational goals were also found. With respect tothe virtual setup, we found that virtual hackathons are not diminishing theinnovation benefits, however, some negative effect surfaced on the social andnetworking side.

Innovation in Large-scale agile -- Benefits and Challenges of Hackathons when Hacking from Home