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Or 'How to turn a Hack Day into something commercial' Anyone who has worked in an IT company or has been a developer will have been involved in a 'Hack Day' at one time or another. For the uninitiated, these are events that involve the 'techies' and usually involve them spending the day 'off project' working on some kind of tool that will help them develop more easily. Now, before I get loads of comments from you lovely development people, I'm certainly not trying to belittle the work you do on these days as I know the results can be valuable to you and in turn, to us Product Managers. So, as a Product Manager, I'm going to be far more interested in a Hack Day if I can get involved and come out of it with something properly useful to me. During normal projects, I never get chance to mess around with new ideas as all of my projects have to be done to deliver a commercial product on a tight budget and carefully considered commercial requireme...