Percy Pig stars as Engineering Days at Marks and Spencer goes live
Marks and Spencer has introduced a series of Engineering Day events.
Kicking off the first one last week, the retailer’s software engineers were asked to develop an idea of their choice - solely selected because of their interest and passion in it.
Entries ranging from a weather application using React, through to a Unity powered M&S Store were presented.
“Engineering Days are about creating a healthy engineering culture and emulating two of our technology behaviours: being bold and creating a fun place to work,” says Sam, M&S Software Development Manager.
“We want to promote an environment where continuous learning and sharing is at the forefront everything we do and where the passion that software engineers have for experimenting, pushing boundaries and creativity, is fully appreciated.”
After 1.5 hours of demos and presentations, an M&S internal judging panel (which included the nine year old daughter of M&S Technology colleague and 2020 RTIH Innovation Awards judge Sharon Peters) went into a 15 minute deliberation session where they reviewed submissions based on: innovation, creativity, fun, being bold and learning.
“The winning entry really embodied our Tech team’s values, with colleagues Ryan and Seb presenting an impressive Percy Pig face filter created using a variety of tools including Blender to learn 3D modelling.,” M&S said in an online post.
“The project stole the hearts of the team, and as you can see from the photo above, the engineers showcased their filter to the full and kept it on for the duration of the event.”
“This entry really captured the spirit of the day and was a worthy winner, it involved some in-depth learning and fun, which is exactly what Engineering Days are all about at M&S,” Peters comments.
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