Comment by lanstin

Just do it at work. All this side project stuff is ok but a lot more stress (I.e. deep thought killer) than just being a bad attitude employee and doing something awesome because you think it will be good. Don’t spend too long on it. If your learn something, you win. If it is useful to other people at your job, double win. The worst type of employee or a software project is the well-intentioned sincerely obedient one. That is how mega disasters happen in software. Despite sprint scheduling stuff, you can take a week and play with some new stuff. You will look bad in Standup for a while, but cost of victory is looking bad for a little in some bogus unimportant context. When you finish the new thing, write a story for it and then sell the hell out of it to the other people.