Scaling Engineering at BlaBlaCar @ InfoShare Gdansk 2016

BlaBlaCar is growing fast, so is its Tech department. We face huge challenges, and huge growth. This will be the story of how we got where we are (100+ tech people by May 2016) and what we did to keep the team efficient and happy.

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1. Scaling Engineering @
2. @cestcri Christian Jennewein Head of Engineering github.com/cestcri linkedin.com/in/christianjennewein
3. My story is about … a case study, 1 video & 18 animated GIFs • 2012 - today • 3 ◦ Fails ◦ Learnings ◦ successes
4. BlaBlaCar?!
6. CASE STUDY
7. 2012 - today
9. Perfect world 2012
11. Growing team = growing challenges 2013
13. Reaching & plateauing at cruising altitude 2014
15. Next reorganisation: needed, planned, implemented 2015
17. Autonomy scales 2016
18. 3 fails 3 learnings 3 successes
19. 3 fails
20. Weary scrum teams
21. Weary scrum teams Declining productivity & team morale
22. Language barrier
23. Language barrier How to get people to understand each other?
24. Innovation days
25. Innovation days How to ensure constant renewal?
26. 3 learnings
27. Distance
28. Distance Reduce it as much as possible
29. The right people
30. The right people Keep expectations & entry barrier high
31. Chapters & Guilds
32. Chapters & Guilds How to sync dispatched experts?
33. 3 successes
34. Team culture
35. Team culture Define, live & spread
36. Agile coaches
37. Agile coaches Building a team of dedicated, full-time coaches
38. Need of a second engineering hub Geographic scaling
39. How to keep the team growing? Geographic scaling
40. To summarise …
41. We build
42. We measure
43. We learn
44. We repeat
45. We build. We measure. We learn. We repeat.
46. Thank you :) Questions ?