Scaling Engineering at BlaBlaCar @ ScrumDays Warsaw 2016

Here's my presentation I gave, although with very few text on the slides. I invite you to have a look on the Google Slides behind this, where you can see the video and animated GIFs as well as check out the speaker notes: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1y4fq0xhqazIa17cnALsDM9GW_vipzo-UAQnDIuwZOhU/edit

Transcript

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