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
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2. @cestcri
   Christian Jennewein
   Head of Engineering
   github.com/cestcri
   linkedin.com/in/christianjennewein
   

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3. BlaBlaCar?!
   

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5. CASE STUDY
   

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6. 2012 - today
   

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8. Perfect world
   2012
   

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10. Growing team = growing challenges
    2013
    

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12. Reaching & plateauing at cruising altitude
    2014
    

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14. Next reorganisation: needed, planned, implemented
    2015
    

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16. Autonomy scales
    2016
    

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17. 3 fails
    3 learnings
    3 successes
    

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18. 3 fails
    

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19. Weary scrum teams
    

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20. Weary scrum teams
    Declining productivity & team morale
    

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21. Language barrier
    

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22. Language barrier
    How to get people to understand each other?
    

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23. Innovation days
    

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24. Innovation days
    How to ensure constant renewal?
    

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25. 3 learnings
    

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26. Distance
    

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27. Distance
    Reduce it as much as possible
    

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28. The right people
    

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29. The right people
    Keep expectations & entry barrier high
    

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30. Chapters & Guilds
    

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31. Chapters & Guilds
    How to sync dispatched experts?
    

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32. 3 successes
    

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33. Team culture
    

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34. Team culture
    Define, live & spread
    

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35. Agile coaches
    

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36. Agile coaches
    Building a team of dedicated, full-time coaches
    

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37. Need of a second engineering hub
    Geographic
    scaling
    

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38. How to keep the team growing?
    Geographic
    scaling
    

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39. To summarise …
    

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40. We build
    

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41. We measure
    

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42. We learn
    

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43. We repeat
    

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44. We build.
    We measure.
    We learn.
    We repeat.
    

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45. Thank you :)
    

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