Mobile Shift at XING: Next Level Scaling

Given at Apps World 2016

Transcript

1. Mobile shift at XING: Next level scaling AppsWorld Berlin 20.04.2016
2. Alexander Greim Magith Noohukhan Evangelist at XING @magithn Director Mobile Engineering @iltempo
3. For a better working life
5. Background 5
6. 6 Successful Web Business
7. Rapid growth of mobile usage 7
8. Mobile was treated “AS SIMILAR AS ANOTHER PRODUCT”
9. Mobile development NOW
10. Phases of Mobile Scaling 10 1. Growing sole team 2. Distributing mobile people 3. Refocussing
11. Modular Apps • Mobile relevant primary use cases • Sections evolve autonomously • Released every second week 11 … Fully functional agile team
12. Establishing the platform team 12
13. What is the platform team about? • Collaboration & Coordination • Integration & Automation • Releasing 13
14. Important differences • First place customers are internal teams instead of users • Caring less about the “what” but more about the “how” • Planning migrations instead of just changing things 14
15. Going through that change 15 Topic Support Different impact on users and the company • Introducing Platform Principles Different visibility inside the company • Running company-wide mobile specific events • Starting internal marketing Community thinking • Running communities of practice • Regular exchanges • Introducing processes where needed Personal needs • Helping to switch teams if requested
16. “Shape roles and apply early” 16
17. “Coordinate and communicate changes actively” 17
18. “Collect feedback early” 18
19. What are the Platform Principles? 19 • We enable mobile product development at XING • We are thought leaders • Our internal tools and processes are products
20. Innovation in a platform world 20 • Innovation can be introduced by anyone • Platform team is making sense out of it • Hack Weeks 4 times a year
21. What’s ahead? 21
22. Optimising Time to Market • Reducing rollout time by 40% 22 QA Pre-Release Development Stage LIVE Rollout Time
23. Unifying Mobile Platforms • Extending our Modular UI • Watching closely Go Mobile, Swift on Android, React Native 23
24. Backend-controlled native UI • Direct control over UI • No need to release new apps for certain changes 24
25. Thank you for your attention.