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Mobile Shift at XING: Next Level Scaling

Mobile Shift at XING: Next Level Scaling

Given at Apps World 2016

Alexander Greim

April 20, 2016
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  1. 4

  2. Phases of Mobile Scaling 10 1. Growing sole team 2.

    Distributing mobile people 3. Refocussing
  3. Modular Apps • Mobile relevant primary use cases • Sections

    evolve autonomously • Released every second week 11 … Fully functional agile team
  4. What is the platform team about? • Collaboration & Coordination

    • Integration & Automation • Releasing 13
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. What are the Platform Principles? 19 • We enable mobile

    product development at XING • We are thought leaders • Our internal tools and processes are products
  8. 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
  9. Optimising Time to Market • Reducing rollout time by 40%

    22 QA Pre-Release Development Stage LIVE Rollout Time
  10. Unifying Mobile Platforms • Extending our Modular UI • Watching

    closely Go Mobile, Swift on Android, React Native 23
  11. Backend-controlled native UI • Direct control over UI • No

    need to release new apps for certain changes 24