BBC account : Engineering Excellence at Strictly Scale

Learn how the BBC account team built a culture of engineering best practices to build the BBC's new account sign-in system at scale.

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1. WOMEN IN TECH CONFERENCE SALFORD FEBRUARY 2018
2. BBC ACCOUNT ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE AT STRICTLY SCALE WOMEN IN TECH CONFERENCE SALFORD FEBRUARY 2018
3. MARC LITTLEMORE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TEAM LEAD BBC account front-end team W12 & Salford @marclittlemore github.com/marcl linkedin.com/in/marclittlemore
4. WHAT DO WE DO? BBC account
8. “GATEWAY TO PERSONALISATION”
9. THE PUBLIC LOVE IT BBC account
14. THE TEAM CARES
15. HOW DO WE ENSURE THE BEST USER EXPERIENCE?
16. HOW DO WE ENSURE ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE AT SCALE?
17. STRICTLY SCALE
19. WRITE MAINTAINABLE CODE
21. NOT JUST ABOUT WRITING CODE
22. CODING STANDARDS & CONSISTENCY
25. LINTING & FORMATTING
26. THERE ARE NO BUGS IF WE WRITE LESS CODE
27. COMMUNICATION
28. PAIR PROGRAMMING
29. PULL REQUESTS & CODE REVIEWS
30. WHAT’S CHANGED?
31. EXPLAIN YOUR THINKING
32. KNOWLEDGE SHARING IS KIND OF A BIG DEAL
33. TESTS, TESTS, TESTS EVERYWHERE
34. AUTOMATE EVERYTHING
36. ALWAYS LEAVE THE CAMPSITE CLEANER THAN YOU FOUND IT
37. NEW CODE IS POTENTIAL TECHNICAL DEBT
38. ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE MEANS…
39. ENSURING CODE QUALITY
40. THANKS FOR LISTENING! @marclittlemore
41. WE HAVE OPEN ROLES @marclittlemore