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Hello…
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Head of
Technolog
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Broadcast fixed deadlines
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Broadcast fixed deadlines
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BBC Sport refresh
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BBC Sport refresh
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BBC Live
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BBC Live
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Surviving a few beasts…
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Surviving a few beasts…
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Who are your stakeholders?
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Who are your stakeholders?
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Who are your stakeholders?
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Who are your stakeholders?
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Who are your stakeholders?
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Who are your stakeholders?
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• What is our goal?
• Define problem and who our customer is
• What do we want to learn?
• What’s the minimum we can build to test
that?
• How do we measure success?
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Build a platform for live events that can be easily tailored to
suit a wide range of events, which we can continually iterate
and improve over time to provide the best-possible
experience across four screens - PC, tablet, mobile and
connected TV.
The underlying technology had to be scalable across the BBC,
giving us the capability to bring even more live events to
audiences digitally.
Speed/load was a key consideration with live events as we’d
need to update the page more frequently.
GOAL
PROBLEM
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We used Socket.IO and Sock JS using node.js to see how
quickly we could achieve horizontal scaling to n users for
the back end…
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We used Socket.IO and Sock JS using node.js to see how
quickly we could achieve horizontal scaling to n users for
the back end…
We needed a stable, scalable, future proof framework that
would enable use to create inter-actionable components.
We spiked using Backbone, Ember and Angular
In the end we chose Angular for the front end
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Comms
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Comms
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Delivery and approach
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Visibility of progress
Know how fast the team is working – and
how many sprints will deliver the proposed
MVP
time = ( / ) *
e.g.
time = (300 pts / 20 pts) * 2 weeks = 30 weeks (or 15
iterations)
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Visibility of progress
Know how fast the team is working – and
how many sprints will deliver the proposed
MVP
time = ( / ) *
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time = (300 pts / 20 pts) * 2 weeks = 30 weeks (or 15
iterations)
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MVP
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24
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25
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Parallel Tracks
development
+2 sprints (ideation)
+1 sprint (design)
0 (current sprint)
-1 (last sprint)
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Shiny HAPPY people
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Shiny HAPPY people
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Shiny HAPPY people
GDS chief Mike Bracken CBE shared the
secret of how to make a happy workplace with
an American audience in 2013
“Hire the very finest minds in digital and
dress them in onesies. Have some fun while
you’re doing it. Insist on Hawaiian shirts –
absolutely de rigueur. Make sure your
insignia is good. And have lots of cake. And
make sure there's stickers. You can’t beat a
few stickers for your laptop!”
Source: TheRegister
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Shiny HAPPY people
GDS chief Mike Bracken CBE shared the
secret of how to make a happy workplace with
an American audience in 2013
“Hire the very finest minds in digital and
dress them in onesies. Have some fun while
you’re doing it. Insist on Hawaiian shirts –
absolutely de rigueur. Make sure your
insignia is good. And have lots of cake. And
make sure there's stickers. You can’t beat a
few stickers for your laptop!”
Source: TheRegister
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Shiny HAPPY people
GDS chief Mike Bracken CBE shared the
secret of how to make a happy workplace with
an American audience in 2013
“Hire the very finest minds in digital and
dress them in onesies. Have some fun while
you’re doing it. Insist on Hawaiian shirts –
absolutely de rigueur. Make sure your
insignia is good. And have lots of cake. And
make sure there's stickers. You can’t beat a
few stickers for your laptop!”
Source: TheRegister
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TRUST
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TRUST
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Team members need to think of the rest
of the team as "us", not "them”
You need to trust that taking time to help
others won't make you look unproductive.
You need to trust that you'll be treated with
respect when you ask for help
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Always be honest about your
achievements.
Avoid the temptation to whitewash problems
or misrepresent partially-done work.
Create a no blame culture
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Your team – Tuckman’s Model
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Your team – Tuckman’s Model
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Your team – Tuckman’s Model
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Your team – Tuckman’s Model
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Your team – Tuckman’s Model
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• Blog posts
• Conferences / brownbag sessions
• Github / Behance / Dribbble
• Washup
• Awards
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Any questions? I’m on that Twitter too…
@unharmonic