2. +
Agenda
Where we started
The steps we took (=> Sprints)
Learnings along the way (=> Retrospectives)
Where we are today
The road ahead (=> Backlog)
3. +
Jabong.com
To be our customer’s favorite lifestyle fashion destination
Unparalleled Assortment => +1.3Lac; 1000+ brands,
Exclusive tie-ups, Private Label, Marketplace
Superior buying experience
Responsive Customer Service
Great place to work
Categories
Apparel, Footwear, Jewelry and Accessories
Men, Women, Kids
5. +
Offices
Headquarters in Gurgaon (Udyog Vihar)
Development Center
Customer Care Center in Gurgaon (Udyog Vihar)
Mumbai – recently started
Satellite Development Center in Noida
Development Center in Bangalore – soon
Warehouses & Packaging Centers
6. +
Growth and accolades
Some recent awards
Pure-Play eRetailer of the Year Award at Indian eRetail Awards 2013
Most “Impactful Launch” at Pitch Brands 50 Awards in 2013
Excellence in eCommerce Award by eTailing India Expo 2013
Founded in Dec 2011 (2+ years)
Current Alexa India Rank: 29
7. +
Where we started
Small team working on new technology platform (at web scale)
Many requirements were verbal
Release deadlines were skipping
Mini death marches
2 releases a week. 1 Ticket per release. 1 or both rolled back.
Growing Tech debt
Stakeholders wanted features “yesterday”
10. +
Sprint 1 > Retrospective
• Spend (time) on trainings.
• Get genuine buy-ins.
Internal Agile
training
• Brought focusSetup Teams
• Gurgaon Traffic + Individual Preferences
=> Let them self organizeDaily scrums
• Made stakeholders think before
requesting a feature
Accept non-verbal
requirements
11. +
Sprint 2
Hire Agile experts
(+Internal Trainings)
Setup tools
Colocation
Estimation
(Man days)
Tracking
(Bug Density & Rollbacks)
12. +
Sprint 2 > Retrospective
• Just-in-time training works
great
Hire Agile experts
(+Internal Trainings)
• JIRA worked wellSetup tools
• Colo => Non-colo => Colo
=> Central
Colocation
• StartEstimation
(Man days)
• +Transparency => +QualityTracking
(Bug Density & Rollbacks)
20. +
Where we are today
We (can) release to production daily
At times twice or even thrice
~40 tickets per week. 3-10 tickets per release
Major releases are predictable (to the day)
No death marches
Low Tech debt
Stakeholders are reasonably satisfied