Managing the delivery and daily operations for multiple complex projects responsible for the delivery of media that receives over 200 million play requests per month can be challenging at best. Imagine doing this and having your developer resource cut by a third! Changing ways of working in a ‘mature’ agile team of 50+ can in some ways be more challenging than introducing agile for the first time to a team. Everyone has an opinion and thinks they know how to ‘be agile’. In this session we talk about how, over the course of a year, we challenged ways of working for an ever shrinking team responsible for delivering media that receives over 200 million play requests per month. Our aim was to improve predictability of delivery without compromising software quality. This was achieved whilst continuously rolling out improvements and new capabilities to our service as well as providing 24/7 support.

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AGILE TIGER
JOEY FLINT & MARIA BALL
15TH OCTOBER 2016

3. 6 facts about BBC iPlayer

4. 1) BBC iPlayer is the UK’s number 1
online TV destination…

5. 2) …with over 3 billion programme
requests each year

6. 3) According to YouGov’s BrandIndex
survey, BBC iPlayer is the most positively
spoken about online brand in the UK

7. 4) There’s over 3,000 hours of television
content available at any time…

8. 5) …which can be accessed on
over 10,000 devices

9. 6) You can watch and re-start live TV or
download programmes and save for
later

10. 31 video channels 94 audio channels

11. 31 video channels 94 audio channels
Live Video - 22,320 h Live Audio - 67,680 h
OD Video - 4,000 h OD Audio - 44,040 h

12. 31 video channels 94 audio channels
Live Video - 22,320 h Live Audio - 67,680 h
OD Video - 4,000 h OD Audio - 44,040 h
Media requests: 847,443,335.00
* based on April 2016 data

13. 2.4 million

14. 2.4 million
2.4 Tb/sec

15. 2.4 million
2.4 Tb/sec
1,489,480,428*
*based on July 2016 data

16. January 2015

24. July 2016

39. "Creativity is thinking up new things.
Innovation is new things."
— Theodore Levitt

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