How we build things on Skroutz.gr by applying agile/scrum practices to everyday development? George Chatzigeorgiou, CEO & Co-Founder of Skroutz.gr and head engineer introduces "Karate" process.

1. How we build things in Skroutz...

2. @banditaras
github.com/bandito
Who am I

3. The Product
3 Flavors
100+ People
~700+ commits / month
~100K+ LOC
~170M+ pageviews / month

4. Teams - Few
Communication - Interrupts
Features - Over engineering
Features - Overlapping
Prioritization - Yes & No
Product Ownership - No
Planning - Yes & No
The Problem

5. is born...
Scrum
Kanban
Xp programming

6. NarrativeTweaking
Building
The Process - Cycle
Idea

7. Ideas come from everybody… How?
Focus on the Product
The Process - Idea

8. Write your Idea
Product Brief
Design Document
The Process - Narrative

9. Small Iterations (1 or 2 weeks)
Team responsible for Review
Code Reviews
Translation Reviews
The Process - Building

10. QA
Team Review | Retro feature
Other teams review feature
The Process - Tweaking

11. Less pain for the developer
Build a better Product with teams
Teams should learn to collaborate
Karate goals

12. Thank you!