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Matthias Lübken The product guy
 @luebken How to scale product development when you no longer fit in one room
About me • Software Developer • Agile Coach • Director of software 
 development • The product guy • Herding cats
Microservice Infrastructure based on Docker. Visit http://giantswarm.io
What is your context?
Our setting • Company: A startup with product / market fit. • Process: Just do whatever works, and if you get stuck, ask s...
Our challenge • Scale product development • 1 4 teams. • 7 30 colleagues.
Our (implicit) vision “No process is a good process “It’s about the people and their interactions
Topics • Cross functional teams
 + Devops • Adaptive product roadmap • Feedback in dev teams • Continuous improvement • Ot...
(Cross) functional teams
Devel-
 opment Product Platform Adserver
Feature Team Devel-
 opment Product Feature Team Feature Team
Feature Team Devel-
 opment Product Feature Team Feature Team Functional Team
Feature Team Devel-
 opment Product Feature Team Feature Team Functional Team Goal A Goal B Goal C
Feature Team Devel-
 opment Product Feature Team Feature Team Functional Team Community of practice
Lessons learned • Slicing is hard • Restructuring is painful • Clear goal is crucial
DevOps
You build it. You run it.
Feature Team Devel-
 opment Product Feature Team Feature Team DevOps
DevOps team • Created in the dev teams • Lots to learn and understand • Extracted into functional team • Rotating 2nd leve...
Containers make you feel cozy
Lessons learned • Special challenges require specialists
Adaptive product roadmap
Our Kanban Board
Product Jour Fixe CPO Developer POs CEO/CTO Architect Other Agile Coach
Sprint Reviews
Lessons learned • High discipline needed • Be prepared for hard questions
Feedback in dev teams
Pairing vs PeerReview vs PullRequests
Standup vs DoneThis-Emails
Lessons learned • Be open to new ideas • Coach teams
<meta>   </meta> Continuous improvement
If you do one thing in your process do retrospectives.“
Small and big retrospectives
Authority boards see mangement30.com
Lessons learned • Optimise locally and globally • Take the time needed • Be a good pace maker • Make authority clear
Other ideas
No Blueprints • Blue Prints like SAFe don’t work • They are against all our instincts “Dave Snowden Put brutally SAFe seem...
Agile Scaling Cycle • Based principles and working Agile teams
 • "Autonomous business facing teams taking ownership of th...
Jimdo • Created culture manual • Feel good manager • Weekly Teamverløtung • Goal #1 • Open Prio Meetings > acknowledge mis...
•Pick practices that fit •Challenge yourself •Do collaborative change •Know your runway Take aways
Matthias Lübken The product guy
 @luebkenQuestions? Microservice Infrastructure based on Docker. Visit http://giantswarm.io
It’s hard but fun!
How to scale product development when you no longer fit in one room
How to scale product development when you no longer fit in one room
How to scale product development when you no longer fit in one room
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How to scale product development when you no longer fit in one room

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When growing a startup product development you encounter major challenges: How do you scale your product development teams? How do you keep as fast and responsive as you used to be? And how do you leverage the existing knowledge? In this talk I’ll show a couple of practices and rituals based around a Kanban board which captured our whole product development efforts with about 30 participants. I’ll show the design of the Kanban board, the policies and meetings around it and the personal duties ranging from a developer to a product manager up to the CEO. I will also compare it to other approaches from the community and what our lessons learned are.

Slides from the talk at the Jax: https://jax.de/2015/sessions/how-do-product-development-when-you-no-longer-fit-one-room

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How to scale product development when you no longer fit in one room

  1. Matthias Lübken The product guy
 @luebken How to scale product development when you no longer fit in one room
  2. About me • Software Developer • Agile Coach • Director of software 
 development • The product guy • Herding cats
  3. Microservice Infrastructure based on Docker. Visit http://giantswarm.io
  4. What is your context?
  5. Our setting • Company: A startup with product / market fit. • Process: Just do whatever works, and if you get stuck, ask someone in the room.
  6. Our challenge • Scale product development • 1 4 teams. • 7 30 colleagues.
  7. Our (implicit) vision “No process is a good process “It’s about the people and their interactions
  8. Topics • Cross functional teams
 + Devops • Adaptive product roadmap • Feedback in dev teams • Continuous improvement • Other ideas Your questions!
  9. (Cross) functional teams
  10. Devel-
 opment Product Platform Adserver
  11. Feature Team Devel-
 opment Product Feature Team Feature Team
  12. Feature Team Devel-
 opment Product Feature Team Feature Team Functional Team
  13. Feature Team Devel-
 opment Product Feature Team Feature Team Functional Team Goal A Goal B Goal C
  14. Feature Team Devel-
 opment Product Feature Team Feature Team Functional Team Community of practice
  15. Lessons learned • Slicing is hard • Restructuring is painful • Clear goal is crucial
  16. DevOps
  17. You build it. You run it.
  18. Feature Team Devel-
 opment Product Feature Team Feature Team DevOps
  19. DevOps team • Created in the dev teams • Lots to learn and understand • Extracted into functional team • Rotating 2nd level support in teams
 rotating participation in the DevOps team
  20. Containers make you feel cozy
  21. Lessons learned • Special challenges require specialists
  22. Adaptive product roadmap
  23. Our Kanban Board
  24. Product Jour Fixe CPO Developer POs CEO/CTO Architect Other Agile Coach
  25. Sprint Reviews
  26. Lessons learned • High discipline needed • Be prepared for hard questions
  27. Feedback in dev teams
  28. Pairing vs PeerReview vs PullRequests
  29. Standup vs DoneThis-Emails
  30. Lessons learned • Be open to new ideas • Coach teams
  31. <meta>   </meta> Continuous improvement
  32. If you do one thing in your process do retrospectives.“
  33. Small and big retrospectives
  34. Authority boards see mangement30.com
  35. Lessons learned • Optimise locally and globally • Take the time needed • Be a good pace maker • Make authority clear
  36. Other ideas
  37. No Blueprints • Blue Prints like SAFe don’t work • They are against all our instincts “Dave Snowden Put brutally SAFe seemed to be PRINCE II camouflaged in Agile language. ... SAFe is not only a betrayal of the promise offered by AGILE but is a massive retrograde step giving the managerial class an excuse to avoid any significant change.
  38. Agile Scaling Cycle • Based principles and working Agile teams
 • "Autonomous business facing teams taking ownership of their process.” @StefanRoock
 • http://scaledprinciples.org
  39. Jimdo • Created culture manual • Feel good manager • Weekly Teamverløtung • Goal #1 • Open Prio Meetings > acknowledge mistakes > have fun > strive for the best > ok to be crazy > no deadlines http://bit.ly/jimdostory
  40. •Pick practices that fit •Challenge yourself •Do collaborative change •Know your runway Take aways
  41. Matthias Lübken The product guy
 @luebkenQuestions? Microservice Infrastructure based on Docker. Visit http://giantswarm.io
  42. It’s hard but fun!

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