Валерій Шипунов “Чи це та гра, в котру ви хочете грати?” Lviv Freelance Forum 2014 Autumn

1. Is it your game?
Valerii Shypunov
Lviv Freelance Forum 2014

2. About me
• CTO & co-founder of CMD
• Hired 40 people, fired 10 people
• I know how to work with Norwegians
• I have 2 daughters
• Building products for biggest media-companies in
Norway
• Running own products

3. Street-smart
• Technical background
• No management experience

4. Managers
• You don`t need managers.
• Good managers are not interested in you.
• Do it yourself first.
• “OK, i`ll hire that guy or girl, so he will be doing what i`m
doing now”

5. Self-organizing teams
• Who are they?
• Why are they needed?
• So, how to take a normal team, and make it self-organizing?
• Self-organizing or self-organized or self-managed?
• My way

6. QAs
• OK clickers
• Developers don`t give a shit about money
• Managers don`t give a shit about a product
• Writing = getting things out of your head
• Forget about the QA processes and techniques.
• Yes, i know that we need automation

7. Culture
• ‘Delivering happiness’ book
• OK, it`s cool to have such things in our culture -
because those companies have them.
• Just look around.
• First employees are your transmitters of culture
• They will also leave

8. Rates
• How to get a better rate?
• How to find a better customer?
• Who do you compete with?
• Talk to people
• Go there, visit an event

9. Norway
• Met a partner more less on the street
• For 3 years, every month spending a week in Norway,
having 5-7 meetings a day
• Found out a studio, worked as sub-contractor
• Now - working with biggest media companies in Norway

10. Questions
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