slideshare's lean startup journey: lessons learnt

SlideShare's Lean Startup Journey

Agile India Conference 2012, Bangalore#agileindia2012

lessons learnt

Hello

Kapil MohanTechnical Architect, SlideShare Inc.Founding employee. Hacker.New Delhi based.wuff wuff@kapilmohan Beer, anyone?

http://www.slideshare.net/slidesharepro/slideshare-infographic-the-quiet-giant-of-content-marketing

Nov 2011

SlideShare is...

Youtube of Powerpoint Social media platform Content social network

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2012

2006

"Flickr started as a multi-player online game"

You'll be extinct if you can't adapt to changes fast

THE BIG BANG

is going to KILL you

THE BIG BANGis going to KILL you

Continuous deliveryThink tiny. Fail fast.

Minimum Viable Product style developementDoes not mean deploy broken features

Expect Technical Debt. Sometimes, time to market is more important than code. Fail fast.

Invest heavily in tools which provide clear visbility into the system

Automate everything.

Lean DNA#gofigure

Five whysDistributed Agile Teams

Lean is a paradigm shift.Agile is not the only way.

● Design to adapt fast.● Big Bang changes don't work. Pivot.● Do MVP● Monitor ruthlessly. Swear by Metrics.● Automate everything.● Lean is a DNA thing.● Five whys did not work.● Transformation to Lean is hard.

Thank You. Questions?

@kapilmohankapilmohan.com

slideshare.net/kapil