gotober xp at unruly
DESCRIPTION
Unruly is the leading global platform for social video marketing. Founded in 2006, we now have 11 offices and employ over 125 people globally including Germany. We've been applying eXtreme Programming (XP) from the start and that's still a core part of how we develop our software products. As our company and customer base has grown, we've had to figure out how to shape user stories and make plans with stakeholders spread across US and Europe. We also have grown our tech team so we can continue to develop new product offerings with rich user-experience while improving our underlying infrastructure to handle a growing amount of traffic and data. Come to this session to hear about how we use XP and where we've had to make adjustments to adapt to scale.TRANSCRIPT
XP @ UNRULY
@rachelcdavies @unrulymedia
“XP is a lightweight methodology for small to medium sized teams developing software in the face of vague or rapidly changing requirements.”
Founded in 2006, Unruly is the leading global platform for social video marketing.
Agile Coach @Unruly
XP Practice Map
NOT SCRUM
HOW WE WORK
Sit Together, Informative Workspace
Pair PROGRAMMING
• Code together
• Discuss
• Share keyboard
• Problem solving
• Learn new things
• Teach new ways
• Share knowledge
RELEASE WHEN READY
INTERNAL USERS & STAKEHOLDERS SF NY LON HAM OSL STK PAR
SHARED VIEW
WHOLE TEAM x 3
Prod Mgr
Sw Eng
Infra
UX
Coach
EMBEDDED PRODUCT MANAGERS
EMBEDDED UX
EMBEDDED COACH
OUTREACH: LonE RANGER
PERSONAS FOR STORIES
STORY TIME
STORY PRIORITISATION (SPAM)
JOINT SPAM
RETROSPECTIVES
CONTINUOUS TIMELINE
VISIBLE SUPPORT
VISUALISING TYPES OF WORK
DOT COUNTING
Gold Cards
• 20% time for research
• Play with interesting technology
• Pitch ideas to business and visa versa
• Weekly catch ups over beer and snacks
LEARNING
• Tech Academy – 12 weeks new starters • Lighting Talks (every other Thu) • Lunchtime Coding Dojo (Wed) • Conference allowance (3days + £)
ENERGisED WORK
MISTEAKS
CONSISTENCY BETWEEN TEAMS
STORIES IN TARGET PROCESS IS THIS WASTE?
HOME Baked DEV INFRASTRUCURE
EXPERIMENTS
BREAKING THE FELLOWSHIP
Quarterly TEAM ROTATION
CROSS-TEAM PAIRING ON INFRASTRUCTURE
BORAT SQUAD
BORAT SQUAD
BORAT BOARD
DEVELOPERS DRIVE STORY DISCOVERY
TECH ACADEMY GRADUATION
Thank you!
More tomorrow: Keynote: “The Art of Embracing Change”
Beyond Agile: “Turning Product Management Upside-down”