How to Scale Everything, Not Just Technology • Lea Medhurst • YOW! 2018

This presentation was recorded at YOW! 2020. #GOTOcon #YOW https://yowcon.com Lea Medhurst - CTO at Revelian @LeaMedhurst ORIGINAL TALK TITLE From Brisbane to the World - How to Scale Everything (not just Technology) to Take on the World RESOURCES https://twitter.com/LeaMedhurst https://www.linkedin.com/in/leamedhurst ABSTRACT Revelian has dominated the Australian market in its chosen field of #DataDriven human behaviour insights however the task of taking our small software as a service company to the world has been a challenge. In this session Lea will share how #Revelian transformed much of the the business to land 3 of the top companies in the world as clients. We will cover the obvious aspects of transforming the technology utilizing technologies like #serverless but also tell a story on how the entire business needed to transform to support global clients. We also cover how the culture of Revelian needed to transform and how the technology team influenced that direction. Attendees will also learn how a forming a coherent strategy will help achieve the goal of going global. Lea will present example of strategy documents and how they can be used to translate the vision to the rest of the business. The session will wrap up with the top 10 lessons we have learnt from going from a small operation next to Bunnings in Stafford to a global force in human resource software as a service. [...] RECOMMENDED BOOKS Forsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps • https://amzn.to/3tCz1xO John Arundel & Justin Domingus • Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes • https://amzn.to/3hKZvI5 Wynne, Hellesoy & Tooke • The Cucumber Book • https://amzn.to/3tEUINJ Eric Ries • The Lean Startup • https://amzn.to/396fOva https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #ScalingUp #SoftwareEngineering #Programming #LeaMedhurs #YOWcon Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1