Leveraging Platforms to Achieve Speed at Scale • Tomas Varsavsky • YOW! 2018

This presentation was recorded at YOW! 2018. #GOTOcon #YOW https://yowcon.com Tomas Varsavsky - Chief Engineer at REA Group @tomasvarsavsky2616 RESOURCES https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomasvarsavsky https://twitter.com/tvars ABSTRACT Scaling #agile engineering organisations is hard. Today's truly agile organisations are built on small autonomous teams delivering value to customers. Autonomy and empowerment are great cultural traits but they have a dark side at scale -- they can create a lot of duplication and waste. How can organisations get economies of scale without undermining the very culture that they were built on? This talk is about how REA Group is taking a product approach to our internal platform to drive speed at scale. Our platform is called Colab and we are applying tried product techniques like brand, product lifecycle & customer satisfaction metrics to develop it. Importantly, we're taking an approach that embraces #AutonomousTeams and customer proximity so none of our cultural values are undermined. I'll focus on the key concept of treating internal platforms as products. I'll tell the story of how REA is doing this and provide some tips for listeners grappling with the same problem in their organisations. [...] RECOMMENDED BOOKS Kevlin Henney • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know • https://amzn.to/2Yahf9U Geoffrey West • Scale • http://amzn.to/3eKMbpc Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • http://amzn.to/3sVLyLQ Michael Jackson • Software Requirements and Specifications • https://amzn.to/3ql2T14 Donald G. Reinertsen • The Principles of Product Development Flow • https://amzn.to/3hJ2Ye https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #Platforms #Scale #SpeedAtScale #Productivity #SoftwareEngineering #Programming #Teams #TomasVarsavsky #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