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Radical Agility with Autonomous Teams and Microservices
[email protected] Lean Day, Helsinki, 24th of May 2016
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by Florian Hirzinger - www.fh-ap.com
15 countries 18+ million active customers ~160 million visits per month ~3 billion € revenue 2015 10.000+ employees 100+ nationalities Tech HQ in Berlin
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Somewhere along the way…
Some time ago we realized we’re in a situation where:
• we had a monolith which was hard to develop further
• built on not-a-very-modern tech stack
• control killed the innovation
• slow to release new features
• teams didn’t have E2E responsibility
And three major areas to be changed
1) Culture
2) Organization
3) Architecture and Technologies used
FROM COMMAND & CONTROL TO PURPOSE AND TRUST
A Purpose-driven organization composed of autonomous teams which deliver clearly defined products
As service-oriented architecture composed of loosely coupled elements that have bounded context
Radical Agility combines architecture and organization
PURPOSE
AUTONOMY
MASTERY
DELIVERY LEAD
PEOPLE LEAD
OKR
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
MICROSERVICES API FIRST SAAS REST CLOUD OPEN SOURCE
https://github.com/zalando/zalando-rules-of-play
TECHNICAL CHOISES RADICAL AGILITY TOGETHER & ALIGNED
KEY TAKEAWAY
What are the challenges with Radical Agility?
Trust can be misused (individual / team level)
Limited coordination may lead to overlaps and gaps
Freedom to select tech stack probably not great for short term productivity
People HAVE to be self-organized
Requires more communication, social skills and willingness to reach out
SUMMARY
Radical Agility in a nutshell - Purpose, Autonomy and Mastery. Small autonomous teams with E2E ownership and power to make decisions.
Zalando Helsinki – Continuously growing and hiring software professionals.
Thank you!
https://tech.zalando.com/
