Living Agile in Skype
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Skype has seen dramatic growth in last decade - hundreds of millions of active users, billions of calling minutes and Skype clients on all major platforms. All that was made possible by a smart combination of great technology and development process. In this talk I will briefly summarize Skype's agile journey in last couple of years and share some lessons learned from running a team developing Skype app for Windows 8.
Living Agile in Skype
- 2. Topics 1. Introduction 2. Brief History of Skype 3. Skype Organic 4. Skypes Agile Transformation 5. Skype Agile 6. Lessons Learned
- 3. Introduction Speaker jindrich.parus@skype.net @jparus What is Skype? communication provider for digital world calling, IM, SMS, video messaging, file sharing, screen sharing, voice mail, Skype Prague Engineering center with ~200 engineers Focused on Skype & Lync Web Experiences and cloud services Join our team as developer, tester or PM! http://www.skypeworklife.com/locations/prague/
- 4. Brief History of Skype Does agile development methodologies add $5.8B valuation to your business?
- 5. Skype Organic (2003 2009) Situation Business growing hundreds of percent per year Searching for revenue sources left and right Organic lose concept of backlog - roadmap lose development iterations (feature creep) growing technical debt scaling issues (org, user base, platforms) lack of transparent prioritization