Wooga is one the leading publishers of social games for web and mobile. Throughout the last three years the numbers of employees have doubled each year. But the company culture, the very essence of what Wooga is all about, remained untouched: It's still all about game teams, that each act as a small and agile startup with Wooga acting as a container (or incubator) for them.

1. Jesper Richter-Reichhelm (@jrirei) | Wooga
Wie skaliert man eine Firma?
Game-Teams bei Wooga

4. Do you play
games every day?

5. Yes

6. 2009: 20 employees

7. 2009: 20 employees

8. 2013: 250+ employees

9. 2013: 250+ employees

20. 70% in
Game Teams
30% in
Service Teams

21. Game Teams

26. Teams are small

27. Prototyping
2 members
Teams are small

28. Prototyping
2 members
Production
6 - 10 members
Teams are small

29. Prototyping
2 members
Production
6 - 10 members
Live
8 - 15 members
Teams are small

30. agilemanifesto.org

31. Teams are independent

33. Freedom

34. Constraints
Weekly rhythm
Fail fast
Be transparent

35. Standard Framework

36. Standard Framework

37. Scrum, Kanban or
something else?

38. Scrum, Kanban or
something else?
Art Style?

39. Scrum, Kanban or
something else?
Framework?
Art Style?

40. Scrum, Kanban or
something else?
Programming
Language?
Framework?
Art Style?

41. Scrum, Kanban or
something else?
Programming
Language?
Framework?
Data Center?
Art Style?

42. Scrum, Kanban or
something else?
Programming
Language?
Framework?
Data Center?
Tools?
Art Style?

43. Scrum, Kanban or
something else?
Programming
Language?
Framework?
Data Center?
Tools? ExternalServices?
Art Style?

44. Scrum, Kanban or
something else?
Programming
Language?
Framework?
Data Center?
Tools? ExternalServices?
Innovation
Art Style?

46. “You build it, you run it.
- Werner Vogels

47. Impact

48. Small
teams
Agile
principles
Independence

49. humanepursuits.com/2012/04/05/anarchy-on-your-lapto

50. Collaboration

51. Exchanging Knowledge
flickr.com/photos/swamibu/2868288357

52. Exchanging Knowledge
flickr.com/photos/wili/233621595

53. flickr.com/photos/photomonkey/12746989
Weekly status

54. Monday Morning

56. flickr.com/photos/mictlan74/3374564653
5 minutes
of fame

58. flickr.com/photos/rheinitz/8499706723
Brown bag lunch

59. Being transparent
flickr.com/photos/marcomagrini/698692268

69. Meeting people
flickr.com/photos/gviciano/4060850226

70. Job rotation
flickr.com/photos/cantstandstill/7341964940

73. flickr.com/photos/kitchen/26313635
Lunch

74. flickr.com/photos/m_power/115186679
Backend lunch

75. flickr.com/photos/omcoc/8350510425
Mystery lunch

76. flickr.com/photos/redbettyblack/271610082
Lunch roulette

77. flickr.com/photos/philipyk/160559925
One kitchen

80. flickr.com/photos/clearpathchiropractic/7864063782
Parties

81. Share
knowledge
Be open and
transparent
Build a
community

82. People

83. Hiring flickr.com/photos/vgm8383/2803305840

84. Finding unicornsflickr.com/photos/vgm8383/2803305840

85. Lifelong
learning
flickr.com/photos/carlosporto/775089650

86. Social Fit

90. Tech Crunch

94. Trust

96. “Build projects around
motivated individuals.
Give them the
environment and
support they need,
and trust them to get
the job done.”
- Agile Manifesto

97. 3 managers

98. 90+ developers3 managers

99. In doubt,
don’t hire
Trust
people

104. Independent Teams
Transparency
Trust

109. Independent Teams
Transparency
Trust

110. It works

111. Thank you

112. Jesper Richter-Reichhelm
@jrirei
woo.ga/backend
wooga.com/jobs