www.agileonthebeach.com Arber Pllana – Growing a Company using XP Title: Growing with XP. Unruly has been applying eXtreme Programming (XP) from the start and is now the leading global platform for social video marketing. We now have 12 offices and employ over 150 people globally. XP is still at the core of how we develop our software products and as our company and customer base has grown, we’ve had to figure out how to shape user stories and form strategic roadmaps with stakeholders spread across Asia, Europe, and USA. Our Product Development team continues to develop new product offerings with rich user-experience while remaining as Lean as possible. Come to this session to hear an honest account of how XP practices hold up after years of tinkering and where we’ve had to make adjustments to adapt to scale. business Arber Pllana EMEA Product Manager, Unruly Media Arber is the EMEA Product Manager at Unruly, global leaders in social video and dedicated to agile principles since their startup days in 2006. Arber has a cross-functional background that spans Operations, Product Support and Product Management. He has seen Unruly through a period of rapid growth from a team of just 30 to 150 and now liaises with a globally distributed network of stakeholders. Arber works at the heart of Unruly’s XP product development team facilitating the incubation of user stories and researching new ideas that feed into our Activate product set.

1. GROWING A COMPANY WITH XP
@arberp
@unrulymedia

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Your title sit over it ABOUT YOU

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Your title sit over it AGILE
XP is a lightweight
methodology for small to
medium sized teams
developing software in
the face of vague or
rapidly changing
requirements.”
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4. Founded in 2006,
Unruly is the leading
global platform for
social video marketing

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Your title sit over it LIFE AT UNRULY

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Your title sit over it XP PRACTICE MAP

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Your title sit over it NOT SCRUM

8. HOW WE WORK

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Your title sit over it PAIR PROGRAMMING
• Code together
• Discuss
• Share keyboard
• Problem solving
• Learn new things
• Teach new ways
• Share knowledge

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INFORMATIVE WORKSPACE

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Your title sit over it SHARED VIEW

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Your title sit over it RELEASE WHEN READY

13. NO DEV TEAM NO PRODUCT TEAM
Infra
UX
Coach
Product
Solns
Product Owner
Solns
Solns
Product
Devs
Devs
Devs

14. Prod
Mgr
Sw
Eng
UX
Infra
Coach
3x whole teams
MEET PRODEV

15. We have none of these…
• Project Managers or project plans
• Business Analysts or requirements docs
• Software architects
• Quality Assurance or test plans
• Scrum Masters or Foremen..

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Your title sit over it CHUTNEY
MARMALADE
TABASCO
CHUTNEY MARMALADE
TABASCO

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Your title sit over it EMBEDDED PRODUCT MANAGERS

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Your title sit over it EMBEDDED COACH

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Your title sit over it EMBEDDED UX

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Your title sit over it DEVELOPERS DRIVE
STORY DISCOVERY

24. FAIL FAST FORGET FAST

26. USER STORIES
STORY OWNERS -VS- STAKEHOLDERS

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Your title sit over it INTERNAL USERS
& STAKEHOLDERS
SF NY LON PAR STK OSL HAM

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Your title sit over it STORY TIME

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Your title sit over it SUPER STORY TIME

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Your title sit over it STORY PRIORITISATION

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Your title sit over it CONTINUOUS TIMELINE

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Your title sit over it RETROSPECTIVES

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Your title sit over it VISIBLE SUPPORT

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Your title sit over it VISUALISING TYPES OF WORK

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Your title sit over it VISUALISING TYPES OF WORK

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Your title sit over it VISUALISING TYPES OF WORK

38. DOT COUNTING

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Your title sit over it GOLD CARDS
• 20% time for research
• Play with interesting technology
• Pitch ideas to business and visa versa
• Weekly catch ups over beer and snacks

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Your title sit over it LEARNING
• Tech Academy – 12 weeks new starters
• Lighting Talks (every other Thu)
• Lunchtime Coding Dojo (Wed)
• Conference allowance (3days + £)
• Xprolo

41. MISTEAKS

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Your title sit over it CONSISTENCY BETWEEN TEAMS

43. THE STORY BLACK
HOLE

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DEV INFRASTRUCTURE

45. EXPERIMENTS

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Your title sit over it BREAKING THE FELLOWSHIP

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Your title sit over it QUARTLEY TEAM ROTATION

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Your title sit over it CROSS-TEAM PAIRING
ON INFRASTRUCUTRE

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Your title sit over it TECH ACADEMY GRADUATION

50. LEARNING: DEV EXCHANGE

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Your title sit over it HAVE FUN

52. WE’RE HIRING!
Thank you!