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Team of teams:How to organize effective development of big product

Yuri Golikov, Sr. Director of Engineering

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➔ Functional teams◆ 10+ Front-end developers◆ 15+ Back-end developers◆ 10+ QA engineers

➔ 5+ year legacy code

➔ Releasing 1 big feature per quarter

What did we have in mid 2015

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➔ Speed-up featuredevelopment

➔ Provide scalability for future growth

➔ Provide transparency

Which goals did we set

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➔ Divided product into scopes

➔ Organized cross-functional teams

➔ Introduced Scrum

What did we do

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Recap of timing for changes

Jan 1, 2016 Feb 1, 2016 Apr 1, 2016

Decided to introduce cross-functional teams

Launch of all teams, Scrum everywhere

First big release

Mar 1, 2016

Launch of the first team, trying Scrum

Highly productive quarter

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Results: what did we release in Q2 2016

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Was it a battle?

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No, just some difficulties

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What differs from canons?

Multiple teams working on the same product

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Which structure did we get

Front-End Back-End QA UX Product

Team 1

Team 2

Team 3

Team 4

Team 5

...

Team N

SCRUM TEAMS TECHNOLOGY STACK

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What else differs from canons?

Big technical debt

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How do we progress

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➔ Yes and No

➔ No single Managers, there are Roles◆ Product Owner◆ Technical Leadership◆ People Manager

Finally, teams with no manager?

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95%

Some proof

of Wrikers think that Wrike is the best company they’ve ever worked for

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96%

Some proof

of Wrikers keep interested in

their responsibilities and the

product and believe that their

contribution brings value for

the product and the company

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97%

Some proof

of Wrikers like the

atmosphere created

in Wrike

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98%

Some proof

of Wrikers would

like to work at

Wrike for at least

another year