Building an Awesome Engineering Culture
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Talk I gave in DevCon September 2012 about the ingredients of an awesome engineering culture. http://devcon-september.events.co.il/tracks
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- 2. Uri Nativ Head of Engineering Klarna Israel @unativ
- 3. a Story…
- 4. Java / J2EE Startup Oracle 2005 IT Enterprise Application
- 5. Feature Request New Report on a reporting mechanism we already hate at that time
- 6. 10 million rows date as primary key Group By month
- 7. 10 million rows + Group By Helper Table Data
- 8. 2010
- 9. a Bug reported by a customer
- 10. Y2K + 10 bug
- 11. Ouch!
- 13. StarCraft – High Quality Game • Patrick Wyatt (former VP R&D @ Blizzard) – “The game was as buggy as a termite nest” – “every programmer was coding like mad to meet goals, with no time for reviews, code- audits, or training” – “the programming team continually worked towards shipping in only two months for the next fourteen months!”
- 14. Successful companies have talented engineers that code like crap
- 15. Successful companies have passionate talented engineers that code like crap
- 16. Awesome Engineering Culture Outweigh Bad Technical Decisions
- 17. Buy now, Pay later 25% of Sweden online commerce Ruby-on-Rails/Erlang € 150,000,000 in revenue Tel Aviv & Stockholm 6 European Countries 700 employees
- 18. Building Klarna Israeli Engineering Center in Tel Aviv
- 19. The 3 Ingredients of great Engineering Culture The secret sauce
- 21. Short Sprints Continuous Delivery Short Feedback Loop Fail Fast Fast Test Suites
- 23. Software Craftsmanship TDD Automatic tests BDD Quality State-of-Mind Zero-defect Pair policy Programming Code Review
- 25. Teach Hackathons 20% precent Meetups Continuous Improvement Learn from Adopt new Mistakes technologies Retrospectives
- 27. Passionate Team players Engineers Humble Respect Trust Peopleware Hiring Code Review Learn from Shared Code Mistakes Pair Programming
- 28. Ingredients of great Engineering Culture 1. Short feedback loop 2. Quality state-of-mind 3. Continuous Improvement 4. Peopleware Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/9439733@N02/2043786951/
- 29. Building great culture is on the top of our priority list
- 31. THANK YOU!