Christian Jennewein, BlaBlaCar
Growing the Tech team at ridesharing startup Blablacar This is the story of Christian and Nicolas, two Tech Managers at BlaBlaTech, who shaped the engineering team of the highly successful ridesharing startup. The team has grown from one single French five-person team to a dozen distributed and fully agile teams with 30+ people in only two years. Their main responsibility? Building and scaling the development team by constantly improving engineering processes, integrating and training new talents, and anticipating tomorrow’s organization. Their challenges? Delivering the...
Giuseppe Conigliaro
Giuseppe’s talk: “The transition path in the most important Italian IT Company: a people centric company focus on a customer centric vision.” Biography Giuseppe Conigliaro is Director of Software Engineering for AlmavivA, the leading Italian ICT company. He has a long and significant experience in planning and optimization processes, application of statistical models and tools for simulation systems and decision support systems, design and development of IT systems. He has worked as an IT consultant for private companies and public sector agencies in...
Kristian Lindwall, Spotify
Spotify has been growing quickly as a company, and they are continuously experimenting with ways of making the company work as effectively as possible. Kristian explained how management and leadership work in a large agile organization like Spotify. What can leadership look like in a large agile organization? How can a leader support autonomy and alignment? How different forms of leadership – both formal and informal, product, organizational and technical – overlap and interact to create successful teams. Biography Kristian is a Team Lead and Agile Coach at...
Laurent Bossavit
Sometimes it feels like a fact of life, like death and taxes, that software developers are ever cursed to write code full of bugs, then take them out one by one, with the patient assistance of testers (also known as “quality assurance”). At times we could believe that programming is special, that the Lean ideal of “right first time” cannot apply there, and developers and testers are doomed to the current uneasy (and sometimes adversarial) relationship. Here is a real story, not a fairy tale, to shine a hopeful light for those walking the Lean path...