Startup’s Bread & Butter

Hello!I am MichalHead of Development at PiLab, Testing enthusiast, Gamer

You can catch me at: michal.stryjak@gmail.com

AGENDA

× What’s a startup?× Path From Idea to product× Overwhelming advantage× Challenges× How To find balance

1. What’s a startup?

IRON man Mark 1

A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty

Eric Ries “The Lean Startup”

How Do Startups work?

Build

Measure

Learn

IDEA

Product

Data

2. Path from idea to product

× Idea is easy, but we need to sell× No peaceful work× Requirements Come and go × Constant pressure

3. Overwhelming advantage

4. Challenges

… in search of overwhelming advantage!

… In need of Reliable solution!

Can both goals be pursued at the same time?

5. How To find balance × We tried many Tools (Epics, US, DOD, …)× We tried many dev approaches (Scrum, Kanban,

B-GA-G, Fast-Track on a different branch…)× It took us 2 years to learn the right path (For us)

Life of a featureFeature idea

Prototype

Validation

Stabilization

DROP

Stable Team’s goals- Build a solid foundation for

further development- Improve performance, reliability,

scalability- Help the support team- regular releases

Alpha teamS’ goals

- Deliver as fast as possible - Implement new features- Explore new ideas- Lead on demo/POC/conference prep- Help the delivery team - Stabilize validated features

governance

- Analyses the purpose of the feature (why we want it)

- Suggests the implementation quality level (Risk areas)

- Decides what is moved from alpha to a stable line

- Resolves disputes

Development approach summary- One branch but Clear line between stable and Prototype

(Feature Toggle)- New features are always developed as prototypes- Only selected (validated) features are moved to stable - People who developed a feature move it to stable (fix or

rewrite it)- Possibility to deploy stable or Alpha