Scale Technology and Yourself

25.10.2017Presented by Sergey Smolsky

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J O U R N E Y

S O F A R

General Experience

Over 15 years of experience in popular companies like Wargaming and Yahoo

Development

RolesMany Hats

Achievements

• Built complex Wargaming publishing platform for 150mln players

• Created a multi-national organization with hundreds of engineers

• Grew team by 5 times in one year

SCALE TECHNOLOGY

SCALING PRODUCT

SCALING TEAM

Change is good but not daily

Change is better than no changeFor business it is impossible to survive without changes

SCALING PRODUCT

Where is this going?

Do you understand me?

SCALING PRODUCT

SCALING TEAM More people?

Why the speed of developmentis not growing?

How to increase the speed of development?

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BUILDING TEAMS

Find technology champions

Find mentors for newcomers

Speed hiring, always know the capacity of your teams

Clear goals and responsibilitiesfor everybody

Why?

Lack of talents

DISTRIBUTEDDEVELOPMENT

Cost of talents

Some talents would like to work from home

Market localization

Attributes

Distance

DISTRIBUTEDDEVELOPMENT

Language

Time difference

Culture

Issues

Lack of visibility

DISTRIBUTEDDEVELOPMENT

Lack of trust

Lack of ownership

Lack of big picture view

DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENTSolutions

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WE ARE DIFFERENT

Do you want to work in a successful company?

GOLDEN RULES

MEASURE EVERYTHING

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LOOK OUTSIDERESPONSIBILITIES.

UP IS GOODSO IS DOWN

TEAM WORK

NETWORK

ENOUGH TALK

sergey@smolsky.co

http://smolsky.co