Ciklum Seminar Zurich - October 23, 2012 - Christian Stettler (NZZ)
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Transcript of Ciklum Seminar Zurich - October 23, 2012 - Christian Stettler (NZZ)
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• Two distributed Scrum teams
– Organized as feature teams
– Mixed setup with Swiss and Ukrainian developers
– 13 developers in total
– Located in Zürich and Kiev
• Dedicated QA Team
– Two automated testers
– Three manual testers
– Entirely located in Kiev
Who we are
• 2010: Very small team in Zürich.
• Most software development was done by external
service providers were we made incredible bad
experiences.
• Insourcing and nearshoring became strategic for
NZZ‘s need to grow in the digital market.
• June 2011: initial start point with first team in Kiev;
two developers and one testers.
• May 2012: massive growth to 22 people in Zürich
and Kiev
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How it all began
• Personal encounter is essential
– Everyone in Kiev travels to Zürich; at least twice a year.
– Team leaders from Zürich travels to Kiev regularly.
• Esteem is of major importance.
• A good video conferencing system is a must.
• The meaning of work-life balance is quite different between the two countries.
• It is a big benefit to have know-how „in-house“.
Lessons we have learned, part 1
• Handling such a development power results in a
bottleneck on project management side.
• Well defined and continously improved processes
are essential.
• Choosing accurate, but not too many, tools that
support distributed collaboration helps a lot.
• For rapid development high-level quality assurance
is utterly important.
Lessons we have learned, part 2
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• Hyperproductive Scrum-Teams
• State of the art development process
• State of the art quality assurance process
• Extremely high job satisfaction (9.8/10 Ciklum‘s report)
• Zero fluctuation of employees
• Happy business and workers
The results
JIRA: Created vs Resolved Issues Report
Time: before NZZ.ch relaunch
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Thank you for your attention.
Christian Stettler
Projektleiter
Neue Zürcher Zeitung AG, Falkenstrasse 11, CH-8021 Zürich
Tel: +41 44 258 12 75 | Fax: +41 44 258 13 28
[email protected] | www.nzz.ch