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Saying No to the CEO Adam Telfer @adamwtelfer Product Lead, Wooga GmbH
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Dear Everyone, Effective Immediately: No matter what, Teams can work on whatever they want. Any Product they want. Using any technology they want. Management cannot stop you.
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Independent Teams
build better People build better Products
build better Businesses
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1 How & Why
2 Challenges
3 Benefits
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1 How & Why
2 Challenges
3 Benefits
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I’ll fix everything!
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BIG FEATURES!!!
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Woops...
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You take care of this...
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Teams make their own decisions.
On what to start On how to execute it On if/when to stop it
Teams have full autonomy
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Enter me, 2012
I can do whatever I want?
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Monthly Reviews
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1st Review
It’s okay...
Huzzah!
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2nd Review
Not good enough...
YOU CAN’T STOP ME!!!
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3rd Review!
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I made the call to stop.
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I asked: “Why didn’t you tell me to stop it in the beginning? We could have saved 3 months of effort!”
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Autonomy Culture >
Cost of 3 Months
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Why?
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Hit Driven Business
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How are Mobile Hits Made?
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Unpredictable
Unpredictable
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Small Teams
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6 6 10
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Great Games are built around Small, Creative, Autonomous
teams
Our process was built with this in mind.
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1 How & Why
2 Challenges
3 Benefits
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3 Challenges
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#1 Stuck on Repeat
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No Shared
Tech
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Repeated Mistakes
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Agility & Ownership
Saved Time
>
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No Shared Tech?
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(Optional)
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#2 Hiring
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20 Game Teams
300 People
200 Art, Dev, Design
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PROJECT 1
PROJECT 2
PROJECT 3
PROJECT 4
PROJECT 5
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+People!
+People!
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Where can I move to?
Where can I move to?
Where can I move to?
Where can I move to?
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MORE PEOPLE!!
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Resource Waves
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Where can I move to?
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Different Cultures, Different Genres,
Different Tech
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Generalists vs
Specialists
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Lab
Time
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Lab Time
(but not for too long)
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Resource Managers
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#3 Killing Games
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Killing your own idea
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Can you be Objective?
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Us Against Them
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Failure is Acceptable
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3 Challenges
Stuck on Repeat
Hiring
Killing Games
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1 How & Why
2 Challenges
3 Benefits
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3 Benefits
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#1 Adapting
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Adapting to Technology
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Adapting to New Genres
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12 Teams
8 Teams
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Less Politics #2
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Meetings aren’t for
Selling
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Executives Influence,
Not Command
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#3 Ownership
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Creative Control
Commitment, Confidence
Quality
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3 Benefits
3 Challenges
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Adapting Politics
Ownership
Reinventing Hiring Killing
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Dear Everyone, Effective Immediately: No matter what, Teams can work on whatever they want. Any Product they want. Using any technology they want. Management cannot stop you.
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It’s time to hit send.
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Thank You!
Adam Telfer Wooga GmbH
@adamwtelfer
mobilefreetoplay.com