Agile journey-the growth of Douban

As a planner for the agile trip to Beijing, during the discussion, the industry-renowned speaker was invited to give a keynote speech, I have never quite understood why the team members highly praised Douban Duan Nian for the most important first keynote speech, the uninformed information I got on Baidu and his Weibo does not show anything Bright about him. At that time, I told myself that the answer was only available at the conference venue, after the lecture, I felt trembling, because the growth of the story was what I was searching.

Because it was a conference with the subject of 'agile developing', Duan Nian first asked the audience the following questions: Is there a team that is agile? Can agility continue by establishing an accurate process and system? In Agile DevelopmentProgramIs the self-commitment made by Members a trap used by capitalists to compress work? How can agility improve efficiency?

A variety of questions, Duan Nian's answers are also very concise. Whether a work method can solve the team's problems lies in whether the team can show results. As a practitioner, douban uses agility without planning, so that the entire team can automatically enjoy some work methods and tools, it is better to attract talented and personalized projects than to suggest a clear process and system;

As for the agile transformation of organizational units, the greater the value to the core layer (management layer), the less significant the difference is. They are all aimed at creating an efficient working team, and specific results are produced at all times; however, for teams that actually work on the exhibition of these results, sudden changes may lead to the agility of these teams to cater to High-level instructions, however, in actual work, we still use the habitual work mode. Therefore, it can be said that agile transformation expands outward in enterprises, and the difference increases.Therefore, Duan Nian suggested that Agility should be developed rather than planned.

Douban has only one simpleCommunityAs users spontaneously organize in the community to develop functions such as reading books, movies, and offline activities, this is the growth feature of Douban. Based on this feature, it is also defined that the agility of Douban cannot be organized by the leadership to design a growth model. Douban itself only provides a good environment and soil for development.

Duan Nian himself believes that Douban still has many problems in Agile practices. In particular, he stressed that as the number of developers increases, communication with each other often fails. At the same time, Douban insisted on small teams, the number of remaining teams is less than 10. At the same time, Douban itself advocates fast iteration and rapid release, and it does not make users feel that Douban has undergone huge changes. However, Douban is constantly changing its UI every day, I tried to explore users' preferences. Therefore, if a curious person has a page that has been switched to Douban three years ago, he will find that the UI of Douban is huge today.

Product managers especially do not like agile development because they think agile development often represents democracy and need to negotiate with engineers to determine the feasibility, product managers think that they can come up with 7 decisions a day without consulting. If they discuss with engineers, they can make a decision.

Engineers have a good quality awareness, so they have also created a happy day. The specific way is to find out the day of the working day. engineers work together to tackle a specific problem and write their ownCodeTo see who can solve the problem best. With the increasing business-oriented development of Douban, the number of engineers is also increasing. At this time, how to assign engineers to work for a specific development project becomes a practical problem, because when an engineer completes this project, he or she may immediately join another project, and the engineer needs to modify the bugs or new functions of the previous project, this engineer has no time, so the engineers of Douban invented the 'siege Motors' organization. Their base camp was in 'city', when their commander PM (product manager) when we lead the siege engineers to tackle new projects, the problems that occurred during the previous project of these siege engineers will be solved by those who stayed in 'city.

In addition to engineers who solve problems and have a mentality of solving problems, the soil and air Culture provided by Douban can be used to ridicule the products completed by other groups, however, the R & D teams of these products did not dare to yell back: "If you don't think it is good, do it yourself." Douban engineers may take the time to make a better product, duan Nian said this was a joke, but he had such a soil of Douban and absolutely had such a persistent engineer.
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