Leap from Outsourcing to Startups (Aleksey Kolupayev Product Stream)
Apr 15, 2017
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Ukrainian → I moved to Germany
Developer → Lead → Scrum master → CTO → Product manager
Worked in outsourcing as consultant → now work with outsourcing as customer
Worked for big established companies → switched to startups
Built a really big and famous one!
Was young and easy going → now I have family, kids and responsibility
• Technology company
• AirBnB has no flats
• Uber has no cars
• FlixBus has no buses!
• One big brand
• One endpoint for customers
Flixbus
March 2012
Source: MeinFernbus.de
July 2013
Source: MeinFernbus.de
December 2014
Source: FlixBus.de, 15.08.2016
August 2016
• About 1.000 buses • 250 bus companies • 13.000 agencies • 100.000 tickets
daily • Europe’s largest
long-distance bus operator
Know why
Need many expertises
for one child
Define goals
Highly responsible
Pick profis
Know how
Have many customers
on one expertise
Achieve given goal
Highly paid
Get invitations
You can not manage what you can not measure
Nominal
A != B
Interval
A+B = C
Ordinal
A > B > C
Ratio
A = B/C
Conway’s law
Organizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
(M. Conway, 1967)
Brooks's law
...Complex programming projects cannot be perfectly partitioned into discrete tasks that can be worked on without communication between the workers and without establishing a set of complex interrelationships between tasks and the workers performing them.
(F. Brooks, 1975)
Adding people produces gaps in your organization which leads to limiting your product abilities
Cultural difference gaps
– Monochronic vs. Polychronic (high concentration or multitasking)
– Past vs. Present vs. Fututre oriented (keeping values or aiming for changes)
– Value of time (how precise are time planning and comminments?)
– Individualism vs. Collectivism – Power distance (boss is always right or only when
he is actually right?)
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