Building an Awesome Engineering Culture

My DevCon 2012 talk on the ingredients of great software engineering culture

1. Building  an       Engineering  Culture     Uri  Na'v   Head  of  Engineering,  Klarna  Israel   awesome  
2. Uri  Na1v   Head  of  Engineering   Klarna  Israel     @una1v  
3. a  Story…  
4. 2005   Startup   IT  Enterprise   Applica1on   Java  /  J2EE   Oracle  
5. Feature  Request   New  Report   on  a  repor'ng  mechanism  we   already  hate  at  that  'me  
6. 10  million  rows   date  as  primary  key   Group  By  month  
7. 10  million  rows  +  Group  By   Data   Helper  Table  
9. a  Bug   reported  by  a  customer  
10. Y2K  +  10   bug  
11. Ouch!  
13. StarCraT  –  High  Quality  Game   •  Patrick  WyaC  (former  VP  R&D  @  Blizzard)   – “The  game  was  as  buggy  as  a  termite  nest”   – “every  programmer  was  coding  like  mad  to   meet  goals,  with  no  1me  for  reviews,  code-­‐ audits,  or  training”   – “the  programming  team  con'nually  worked   towards  shipping  in  only  two  months  for  the   next  fourteen  months!”  
14. Successful  companies   have   talented   engineers   that  code  like  crap  
15. Successful  companies   have   passionate  talented   engineers   that  code  like  crap  
16. Awesome  Engineering  Culture   Outweigh   Bad  Technical  Decisions  
17. Buy  now,  Pay  later   700  employees   Ruby-­‐on-­‐Rails/Erlang   6  European  Countries   25%  of  Sweden  online  commerce   €  150,000,000  in  revenue   Tel  Aviv  &  Stockholm  
18. Building  Klarna  Israeli   Engineering  Center  in   Tel  Aviv  
19. The  3  Ingredients   of  great   Engineering  Culture     The  secret  sauce  
21. 1   Short  Feedback  Loop   Con1nuous   Delivery   Fast  Test  Suites   Fail  Fast   Short  Sprints  
23. 2   Quality  State-­‐of-­‐Mind   TDD   BDD   Zero-­‐defect   policy   SoTware   CraTsmanship   Pair   Programming   Automa1c   tests   Code  Review  
24. 2½  
25. 2½   Con1nuous   Improvement   20%  precent   Meetups   Learn  from   Mistakes   Hackathons   Adopt  new   technologies   Teach   Retrospec1ves  
27. 3   Peopleware   Humble   Respect   Trust   Passionate   Engineers   Learn  from   Mistakes   Hiring   Team  players   Pair  Programming   Shared  Code   Code  Review  
28. Ingredients  of  great  Engineering  Culture   1.  Short  feedback  loop   2.  Quality  state-­‐of-­‐mind   3.  Con'nuous  Improvement   4.  Peopleware   Image  source:  hCp://www.flickr.com/photos/9439733@N02/2043786951/  
29. Building  great  culture  is   on  the  top  of  our   priority  list  
30. YOU  can  influence!  
31. THANK  YOU!