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17 Years online 2.7 million subscribers 12 billion records 55 million family trees 175 million sharable photos, documents and written stories $488 million in revenue in 2012
CREATING FLOW: AN EXECUTIVE PERSPECTIVE Tim Sullivan, CEO 17 Years - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
CREATING FLOW: AN EXECUTIVE PERSPECTIVE Tim Sullivan, CEO 17 Years - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
CREATING FLOW: AN EXECUTIVE PERSPECTIVE Tim Sullivan, CEO 17 Years online 2.7 million subscribers 12 billion records 55 million family trees 175 million sharable photos, documents and written stories $488 million in revenue in 2012 2 3
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2006: Project “Cobalt”
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Why this way? Needed a great leap forward Legacy technology Culture Impatience Ignorance (at least CEO…)
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Problems with this approach? Risk Speed…(lack of) Little customer feedback A lot of change at once
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“Cobalt” was our tipping point…
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We needed to do things differently Faster time to market Smaller / faster change Better alignment with customer wants Parallel development Answer: adopt Agile
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Our Three Year Transformation
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March 2010 The Beginning: Adoption of Agile January 2011 January 2013 January 2012 Today First 9 Months:
- Educate
- Culture Shift
Two Years: Agile for the Enterprise
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March 2010 The Beginning: Adoption of Agile January 2011 January 2013 January 2012 Today First 9 Months:
- Educate
- Culture Shift
Two Years: Agile for the Enterprise
Our Three Year Transformation
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March 2010 The Beginning: Adoption of Agile January 2011 January 2013 January 2012 Today First 9 Months:
- Educate
- Culture Shift
Two Years: Agile for the Enterprise
Our Three Year Transformation
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ARCHITECTURE
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INFRASTRUCTURE
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DEVOPS
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CONTINUOUS DELIVERY
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New components and features Start of Continuous Delivery Frequent updates needed Quick delivery to users
How we do things now: 1940 Census
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Lessons learned: Increased Flow Change in mindset Accelerated change…with less disruption Customer alignment Reduced risk More innovation = more satisfaction
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Current Challenges
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Thank You
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