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Innovation Traps: How to Design for Uncertainty Cristina Turbatu A Case Study of: #OReillySACon

Agenda ● Corporate Innovation ● Innovation Traps ● Designing for Uncertainty ● Playtech’s Games Marketplace ● Q&A #OReillySACon

Corporate Innovation #OReillySACon

Stages of our Corporate Innovation Handover Scale Idea MVP Proof of Concept #OReillySACon

Complement the company technology ecosystem Design for Uncertainty #OReillySACon Enterprise Architecture

Innovation Traps ● Focusing on the solution without fully understanding the problem; ● Overengineering; ● “Black Ops” Projects; ● Buggy Proof Of Concept; ● Moving fast. Maybe too fast. #OReillySACon

Design for Uncertainty ● Complement the company technology ecosystem ● It takes a strong team to succeed; ● Ask questions. Many many questions. ● Choose flexible technology stack and architecture ● Write Mocks ● Recognise when to scale ● Embrace and seek change #OReillySACon

Case Study: #OReillySACon

What is Playtech Games Marketplace (MP)? Game Operators Developers #OReillySACon

Where MP is today? 11+ 40+ Regulated markets Licensees connected covered 200+ eGR Supplier Innovation Award 2019 Brands #OReillySACon

How we started late 2016

How did we brainstorm for ideas? #OReillySACon Corporate Innovation

High level view of solution #OReillySACon

Proof of concept 2017 #OReillySACon

Focusing on the solution without fully understanding the problem Innovation Trap #OReillySACon Defining Baseline Requirements

Ask questions. Many many questions. Design for Uncertainty #OReillySACon Defining Baseline Requirements

How to get buy in from your dependencies? Your Innovation Product #OReillySACon Corporate Innovation

Make use of Open Protocols Design for Uncertainty #OReillySACon Defining Baseline Requirements

#OReillySACon Corporate Innovation

Use flexible technology stack and architecture Design for Uncertainty #OReillySACon Architectural Decisions

Overengineering Innovation Trap #OReillySACon Architectural Decisions

Clear separation of functionality in the codebase Design for Uncertainty #OReillySACon Architectural Decisions

Initial Architecture S3 FileAPI BE . . . Authorization FE Authentication . . . LB . . GP . . . DL . #OReillySACon

Build to scale from the start Design for Uncertainty #OReillySACon Architectural Decisions

Integration Points S3 FileAPI BE . . . Authorization FE Authentication . . . LB . . GP . . . DL . #OReillySACon

Mocks S3 FileAPI BE Authorization MOCK 1 FE Authentication MOCK 2 LB . . GP . DL MOCK n #OReillySACon

your mock Write Mocks Design for Uncertainty system you depend on #OReillySACon Integrations

“Black Ops” Projects Innovation Trap #OReillySACon Architectural Decisions

Buggy Proof Of Concept Innovation Trap #OReillySACon Development

Going LIVE 2018 #OReillySACon

Pivoting and iterating is critical Design for Uncertainty #OReillySACon Architectural Decisions

Growing the scope 2018 #OReillySACon

Add Business Intelligence #OReillySACon Development

Extending to other markets S3 S3 Marketplace Marketplace Territory Specific International Instance Instance <REPlICA> <PRIMARY> MongoDB MongoDB #OReillySACon Development

Growing the team 2018 #OReillySACon

Short version: we failed #OReillySACon

Little documentation as the system changed often Tradeoff of a flexible system #OReillySACon

Marketplace as a Service 2019 #OReillySACon

Scaling 2019 #OReillySACon

Game Discovery Loop Our first Out Of Memory #OReillySACon

Moving fast. Maybe too fast. Innovation Trap #OReillySACon Development

Recognise when to scale Design for Uncertainty #OReillySACon Scaling

“As soon as you start to scale, everything is going to change. Everything.” Ryan Smith, CEO of Qualtrics #OReillySACon Scaling

Current Microservice Architecture S3 FileAPI BE . . BI . Authorization FE Authentication NOTIF Audit . . . LB Metrics . . GP . . . Marketplace API DL . #OReillySACon

New challenges 2020 #OReillySACon

Architectural Evolution #OReillySACon Architectural Decisions

Changing some of the Tech Stack S3 FileAPI BE . . BI . Authorization FE Authentication NOTIF Audit . . . LB Metrics . . GP . . . Marketplace API DL . #OReillySACon

API Gateway S3 FileAPI BE . . BI . Authorization FE Authentication NOTIF Audit . . . LB Metrics . . GP . . . API Gateway DL . #OReillySACon

Event Based Messages S3 FileAPI BE . . BI . Authorization FE Authentication NOTIF Audit . . . LB Metrics . . GP . . . Marketplace API DL . #OReillySACon

Changing some of the Tech Stack S3 FileAPI BE . . BI . Authorization FE Authentication NOTIF Audit . . . LB Metrics . . GP . . . Marketplace API DL . #OReillySACon

“Success is achieved in two ways: [Insane] Luck or having failed so many times that success is the only possible next outcome” Peter Mares, Group CTO BetKing #OReillySACon

Embrace and seek change. Design for Uncertainty #OReillySACon Integrations

Q&A #OReillySACon

Innovation Traps: How to Design for Uncertainty CRISTINA TURBATU Architect @Playtech Games Innovation Labs Managing Director @Girls in Tech Gibraltar Linkedin: cristinaturbatu Email: cristina.turbatu@playtech.com #OReillySACon

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