Talk given at Agile India Conference 2012

1. SlideShare's Lean Startup Journey
lessons learnt
Agile India Conference 2012, Bangalore
#agileindia2012

2. Hello
Kapil Mohan
Technical Architect, SlideShare Inc.
Founding employee. Hacker.
New Delhi based.
wuff wuff
@kapilmohan
Beer, anyone?

3. Nov 2011
http://www.slideshare.net/slidesharepro/slideshare-infographic-the-quiet-giant-of-content-marketing

4. SlideShare is...
Youtube of Powerpoint 2006
Social media platform 2010
Content social network 2012
"Flickr started as a multi-player online game"

5. You'll be extinct if you can't adapt to changes
fast

6. THE BIG BANG

7. is going to KILL you

8. THE BIG BANG
is going to KILL you

9. Continuous delivery
Think tiny. Fail fast.

10. Minimum Viable Product style developement
Does not mean deploy broken features

11. Expect Technical Debt. Sometimes, time to market
is more important than code. Fail fast.

12. Invest heavily in tools which provide clear visbility
into the system

13. Automate everything.

14. Lean DNA
#gofigure

15. Five whys
Distributed Agile Teams

16. Lean is a paradigm shift.
Agile is not the only way.

17. ● Design to adapt fast.
● Big Bang changes don't work. Pivot.
● Do MVP
● Monitor ruthlessly. Swear by Metrics.
● Automate everything.
● Lean is a DNA thing.
● Five whys did not work.
● Transformation to Lean is hard.

18. Thank You. Questions?
@kapilmohan
kapilmohan.com
slideshare.net/kapil