Moving on Up - Agile at Sky
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Creates a new agile hub of over 100 people in four months while mid‑delivery, using a lean‑startup approach with epics, stories and mirrored whiteboards to transition squads from London to Leeds; hires through an agile sandwich interview process, runs a Ruby bootcamp and enforces pairing so new hires cut production code within days; introduces chapters to reduce siloing and hands over via a “balance of power” cutover; succeeds and scales to ~400 people across seven tribes, while tooling and autonomy remain work in progress.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:55Sarah Glanville
- 2:29Tribes
- 3:03Background
- 3:22Why Leeds
- 4:37Challenges
- 7:19Team Transition
- 8:44The People
- 11:27The Whiteboard
- 13:02What has changed
- 13:50What we change
- 16:36Highs Lows
- 18:01Tribe Level
- 18:39Autonomy Motivation
- 19:41Wrap Up
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