Improving eBay's Development Velocity
summary
eBay runs a cross-organizational Velocity initiative that pilots platform tools and team embedding to cut delivery bottlenecks: a dashboard tracking the Four Key Metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR, change failure rate), traffic mirroring for black‑box verification, and automated canary deployments. Pilot domains (≈10% of devs in 2021, scaling to 50% in 2022) double output, increase deployment frequency ~5x, shrink lead time from ~10 to ~2 days and cut failure/restore metrics ~3x, plus move mobile to weekly mobile releases.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction to velocity
- 1:03Identifying the problem
- 2:29Focusing on software delivery
- 6:12Measuring performance
- 9:47Results of the initiative
- 12:17Implementation strategy
- 18:12Working and scaling
- 25:39Culture and executive support
- 29:15Scaling and future outlook
- 32:22Q&A session
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