The science & art of scaling pilots into a global IT organization - a technologists view
summary
An incubator at Boehringer Ingelsheim runs 13 MVPs leading to 13 MVPs → 8 pilots → 7 scaled, builds concrete products (a speech‑based dementia diagnostic prototype and an animal‑health farm management pilot) and standardizes tech so handovers work: one shared dev stack, AWS/OpenShift runtime, JavaScript front ends, Java/Python/Scala back ends, Git/JIRA/Confluence, CI, SonarQube and OAuth. Handover practices include two identical stacks, half‑hour migration and long handovers (3–6 months); hiring scales too: 60 people hired from 20+ countries, 2,000 resumes.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:17Early stage innovation
- 5:48Disrupt and feel engine
- 11:37Whats in scope
- 13:50Whats out of scope
- 16:18Ideation
- 21:05Global IT
- 22:56Efficiency
- 24:15Product Teams
- 39:57What we did
- 44:50Why did we do our own development stack
- 47:55People
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