The TANDBERG Way
summary
Tandberg grows from 1990 to a billion-dollar business with 50% market share and gets acquired by Cisco for 19 billion NOK (~$3.3B). Engineering builds an XC90 codec with 10,000 components, a 22-layer PCB, ten DaVinci chips, multiple FPGAs and DSPs, several million lines of C/C++ and about 40–50 software engineers; it ships after about 20 months to ship. Development uses continuous integration, timeboxed iterations, daily syncs, post‑it continuous planning, ≤10% “non‑productive” staff, early releases and slack — practices that produce dominant products and repeatable reuse.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 5:01How Much Is Invested into R & D How Many Engineers Do You Have
- 21:07Effective Product Development
- 21:24Principles for Effective Product Development
- 22:55Embrace Chaos
- 30:30The Observer Effect
- 30:51Observer Effect
- 39:38Focus on Continuous Planning
- 41:28Release Trains
- 42:44Seek Early Feedback
- 44:26The Sinclair Effect
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