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“People over processes” Tathagat Varma
Sr. Director Business Operations
Yahoo! India R&D
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Let’s understand the ‘craft’ first…
• Sheer joy of making things
• Pleasure of things that are useful to other people
• Fascination of fashioning complex puzzle-like objects of interlocking moving parts and watching them work in subtle cycles
• Joys of always learning, which sprints from the non-repeating nature of the task
• Delight of working in such a tractable medium
The Mythical Man Month – Fred Brooks, 1975
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Pace of innovation is accelerating…
1975-2000 • 2000: Baidu • 1997: Yandex • 1994: Yahoo!, Amazon, NetScape, • 1986: Pixar • 1984: Sybase • 1983: Intuit, Borland, • 1982: Sun, Symantec, Adobe, EA • 1980: Informix • 1979: EMC • 1977: Oracle • 1976: CA, Apple • 1975: Microsoft
2000-2010 • 2010: Pinterest, SnapDeal, • 2009: Square, Quora, Sina Weibo • 2008: Groupon, AirBnB, GoGo • 2007: Dropbox, Zynga, Flipkart, InMobi,
Hulu, Tumblr, • 2006: Twitter, SlideShare, Badoo Spotify • 2005: YouTube, Renren • 2004: Facebook • 2003: Myspace, Skype, Rovio,
Gameforge, • 2002: LinkedIn • 2001: StumbleUpon, Mail.ru
2011 - • Instagram
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Sadly…None of this came from…
Frameworks, Standards and Certifications
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Agile Manifesto brought people back into the equation…
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But…Did that solve the problem?
• “…In looking back, [Kent] Beck finds that while each segment of the Manifesto was a giant leap forward in 2001, the language no longer reflects the challenge of launching successful innovation in the marketplace of 2011.”
• Beck’s Beyond Agile Manifesto - • Team Vision and Discipline over Individuals and Interactions
• Validated Learning over Working Software
• Customer Discovery over Customer Collaboration
• Initiating Change over Responding to Change
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/05/04/innovation-applying-inspect-adapt-to-the-agile-manifesto/
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What is the most important part in these two machines?
The Brakes…They let you go faster!
And…The Man!!
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So, what are we learning?
• Innovation is the game • More of same is not enough!
• ‘Startups’ breed innovation
• No risk, no reward!
• Invest on smart people
• Let them break stuff !
• Don’t impose a process
• Let them self-organize!
• Don’t confuse means with ends • It’s not about the tool!
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It’s not about the tool!
A photographer went to a socialite party in New York. As he entered the front door, the host said ‘I love your pictures – they’re wonderful; you must
have a fantastic camera.’ He said nothing until dinner
was finished, then: ‘That was a wonderful dinner; you must
have a terrific stove.’ – Sam Haskins
http://www.haskins.com/ImageShop/Image_Shop_60s/60s_Books_A.Image_01.html