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Spark: Its kinda agile? A Spark Venture’s Story Pete Yates – Head PMO, Ops, IT & Platforms @peteyatesnz

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Spark: Its kinda agile?

A Spark Venture’s Story Pete Yates – Head PMO, Ops, IT & Platforms

@peteyatesnz

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Our Ventures

What is Spark Ventures?

With over 500,000 customers

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Why?

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Supporting & growing 6 startups

The Ventures could act like startups, IT could not

Learn fast & act with agility

Mind-set Shift

Keep $$ low People Scale &

StabilityGuiding

Principles

“Build now, scale for later”

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agile?

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Kanban vs Scrum

Sprints BAU vs non BAU

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Enables organisations to deal with continuous change

Mind-sets & Individuals Over Tools & Processes

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Project vs BAU

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How did we solve this problem?

• Forward planning non BAU work• Creating a future road-map for work – backlog• How can we share with the rest of teams what we are working?• Demonstrating the value of IT• Reduce shoulder tapping of IT resources?

Jira

“Adopt & Adapt”

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The way we work

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Microservices

Product Ecosyste

m

Continuous Delivery

Ecosystem

Technology Ecosystem

Infrastructure

Ecosystem

Open Source Contributions

Spark

Technolog

y Capabilitie

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Monitoring & Analytics CRM

Mobile & Wearables

Web App

Test Automation

BillingPayment

Identity

ISTM

Technology Platform

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Lightbox simultaneous streams

Bigpipe subscribers

100%

to 15-30 mins for env. builds

1day

The last 12 months…

Over 6m hours of content viewed

100%

to 5-10minsfor prod

deployments

45mins

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Mind-set shift

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Customer (CX/UX)

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People

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It’s all about your people……

- Where they set goals that they can aspire to, - the way they work together, - the values that they share,- ways in which they communicate with each other.

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