Japanese cucumbers, boomerangs and utopias

By Roy Jacobs on 23-06-2017
Category: Culture, Development, Events Tags: Conferences Engineering Fun Culture

bol.com has two speeds of operation: “very fast” and “extremely fast”. In this whirlwind it can sometimes be difficult for teams to share knowledge or just talk about things they find interesting. A handful of colleagues decided something needed to be done about this. What better way, they thought, than to just organize an entire conference by themselves?

From database killer to top performer!

By ntinnemeier on 12-06-2017
Category: Blog, Culture, Development Tags: Architecture Microservices database Grafana

How do you get the IT management board to serve you coffee on a golden platter? You have to do something good of course, exceptional in fact. In order to tell you how we became top performer instead of database killer by creative use of a cache, we will have to take you back to December 2015, when it all started.

Bol.com @ Agile Amsterdam 2017

By Menno Vis on 26-05-2017
Category: Blog, Culture, Events Tags: Event Agile Conferences Development

Are you going to Agile Amsterdam? Be sure to check out bol.com on the 21st of September! Menno Vis (IT Director) and Mary Gouseti (Software Engineer) will be presenting a hands-on case from 12:00 PM to 12:30 PM (track 1).

Our agile journey so far – Part 3: You build it, you run it, you love it

By Menno Vis on 15-05-2017
Category: Blog, Culture, Development Tags: Agile Scrum devops YBIYRIYLI

This is the third post about our growth story. In the last blog post we elaborated on some necessary steps to take in an organizational change. We have explained that the steps bol.com has taken are very much in line with John Kotter’s steps. In this post we will have a closer look at the process in the spaces.

Our agile journey so far – Part 3: You build it, you run it, you love it

Our agile journey so far – Part 2: involving everyone

By Menno Vis on 27-03-2017
Category: Culture, Development Tags: Agile Scrum

This is the second post about our growth story. In the first blog post we introduced our Man on the Moon program; how we plan to manage a fast growing company like ours. In this second part we’ll explain how we have involved all stakeholders and participants in our journey to the moon. Also, we’ll share what has inspired us and how this has helped us to set our own direction.

Our agile journey so far – Part 2: involving everyone

Let our bol.com partners shine

By Thatiana Mendes on 20-03-2017
Category: Culture, Development Tags: Event Partners bol.com hackathon game

Today we had our third edition of Let partners shine. Around 50 bol.comer’s – among them software engineers, test engineers, information analysts, UX designers and business analysts – got together for the whole day to participate in this competition. The idea was to fix and improve little interactions that cause frustration for the users in the partner platform.

Our agile journey so far – Part 1: bol.com to the moon!

By Menno Vis on 1-03-2017
Category: Culture Tags: Agile Scrum

From a small online book store to an e-commerce platform with 7 million customers. That’s the short version of the bol.com story so far. This is the first post from a series through which we would like to share our growth story. These posts are written by Roy Gielen, an agile enabler who interviewed several persons at bol.com on this topic.

Our agile journey so far – Part 1: bol.com to the moon!