Well, pretty cool, I’d say. And even cooler if you are a young professional, fresh out of university and just started in your first job. But our pay-off is “Je kan het met bol.
Organizing your own tech conference: how cool is that?!In the heart of the Agile method are autonomous teams that take responsibility and make their own decisions. Transitioning to self-organizing teams may seem like a risk, a move intuitively perilous to quality. But Rini van Solingen explains how bol.
Quality through autonomous teamsBoyd (left of Billy) was an intern at bol. com from September 2017 until January 2018. This blog is a conversation between him and his intern mentor, Maurice Zeijen (Software Architect @ bol.
IT internship at bol.comIn this post, I will explain how bol. com is going to interpret what the user says using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. Historically we have been doing that in multiple ways: by informing the customer on our website, in our app, in our email communication, using our chatbot Billie and in our call center.
Making Machines Understand YouAccording to figures from Ingenico, around 15% of site visitors in the Netherlands that begin the payment process do not complete their transaction. This can have many causes which will be examined later in this article. So why...
Your leaky online payment processData Science and Machine Learning are becoming more integrated into current businesses. Especially in e-commerce there is huge potential for predictive modeling. It is therefore no surprise that bol.
Getting organized: cleaning up bol.com with Data ScienceOne of the things that keeps us busy at bol. com is the continuous quest to figure out what else we could do to make our teams better. Even better I should write, since the vast majority of our teams are doing great already and I am very proud of them! However we also believe at bol.
A new idea: to improve teams we don’t need to improve teams…Over 1200 people work at bol. com and our IT department consists of more than 350 engineers, clustered into 60 cross-functional teams. These teams are all grouped in fleets and spaces.
Video: How does IT work?“My past year as a software engineer at bol. com has mostly been dedicated to breaking down one of the big monoliths within our software landscape into smaller services. To be more specific: I’ve been working in a team to extract the processes related to customer returns into a separate microservice.
Video: Insights- Building a Boomerang that doesn’t come back (to haunt you) at Spaces SummitThursday, November 16, 2017, bol. com hosted the Continuous Delivery Amsterdam meetup There were two talks planned: DocOps as part of DevOps, about how to integrate documentation in the developers workflow Developers in Control, about the past, the now, and the future of...
Developers in Control