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PIP: helping products improve their innovation power

The Product Innovation Power model (PIP) is created for the product teams and provides insights, best practices and tools to improve their innovation power. It unlocks the potential of our people & technology and accelerates the shift to the empowered product teams model. It will support us to become Europe’s #1 in product-led innovation. At bol.com we want to accelerate the shift from feature teams to an empowered product teams model. To do so, we need a shared understanding of innovation, the power to innovate and ways to improve our…

PIP: helping products improve their innovation power

A new idea: to improve teams we don’t need to improve teams…

Menno Vis, on 16-01-2018
Category: Blog, Culture, Development Tags: teams continuous improvement idea

One 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 at them!

A new idea: to improve teams we don’t need to improve teams…

Developers in Control

Patrick van Dissel, on 1-12-2017
Category: Blog, Culture, Infrastructure, Development, Testing Tags: Testing Development Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery continuous improvement Jenkins Gitlab Spinnaker Build Automation

Bol.com has a build automation tools team since 2012, going from installation manuals, to hundreds of manually maintained Jenkins jobs, to 5000+ generated Jenkins jobs, to fully autonomous teams. What did we do, what are we doing, where are we going, and how are we getting there.

In this demo rich talk, We’ll show you the ins- and outs, our challenges, and our approaches to keeping our growing development community happy and productive.