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Curiosity is the common denominator for our Business Analysts – Podcast

What is the key competence of our business analysts (BA) We talked about domain knowledge, tech affinity and building bridges between stakeholders and software engineers. Sometimes the business analyst is almost seen as a project manager. Aligning with product owners is key in this role. Every business analysts within bol.com fills in this role differently but about one thing they are very clear; for our business analysts curiosity is key. Time to dive into this BA role. We see this role as a key to success in our multidisciplinary product…

Curiosity is the common denominator for our Business Analysts – Podcast

Team Topologies a DSL for organizational design – Podcast

Peter Paul van de Beek, Peter Brouwers, on 26-01-2021
Category: Podcast Tags: Design Product teams Sociotechnical Architecture Team Topologies organisation

Introduction A lot of people involved in the design and structuring of organizations could learn a lot from the book Team Topologies. Our guest describes it in the episode a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for organizational design and evolution. The header of the website and the subtitle of the suggest that it is the way for organizing business and technology teams for fast flow. In the episode, we discuss the 4 kind of teams and the 3 ways of interactions between these teams that are at the core of Team…

Team Topologies a DSL for organizational design – Podcast

Innovation Rhythm – How to drink less coffee and achieve more

Peter Brouwers, Peter Paul van de Beek, on 17-06-2020
Category: Podcast Tags: Innovation scale Culture way of working Product teams Agile@scale WoW Product management Transformation

Ever since we recorded the podcast about Agile @ Scale, we wanted some of the people involved again in our show. We care about the topic. Think there is a lot to tell and learn. And it is of interest to a lot of our listeners. That is why at least we think it is awesome that this episode is about Innovation Rhythm – How to drink less coffee and achieve more. In the first Agile@Scale episode we talked about the ‘Why’ of Agile@Scale, the flight levels of Klaus Leopold.…

Innovation Rhythm – How to drink less coffee and achieve more

Agile at Scale – Reality is complex, don’t expect simple solutions

Peter Brouwers, Peter Paul van de Beek, on 24-07-2019
Category: Podcast Tags: Web scale Scalability Agile Scrum Podcast Product teams Agile@scale Flight level Business Agility

Agile at Scale. Ever since we started our journey into Agile and scrum, we have been wondering whether we were on the right path for business and IT agility. Way back when we were with 7 scrum teams scaling wasn’t the most important issue. With our growth came challenges for scaling our agile way of working. We have been on a few plateaus where we were searching for the next step, as have been other companies on the same venture. Today we talk about some of the things we learned…

Agile at Scale – Reality is complex, don’t expect simple solutions

Scary close to fully autonomous teams at Onefootball

Peter Brouwers, Peter Paul van de Beek, on 3-07-2019
Category: Podcast Tags: Agile Spaces Summit Podcast way of working Product teams

This is a special episode of the bol.com Techlab Podcast. It’s recorded on at our own Tech Conference the bol.com spaces summit. Directly after Jim gave his presentation about ‘scary close to fully autonomous teams at Onefootball’ we interviewed him. We had a great presentation at Spaces Summit with the Title: “scary close to fully autonomous teams”. Within bol.com we strive for autonomous teams because we believe that we will go faster, are more agile and we have more fun. But it is also great to hear from people outside…