By Menno Vis on 16-12-2017
Category: Culture, Development Tags: Agile Scrum Culture Autonomy Video
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. Staying organized at this scale is definitely a challenge. To make this happen, we optimize for autonomy, mastery, purpose and ownership
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By Menno Vis on 1-11-2017
Category: Blog, Culture, Development Tags: Agile Scrum devops Culture leadership
This is the fifth and last post about our growth story. You’ve read about the history of bol.com and the process they made to reach their goal: landing on the moon. Now we’ve come to the final chapter.
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By Mary Gouseti on 12-10-2017
Category: Development, Events Tags: Software Agile Scrum Development University Amsterdam
For the last 4 years, Menno represents bol.com as a guest lecturer in one of the courses of the Software Engineering Master’s program at University of Amsterdam, this year it’s about Requirements engineering.
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By Menno Vis on 23-08-2017
Category: Blog, Culture, Development Tags: Agile Scrum devops leadership
This is the fourth post about our growth story. In the previous blog post we explained how bol.com realized an organizational change with YBIYRIYLI (You build it, you run it, you love it). Now it’s time to take a closer look at the more personal part. How can a company make sure employees stay happy and motivated? What does it take to be a leader in a company with autonomous teams? And how did bol.com take on this challenge?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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