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A culture to grow great products – engineering approaches at Nokia

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Great Engineers + Right Culture

+ Technical Enablers +Product Vision

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A theory…

Great Products!

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Culture, some principles…

Trust

Respect

Collaborate

Fail early, blame slowly

Learn from mistakes – and everything else

Responsibility in the right place

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Agile & Lean…

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Continuous Delivery…

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Collaboration…

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Craftsmanship…

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Communities…

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Creative Environment

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A theory…

Great Products!

Architecture…

Problem: The Monolith

Solution: SOA

Environment…

X E*

*E = no. of Environments

Problem

X E!

Deployment Pipeline

Solution: Automate

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Trust…

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Problem: Low Confidence

Solution: Test & Monitor

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Source: http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/03/07/writing-unit-tests-for-wordpress-plugins/

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Ways of working…

Agile

Continuous Delivery

Collaboration

Craftsmanship

Communities

Creative Environment

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Technical Enablers…

Modularity / SOA

Scale

Test & Monitor

Client/Server/Storage

Experimentation

Responsibility in the right place

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A theory…

Great Products!and…a great

Place to be!

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