One of the metrics used in our industry is the one for users per engineer. Facebook is regularly communicating this ratio, and has also shared this ratio in comparison with other Giants in the industry. Facebook takes pride in having a pretty good ratio in this respect, and their VP of Technology, Jeff Rothschild, discusses this ratio in this Video (skip to the 3:25 mark) and he compares this to other companies:
| 1.100.000 | |
| 190.000 | |
| Amazon | 94.000 |
| Microsoft | 75.000 |
Since I was interested how this ratio is holding up for eBuddy, I calculated this over a few points in time.
When comparing this to Facebook, it seems we are not doing that bad, we even beat them!
So how come we can work so efficiently at eBuddy? We think this is because have been working with Scrum for the past 3 years. When we started adopting Scrum we quickly realized this was not just affecting the development team, but required a mind shift in the entire organisation.
Having an efficient development team is partly about having the right facilities. We have an environment where builds are created all the time, executing automated tests and informing the teams about the build status. Each team can continuously integrate their code on the development servers, and off course all the supporting tools are in place, e.g. issue tracking, wik’s etc.
But to be efficient is not only the process. When we work on a feature for 2 months but it is not going live any time soon, all the efficiency in the world can’t compensate for that. So it’s also about making choices. The teams need to be able to focus, since you can’t do everything at once. In close collaboration with the development team, the product owners make sure we are working on the right things and allowing the teams to focus. And off course the teams are working closely with the operations team to make sure we can roll out features smoothly and keep up the level of service to our users.
But what it really comes down to is the people, we have an amazing group of people, who really care about our users and try to improve our products every day!
Congrats team!
Niels
P.S. We have great confidence in our User to Engineer ratio, so we are hiring! We are looking for a Backend Java Developer, Mobile Java Developer and a Front-end Developer
COol about this! But I thought that Ebuddy was the product owner. Now i read Ebuddy does not own the products
How is this explainable?
@ypsacharon33 eBuddy is definitively the owner of the Products. Perhaps a bit confusing but a “Product Owner” is a term we use in Scrum for the person who is defining how the features should work, More can be found here: http://www.scrumalliance.org/articles/39-glossary-of-scrum-terms#1122
I think you are right. But you should cover more on this topic.
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This is a good post. I think face book popularity is increasing at a rapid pace and I heard that face book was noted as the most visited site on the Christmas day instead of Google. Google is a search engine giant but the online community has simply surpassed him. Though Google has you tube for watching movies online but face book is also giving a tough competition. I am expecting a better response from Google in the coming year.
Please please solbe the ebuddy logout issues, this is harrasment and we are feeling helpless.
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Its really great ebuddy was is a good catch.
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Congrats, keep up the good work team!
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