What I Learned About Going Fast at eBay and Google

Explore strategies for maintaining high-velocity feature development in large-scale Internet companies through this GOTO Aarhus 2014 conference talk. Gain insights from Randy Shoup, a former eBay and Google executive, as he shares lessons learned about accelerating development processes. Discover how organizational culture, user experience focus, quality assurance, and engineering practices contribute to sustained innovation. Learn about Google's approach to bug reporting, service teams, and open-sourcing, as well as eBay's experimentation techniques and development processes. Understand the importance of autonomy, accountability, and effective hiring in fostering a fast-paced development environment. Examine how these principles can be applied to organizations of all sizes to enhance feature velocity and maintain market leadership.

Introduction
How do I go fast
Organizational culture
User experience
Less is more
Quality and reliability
Confidence in testing
We dont have time
Engineering at Google
Bug reporting at Google
Submissions from people Ive never met
Service teams
Service levels
No sequel services
Autonomy and accountability
The chassis
Open sourcing
Team to Team
Sit with the Team
Process
Mistakes
Postmortems
Action Items
Inversion and Experimentation
Experimentation at eBay
Technical tradeoffs
People
Hiring Process
People arent interchangeable
eBays development process
Recap
Questions
Customer prioritization