Skype has seen dramatic growth in last decade - hundreds of millions of active users, billions of calling minutes and Skype clients on all major platforms. All that was made possible by a smart combination of great technology and development process. In this talk I will briefly summarize Skype's agile journey in last couple of years and share some lessons learned from running a team developing Skype app for Windows 8.

2. Topics
1. Introduction
2. Brief History of Skype
3. Skype Organic
4. Skype’s Agile Transformation
5. Skype Agile
6. Lessons Learned

3. Introduction
• Speaker
• jindrich.parus@skype.net
• @jparus
• What is Skype?
• communication provider for digital world – calling, IM, SMS, video
messaging, file sharing, screen sharing, voice mail, …
• Skype Prague
• Engineering center with ~200 engineers
• Focused on Skype & Lync Web Experiences and cloud services
• Join our team as developer, tester or PM!
http://www.skypeworklife.com/locations/prague/

4. Brief History of Skype
Does agile development methodologies add $5.8B valuation to your business?

5. Skype Organic (2003 – 2009)
• Situation
• Business growing hundreds of percent per year
• Searching for revenue sources left and right
• Organic
• lose concept of backlog - roadmap
• lose development iterations (feature creep)
• growing technical debt
• scaling issues (org, user base, platforms)
• lack of transparent prioritization