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Saying No to the CEO
Adam Telfer
@adamwtelfer
Product Lead, Wooga GmbH
www.mobilefreetoplay.com
all@yourcompany.com
Dear  Everyone,
Effective  Immediately:
No  matter  what,
Teams  can  work  on  whatever  they  want.
Any  Product  they  want.
Using  any  technology  they  want.
Management  cannot  stop  you.
Independent Teams
build better People
build better Products
build better Businesses
1
How & Why
2
Challenges
3
Benefits
1
How & Why
2
Challenges
3
Benefits
I’ll fix
everything!
BIG
FEATURES!!!
Woops...
You take
care of
this...
Teams make their own decisions.
On what to start
On how to execute it
On if/when to stop it
Teams have full autonomy
Enter me, 2012
I can do whatever I want?
Monthly Reviews
1st Review
It’s okay...
Huzzah!
2nd Review
Not good
enough...
YOU CAN’T
STOP ME!!!
3rd Review!
I made the call to stop.
I asked:
“Why didn’t you tell me to stop it in the
beginning?
We could have saved 3 months of effort!”
Autonomy Culture
>
Cost of 3 Months
Why?
Hit Driven Business
How are Mobile Hits Made?
Unpredictable
Unpredictable
Small Teams
66 10
Great Games are built around
Small, Creative, Autonomous
teams
Our process was built
with this in mind.
1
How & Why
2
Challenges
3
Benefits
3Challenges
#1Stuck on
Repeat
No
Shared
Tech
Repeated
Mistakes
Agility &
Ownership
Saved Time
>
No
Shared
Tech?
(Optional)
#2
Hiring
20 Game Teams
300 People
200 Art, Dev, Design
PROJECT 1
PROJECT 2
PROJECT 3
PROJECT 4
PROJECT 5
+People!
+People!
Where can
I move to?
Where can
I move to?
Where can
I move to?
Where can
I move to?
MORE
PEOPLE!!
Resource
Waves
Where can
I move to?
Different Cultures,
Different Genres,
Different Tech
Generalists
vs
Specialists
Lab
Time
Lab
Time
(but not for too long)
Resource
Managers
#3Killing
Games
Killing your
own idea
Can you be
Objective?
Us
Against
Them
Failure is
Acceptable
3Challenges
Stuck on Repeat
Hiring
Killing Games
1
How & Why
2
Challenges
3
Benefits
3Benefits
#1Adapting
Adapting to
Technology
Adapting to
New Genres
12 Teams
8 Teams
Less Politics
#2
Meetings
aren’t for
Selling
Executives
Influence,
Not Command
#3Ownership
Creative Control
Commitment,
Confidence
Quality
3Challenges
3Benefits
Reinventing
Hiring
Killing
Adapting
Politics
Ownership
all@yourcompany.com
Dear  Everyone,
Effective  Immediately:
No  matter  what,
Teams  can  work  on  whatever  they  want.
Any  Product  they  want.
Using  any  technology  they  want.
Management  cannot  stop  you.
It’s time to hit send.
Thank You!
Adam Telfer
Wooga GmbH
@adamwtelfer
mobilefreetoplay.com

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