This document provides an overview of MTLC Litle, including its size, history, industry, offerings, and culture. It discusses that MTLC Litle has about 220 employees total, with about 75 in engineering and 55 in software development. It was founded in 2001 and started with 12 employees. It also discusses the greatest challenge of continuing to scale the engineering group. The culture focuses on making the right way the easiest, using successive approximation to succeed, and having engineers understand the business through tours of duty.

1. June 2012
MTLC Litle
Overview

2. About Litle
About 220 people
Size About 75 in engineering
About 55 in software development
Founded in 2001
History Started with 12 employees
Went live in production summer of 2002
Credit cards
Industry Moving money
PCI audits
SSAE 16 audits
Hosted Service
Offering High availability
One code base
monthly releases into production

3. About Myself
Background
• One of the founders
• Have lead the development of the system from the
beginning
Helped to grow the team from 7 to 75 people.
Greatest challenge right now:
• How to continue to scale the engineering group

4. Culture
General It’s always about the business
Make the right way the easiest way
The most expensive thing we can do is the wrong thing perfectly
Approach Successive approximation is the best way to succeed
Water through the pipes first, then round it out
Don’t reinvent the wheel
Ownership The team owns the project
The team owns go live and TCO
Engineers take 4 tours of duty to better understand the business
Management People and interactions matter
Estimating
Definition of work

5. Estimating
• We use the appendicitis estimating methodology

6. Definition of Work

7. Definition of Work
Open In Dev In QA Done

8. Definition of Work
Open In Dev In QA Done

9. Definition of Work
Open In Dev In QA Done
Open In Process Done

10. Q&A