GeeCON 2022: Wojtek Ptak - Refactoring organisations

In our profession, we tend to reinvent the wheel. We introduce fresh silver bullets that promise to solve our products’ problems: aligning strategy, teams, architectural, and data processing decisions. We’ve all been there: from hundreds of microservices, introducing AI anywhere possible to vast Data Lakes swallowing all of our events. But we end up very frequently in silos, focusing besides much on fine details without looking into a broader picture. That results in underperforming - working in silos, creating over-engineered solutions, or not delivering our business goals. However, respective well-proven and well-explored engineering methodologies and tools can aid us maximize our efforts - the autonomy of teams, architectures, and data processing they build, which boosts their productivity and quality of delivery. We’ll start with how to identify the appropriate business boundaries and align our teams together with them. We’ll see which ready-to-use tools we can utilize and how these affect and improve product engineering, data processing, and analytics teams - and, in the end - our overall productivity