BBC North East Tech Hub Meet Up #15

Background

The BBC has been broadcasting from Newcastle for over 100 years. Now it's also the base of our North East Technology Hub and home to teams from the BBC's Product Group, responsible for developing world-beating services like iPlayer, Sounds, Sport and Bitesize.

The event is informal, and the doors will open at 17:30, starting 18:00 running through to 20:00.

Let's fix the web's text size (Josh Tumath - BBC)
About 35% of phone users change their OS text size. Have you ever noticed, though, that when you increase the text size on your phone, nothing changes on websites?

I’ll show you the work we’ve done at the CSS Working Group to finally fix that, and how you can make sure your website respects the user’s text size preference.

How We Got Agile Teams to Try Something New: Without Starting a Fight (Ade-Lee Adebiyi - Unity)
This talk is a candid account of how we quietly introduced elements of Shape Up into an established Agile environment, what worked, what failed, and what we misunderstood along the way.

Supporting experimentation at the BBC with Engineering (Jack Sheriff - BBC)
Challenges at the BBC with experimentation and how were engineering solutions to solve them