Agile and SaaS teams

We’re alive! After a nearly 2-year hiatus, the Go Agile Stockholm meetup is back. Our first 2017 event will showcase a range of topics including UX, design, development, organisational health, and continuous delivery, aimed at SaaS teams, but open to anyone.

The event on May 4th will be held in our offices at Mälarvarvsbacken 8 on Långholmen. Maybe you’ve never been here, so you’re thinking, “There are tech company offices on Långholmen?” And there are! You’ll find us in one of the old yellow boathouses (https://www.google.se/maps/place/M%C3%A4larvarvsbacken+8,+117+33+Stockholm/@59.3208006,18.0337442,432m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x465f77dae7087d69:0xf745a14eda74faf8!8m2!3d59.3208006!4d18.0359329) that faces onto Söder Mälarstrand.

Schedule:

17:30: Doors open, mingle and snacks

17:45 Welcome

18:00 Jane Ruffino (Head of comms, Centra & Young/Skilled)

18:30 Anton Martynenko (Technical lead, Bannerflow)

19:00 Break

19:15 Cecilia Byberg (UX designer, consultant)

19:45 Mingle and drinks

20:30 Finish

We’ll keep you updated if anything changes, and we can’t wait to see you on May 4th!

Speakers:

Jane Ruffino (Head of Communications, Centra & Young/Skilled)

Content is everywhere (and what to do about it)

Jane is a content designer and strategist with a background in documentary production, research, and journalism. As an experienced content design 'team of one', Jane will talk about some ways a company’s culture can create the potential for great communication. You already know that content matters, but what does content even mean? Which things are content, and which things are not? And how much can you really do with a small team? We’ll cover content debt, how you can build your team’s content maturity by building content awareness into your workflows, and mapping communication loops from your product to your customer and back again.

Anton Martynenko (Technical Lead, Bannerflow)

Multitenancy in SaaS

The SaaS model is extremely tight to operate from a cost perspective. For this reason, multi-tenant architectures have become the standard way to run a SaaS startup these days. But, apart from the cost of the underlying infrastructure, startups have other challenges, such as being made up of small teams with limited resources. As a software engineer who is experienced in building SaaS solutions, Anton will talk about the typical SaaS business life-cycle and how software architecture can evolve based on the different stages of a company’s growth.

Cecilia Byberg (User experience designer)

Starting small: creating value with minimum viable UX actions

Cecilia is a UX designer with a background in financial services and mobile UX. She has almost 20 years’ experience producing digital services across a range of contexts, as a front-end developer and usability evangelist at companies including SEB, mobile agency Mobiento, and Avanza. Today she works mainly with startups, where the short iterations between learning, testing, and design/development in Agile setups feel like a natural way to develop services. In her talk, she’ll outline ways that everyone on the team can start doing things that support the end user in small, scalable ways. UX isn’t a ‘one-designer show’, rather it’s a goal, vision and responsibility, for the whole product team. A successful outcome involves managing everyday challenges of the team and focusing on shared goals, working together on a journey to creating value and innovation through minimum viable UX actions.