A return of experience of Dashlane implementation of the Software Development Life Cycle, centered on features.
To support the company's growth (+100% headcount in 1 year) and support the remote work, we have scaled our processes and created guidelines and tools to help teams be more efficient and deliver higher quality features. Each time a team develops a feature, it usually requires similar steps: defining the goal, scoping, get input from sales and marketing, specing, desining, technical and design reviews, estimation, planning, release dates communication, developing, testing, documentation, feature flipping, monitoring, retrospective, user's feedback review and so on.
The mindset: increasing autonomy by clarifying guidelines, and improving quality and efficiency by sharing knowledge and tools from one team to another. Creating a playbook, so all teams have the same processes, but can adapt to their needs.
We will discuss the challenges Dashlane faced while growing its team, what we tried and what are the guidelines we created for the different steps of the Development Cycle, and how it positively impacted our development predictability, quality, and speed.