Stefan Gruber – Bitmovin https://bitmovin.com Bitmovin provides adaptive streaming infrastructure for video publishers and integrators. Fastest cloud encoding and HTML5 Player. Play Video Anywhere. Mon, 09 Jan 2023 15:02:01 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://bitmovin.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/bitmovin_favicon.svg Stefan Gruber – Bitmovin https://bitmovin.com 32 32 Bitmovin Charity Hackathon https://bitmovin.com/blog/charity-hackathon-2019/ Wed, 15 May 2019 17:32:12 +0000 https://bitmovin.com/?p=40156 We are bringing colleagues from around the world together to host the first Hackathon in Bitmovin’s history that is dedicated to charity.  We have been very fortunate to be able to focus our skills on something we love, changing the world of video. Over the course of the next few days, we are excited to...

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We are bringing colleagues from around the world together to host the first Hackathon in Bitmovin’s history that is dedicated to charity.  We have been very fortunate to be able to focus our skills on something we love, changing the world of video. Over the course of the next few days, we are excited to give back by dedicating our skills to changing the world the best way we know how, by hacking. Their time and know-how will be focused on the development of new technologies that should increase our partners efficiency so that they can spend their time to help others rather than on less important tasks such as daily admin work.
The Hackathon will start on Thursday 16th of May at 3p.m. CET and will run until Monday 20th of May 3 pm CET.
Their time and know-how will be focused on the development of new technologies that should increase our partners efficiency so that they can spend their time to help others rather than on less important tasks such as daily admin work.
Without further ado, let’s talk about the projects and partners we are working with this Hackathon:
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https://www.krebshilfe-wien.at/home/
Krebshilfe Wien: The Austrian “Krebshilfe Wien” is assisting cancer patients with medical information, psychological counseling and employment law support. The organization provides education on prevention and early detection of cancer.

Projects:

  • We will help them by building a shared calendar including a room booking function.
  • Objective:
    • Reducing the time that it takes to organise meetings
    • Providing a better overview of available rooms and people
    • Increasing patient Privacy

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https://www.samariterbund.net
Samariterbund Klagenfurt / Carinthia: The Workers Samaritan Federation – is an aid and welfare organization, engaged in areas such as civil protection, rescue services and social welfare services.
Project:

  • We will help to create an app which helps them to communicate with teammates, schedule operations and to engage with their supporters (doghandlers)
  • Objective:
    • Reducing time and complexity that flows into their communication
    • Faster organization of team meetings

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www.make-a-wish.at/
Make a Wish Austria:  Make-A-Wish is one of the world’s leading children’s charities and is helping by granting the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions
Project:

  • Wishapp: Improving the Wishapp to enhance the experience for children submitting their wishes from the Phone.
  • Wishboard: A collaboration platform to discuss wishes of kids with other volunteers.
  • Objective:
    • Improving the user experience which should lead to more wishes
    • Simplify the communication between the involved parties

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www.caritas.at
Caritas Klagenfurt / Carinthia:
Charitas provides service to people in need, to advocate for justice in social structures, and to call the entire Church and other people of good will to do the same.
Project:

  • We will help to build a web-based collaborative documentation system
  • Objective:
    • Simplifying the documentation infrastructure to save them time with their daily tasks

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]]> Why Transparency in Engineering Matters https://bitmovin.com/blog/transparency-in-engineering/ Thu, 11 Apr 2019 17:24:00 +0000 https://bitmovin.com/?p=34284 We’ve all been there – small engineering team, everyone sits in the same room, communication is easy, efficient and everyone understands what’s going on. But what happens when teams scale? The team implements “agile” weekly cycles, daily standups and sync meetings with management to prioritize projects. However, it never truly stays that succinct. In reality,...

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We’ve all been there – small engineering team, everyone sits in the same room, communication is easy, efficient and everyone understands what’s going on. But what happens when teams scale? The team implements “agile” weekly cycles, daily standups and sync meetings with management to prioritize projects. However, it never truly stays that succinct. In reality, a lot of changes are thrown in, requirements are defined on-the-go and plans are thrown overboard in order to appease upper management or the most urgent customer.
In the end, no one really knows what’s actually going on.
Outside of introducing an engineering process (i.e. scrum or kanban), the best approach is to get rid of missing, or even wrong, information and assumptions across your company.
Who do you involve?
Who needs to be informed about what projects? The CTO doesn’t necessarily care that you replaced an ‘if then’ with a switch statement, but they will want to know if a feature loads faster or consumes less CPU. It’s important to understand the difference between who needs to be consulted vs who just needs to be informed.
Product Management
Open lines of communication between product management and engineering are essential to the success of your company. They should always be aware of the current status and the requirements associated with each task or project. Is the task clear? What progress has been made? Is there a blocker? When will the task be completed?
Product management should also be able to understand why some tasks have dependencies on the completion of other tasks or why other tasks should be completed in tandem rather than separating them into different sprints. They should have a holistic view of what is going on in engineering at all times.
The Customer
Timely feedback about raised issues or problems within the product, and information about product features are the most important points to communicate with customers to ensure they stay long term and are happy with your product. When a customer raises a direct issue or request they should be made aware of the timeline for when their requirements are planned and fixed.
Sales/Marketing
Sales and Marketing should always have a high-level view of what engineering is prioritizing. They should be proactively informed about new features and bugfixes in order to effectively communicate with prospects and customers. One of the primary challenges between sales/marketing and engineering is finding common terminology to ensure that engineers understand the value and nuances of how each request will be utilized, and that marketers or sales teams understand the level of technical specificity required to meet the needs of a project.
The better Sales and Marketing understand your product, the better they can sell and market it in a way that it reaches the customer.
How?
Give more information than seems necessary. Focus on being proactive, and freely sharing information and receiving feedback.
What will happen?
Especially at the beginning, what information you share and how you communicate it will not be perfect. There will be a learning curve; when you share something, people ask questions. But once it starts, the blackbox around engineering will disappear and teams outside of engineering will begin to have a greater understanding that necessary information is openly shared and feedback and collaboration is welcomed. Ultimately, your product will be improved by understanding the needs of different teams in your organization, and your sprints will be more organized because requests and definitions will be made in the beginning of the process, rather than once work is already underway.

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