Boosting your Engineering Culture & Community through Gamification
summary
Adidas builds a cloud-native platform team (Kubernetes, CI/CD, monitoring, Kafka) and an inner-source portal, then drives culture with gamified programs: a nine-month DevOps competition with 220 participants and 25 cross-functional teams, sticker badges for skills and mentoring, hackathons and a public quality dashboard. Results show deployments move from six weeks to three times a day, cycle times drop to minutes, major incidents fall from 26 per quarter to zero, and cost optimisations save up to $200,000 per quarter.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction to Adidas tech journey
- 1:46Strategy for tech-driven transformation
- 5:19Technology stack and platforms
- 8:31Building engineering talent community
- 11:45Fostering collaboration and learning
- 18:21Gamification for culture boost
- 27:09Conclusion and call to action
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