A cynical person could say that Booking.com is actively hindering Perl5 development by hiring so many (ex-)pumpkings and other people knowledgeable in Perl
OTOH, by providing them with an income, they may actually have some time to help Perl development. Open source contributers need to eat as well.
As far as I'm aware, demerphq, BooK, Abigail and Rafaël (and likely many others whose names I just currently don't have in mind) work there.
There's Acme::CPANAuthors::Booking which lists about 25 people. But last what I heard is that they employ over 50 developers, so I guess not all of their employees have modules on CPAN.
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Wow, that's very interesting.
Are they physically working together? If so, in which city?
Doing a bit of googling, I found a description of Abigail's
When Scrum Isn't Agile Enough
talk at YAPC::Europe 2010:
In early 2009, Booking.com started using the agile programming technique,
Scrum, for doing development. Right from the beginning, Booking.com
needed to steer away from the formal Scrum way in order to cope with
its unique demands. Over a period of a year, Booking.com has evolved
the technique it uses, resulting in a methodology called "Beyond Scrum".
In this talk, we discuss the Scrum methodology, and how Booking.com
initially implemented it. We then discuss the shortcomings and problems
Booking.com encountered, and how Booking.com has solved them. We finish
we an overview of how Booking.com currently uses its "Beyond Scrum"
methodology.
Did anyone attend this talk?
If so, can you remember any details of the Booking.com "Beyond Scrum" methodology?
I googled but couldn't find a description of it.
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