Building No-Code tools alongside your engineering team
- 1. Building No-Code Tools Alongside your Engineering Team Marius Ciocirlan @madebymarius marius@sharegrid.com @madebymarius
- 2. Peer-to-peer camera gear rental marketplace @madebymarius marius@sharegrid.com Marius Ciocirlan Co-Founder / CEO / Designer / Marketer / No-Code developer
- 3. 19 Teammates 5 Engineers Huge Dreams @madebymarius marius@sharegrid.com
- 4. = Huge dreams Huge JIRA Backlog “Great idea! Make a ticket and we’ll get to it…” “ok…” @madebymarius marius@sharegrid.com
- 5. No-Code Tools Discovered Build anything we want No code at all Quick iteration and updates @madebymarius marius@sharegrid.com
- 6. But… the devs had some questions who will store our data? Is it secure? what happens when 100k people use it? what happens when their site goes down? What about when they go out of business? who will deal with the bugs? @madebymarius marius@sharegrid.com
- 7. Wow.. great questions everyone… @madebymarius marius@sharegrid.com
- 8. Internal CRM Tool Rental bidding feed Job Opportunity feed @madebymarius marius@sharegrid.com 8 Months later…
- 9. Lessons Learned Building alongside an existing organization @madebymarius marius@sharegrid.com
- 10. Lessons Learned Building alongside an existing organization Limit the scope Share the bugs Earn trust @madebymarius marius@sharegrid.com
- 11. Lessons Learned Building alongside an existing organization Limit the scope Share the bugs Earn trust @madebymarius marius@sharegrid.com
- 12. Getting started Limit the scope Safe Complicated Risky Internal tools Blue Sky IdeasCore app
- 13. Internal tools Safe Complicated Risky Blue Sky IdeasCore app • Prone for automation • Forgiving users = Failure is ok • Ex: Reference checks • Bureaucracy • Low margin for error • Ex: Mason Frontend • Fast & Low cost • Can fail fast & iterate • Ex: Job feed Getting started Limit the scope
- 14. Lessons Learned Building alongside an existing organization Limit the scope Share the bugs Earn trust @madebymarius marius@sharegrid.com
- 15. Lessons Learned Building alongside an existing organization Limit the scope Share the bugs Earn trust
- 16. Maintaining your no-code apps Share the bugs The bidding site is showing duplicates! Emails stopped going out!! Customer information is not displaying any longer…help! The information is loading super slow…. “Everything is great…”
- 17. Maintaining your no-code apps Share the bugs No-code bugs = No-code solutions Everyone can crush bugs Ex: Slow Dashboard
- 18. Lessons Learned Building alongside an existing organization Limit the scope Share the bugs Earn trust @madebymarius marius@sharegrid.com
- 19. Lessons Learned Building alongside an existing organization Limit the scope Share the bugs Earn trust @madebymarius marius@sharegrid.com
- 20. Make the non-believers, believers. Earn trust Make Penicillin not Vitamins Maintain, Involve & Iterate Showcase & Evangelize • Solve big problems • Ensure people use it everyday • No-code iterating is easy • Involve others ideas • Show don’t tell • Empower new ideas @madebymarius marius@sharegrid.com
- 21. Start Building Alongside any existing organization Limit the scope Share the bugs Earn trust @madebymarius marius@sharegrid.com
- 22. Marius Ciocirlan Reach out with questions, suggestions or ideas marius@sharegrid.com @madebymarius