Slides used by Rene van Hofwegen of the Low-code academy discussing how to scale Mendix teams during the Mendix meetup of January 28, 2021. Scaling Mendix teams is about knowing the skills required to deliver apps in YOUR organization and to put together a team which covers these skills together. Ensure enablement & support to make these teams successful with standard and packages.

1. How to scale Mendix Teams

2. Rene van Hofwegen
Mendix trainer, Mendix MVP
Founder Low-codeacademy
rene.vanhofwegen@lowcodeacademy.com
Derek Gardiner
Chief Technology Officer at
Comotion Business Solutions & Seed Analytics
derek.gardiner@comotion.co.za

4. • Deliver a first app
• Short development cycles
• Demonstrate collaboration
Business & IT
• Celebrate success

5. • Build upon start experience
• Structure your approach
• Root for right architecture
• Re-use, component-based
development
• Team forming
• Structure for success

6. • Improve governance
• Portfolio management
• Continuous integration
• Align Mode 1 & 2
• Build CoE
• Scaled success

7. Portfolio People
Process Platform

8. Portfolio People
Process Platform

9. OPS
UX designer
LEAD/COACH
Product Owner Architect
QA & Test
Advanced developer
Rapid developer
Business Owner
Meet the People
…
SME / User
Business Dev team Enablement & Support

10. LEAD/COACH
Advanced developer
Rapid developer
Dev team
Meet the People

11. Talk to me about
Mendix
JAVA
JavaScript
React
Native
CSS/HTML
REST/SOAP
DATAHUB!!!
Micro architecture
Kubernetes
Azure
…
I’m your
Technical engineer
Talk to me about
Project management
Scrum
Design thinking
Team leadership
User experience
Stakeholder management
Requirement engineering
Sprint planning
Backlog management
…
I’m your
Business engineer
The Two headed Mendix Dragon

12. Soft skills
The T/∏/ Person
Mendix
UX
Project Hard skills
People …. Integration
Front end Cloud …..
Mendix
Project
Project UX People Front end Integration Cloud
…. …..
Ш

13. The Mendix Advanced Developer
Mendix
UX
Project Integration
Front end Cloud
Mendix
Project UX Front end Integration Cloud
People …. ….

14. The Mendix Expert Developer
Mendix
UX
Project People …. Integration
Front end Cloud …..
Mendix
Project
Project UX
UX People Front end Integration Cloud
…. …..

15. The Mendix Two Headed Dragon
Mendix
UX
Project People …. Integration
Front end Cloud …..
Mendix
Project
Project UX People Front end Integration Cloud
…. …..

16. OPS
UX designer
Architect
QA & Test
Meet the People
…
Enablement & Support

17. UX designer
Mendix
UX
Project Front end
UX Front end

18. Mendix (Enterprise) Architect
Mendix Integration Cloud
Integration Cloud
Mendix

19. Mendix
Cloud operations
Project Cloud
Project Cloud

20. Mendix
QA - Test
Project …..
Project Testing

21. What do you need in your team toolbox ?
• What kind of applications
• Internal
• B2B
• B2C
• Which infrastructure?
• Mx cloud
• Private cloud
• Internal servers
• Landscape
• Single apps
• Integration w/ external systems
• Micro services
• Application size
• Start, Structure, Scale?

22. Architect
Start
Bus. owner
Product
Owner
SME/User
The “ Go Make it team”

23. UX OPS Architect QA Test
Enablement &
support
Structure
Product
Owner
SME/User
The Mendix dev. team

24. LEAD/COACH
UX OPS Architect QA Test
Enablement &
support
Scale Product
Owner(s)
SME(s)/
User(s)
LEAD/COACH

25. Where do you find your team?

26. Find Mendix developers
• Recruit internal & train
• Tech skilled
> Development skills
• Business skilled
> domain specific knowledge
• Hire Mendix developers
• Reality = Hard
• No solution in the end
• Hire & train ?
• Tech or business skilled
• Young professionals
> new blood, eager, innovation

27. How to train developers?

28. Learning is / Skill development is

29. PLAN

30. Practice

31. Coaching -
Review

32. Coaching -
Review

33. Explain/Demonstrate

34. Thought process over knowledge

35. How to facilitate training?

36. How to improve your team

37. Learning in a team
• Culture of innovation
• Culture of progress
• Culture of knowledge sharing.
• FedEx days
• Experiment
• Development framework
• Developer scorecard for needed skills
• Goal and vision of the company
• Someone responsible for skill development -> NOT HR !!!!

38. LOW-CODE ACADEMY
Schotdeuren 17 Arkel
rene.vanhofwegen@lowcodeacademy.com
http://lowcodeacademy.com