Agile London @ Trainline

Trainline are a one-stop shop for train travel. Every day, they bring together routes, fares and journey times from train companies in 24 countries so their customers can easily buy train tickets and save time, hassle or money. Everyone at Trainline does exactly what they do best. And even though they work in different teams, they make sure to perform as one company. With offices in London, Paris and Edinburgh, the aim is to work together in the most productive and efficient way.

As a customer-centric company, they're constantly reviewing their technology stack and technical practices to enable better customer experiences. It means they're technology driven, making engineering central to everything that they do. And, like the products created, they're smarter about the way they setup to deliver great tech too. Operating in cross-functional teams that they call clusters, so there’s no chasm that divides technology and the business at trainline – they are one team with very little hierarchy. It makes them decisive, lean and innovative and ensures opinions are equal and ideas flow freely.

We are also lucky to have an expert guest speaker - Kelly Waters, who is the founder and CEO of 101 Ways, a product-focused technology consultancy. With over 30 years experience in the software industry, Kelly has a deep understanding of the tech space and what it takes to bring about successful product development and delivery. In 2010, Kelly was recognised for his work by the agile community when he won an award for being the ‘Most Valuable Agile Player in the UK’. In 2016, he also won an award for ‘most popular online contributor’ in the agile community. Kelly continues to help shape the ‘agile’ debate both in the UK and abroad through a combination of regular industry speaking engagements and social media as well as via his well-established blog. Meanwhile, 101 Ways is going from strength to strength, quickly becoming one of the most sought-after technology consultancies in London.

Again, this is the last meetup of the year and it would be great to see a really strong turnout.