DSxD Labs

Multi-discipline program for our solution practice

Our Premise

• The technology team within our solution practice is client delivery focused
• We must evolve by creating a facility for discovery, especially as our solution practice grows within EPAM
• The solution?
  • We develop a group who collaborates outside of client projects to build thought leadership by exploring technology and new processes.

Benefits

• Solution starters
  • Reusable code bases
  • Modular code frameworks
  • Internal Process Tools
  • Starting points for new Technology Platforms
• Thought Leadership
  • Build Best practices
  • Drive internal Disciplines standards
  • Promote domain expertise internally and externally

Benefits (cont.)

• Growth
  • We must invest into our own talent, and allow ourselves to grow.
  • Attracts and retain the best people, we have to allow the freedom to be innovative.

How Will It Work?

Board Oversight

• Management Board will be established to oversee work in the Lab
  • Selects proposals and lab presentations
  • Creates requests for Labs
  • Reviews Lab output
  • Determines Eligibility for Lab participation

Staffing

• Dedicated Staff
  • The Lab participants are dedicated to the Lab while working in the Lab
    • Split attention is not a model that works
  • Allows team members to focus on the objective
  • More dynamic solutions = wider & deeper impact
• Staffing Model
  • Technology Director who is responsible for the lab
    • 25% allocated
  • Lab Participants
    • 2 Full time employees for the duration of the lab

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Lab Work

• Eligibilty:
  • Full time employees with client experience
    • time spent as a FT contract can count towards this requirement, subject to board approval
  • Residency is TBD; however we recommend a minimum of 2 weeks
• Deliverables are not limited to the Lab Proposal itself
  • attend meetups
  • contribute to EPAM branded blogs
  • update EPAM confluence
• Bottom Line: it’s a lot of work

Lab Outputs

• this includes lunch and learns, blogs, miniq, conferences, hackathons, competitions, white papers, Knowledge Base, etc.
• End of Experiment publications
• hand offs to lab, client, internal etc.

Case Study: Social Media App

• Need to describe how we would have done it differently/better with the lab

Case Study: ELF

• Need to describe how we would have done it differently/better with the lab

Case Study: EELM

Scalable, Modular, Single Page App Framework and Methodology

• Document Usage and Methodology
• Bootstrapped a build Process
• Re-use best practices on Telenet