Facebook used to be a website translated to mobile by a tiny team, but over the last 2 years its reorganized to make every department in the company mobile-first as revealed in two new org charts it shared today at a small press conference “Whiteboard Session” at its Menlo Park HQ.
Below you can see the old structure of the company, followed by the new one.
Here you can see that a core team handles each of Facebook's major products, such as Messages, Events, or Photos across all interfaces. Not only does this allow a team to live and breathe their product, but since they maintain all the code for their product, they can reuse it on different interfaces.
Facebook's head of mobile release engineering MIke Legnitto explains that with the old model, Facebook mobile team was “constantly playing catch up” but now he says Facebook's iOS and Android apps are “mobile first and mobile best.”
Of course that sounds good in theory, though many of Facebook's features still come to the web first. Most obviously, Facebook launched Graph Search in January 2013 and it's still not even being publicly tested on mobile. That means it could be many more months before it rolls out to everyone - which is Facebook's goal.
Still, Facebook is driving a lot harder and faster on mobile than it used to be. It rolled out a big navigation redesign alongside iOS 7, and recently did a major overhaul of its Messenger app. The latter would have been a much messier process in the old organization, because Messenger is designed to bridge communication across the web and mobile.
Legnitto concluded “We changed how we develop, changed how we ship, changed how we write code, but kept our culture.”
The Whiteboard Session is in progress so we'll have more info soon.
Source: TechCrunch http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/YGzDGmp0W-M/
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