Working BackwardsNovember 01, 2006 • 579 words In the fine grained services approach that we use at Amazon, services do not only represent a software structure but also the organizational structure. The services have a strong ownership model, which combined with the small team size is intended to make it very easy to innovate. In some sense you can see these services as small startups within the w

Planning and defining the work of an SDK team is a special challenge in software development. Such teams don’t always have “visible” deliverables in the same way a web or app team do. The team’s work is developer-facing – by developers for developers - and much of the planning is on a deeply technical level. The smart people in the team often have strong opinions about how things should be done, a