Speaker: Georgiy Mogelashvili

Senior Developer & Team Lead @bookingcom

In his 10+ years experience Georgiy had a chance to work for small local companies, country scale enterprises, non-profit organisations and international corporations.

Today Georgiy is working at Booking.com, world's leading online travel agency. His role there - Senior Developer and Team Lead, and he is responsible for company products development as well as people management.

Georgiy believes that main skill each manager should have is openness - ability to honestly and fairly talk to your direct reports and people around you in order to achieve results together.

In his spare time Georgiy likes constructing Lego Technic creations, planespotting in airports around the world, and spending time with his wife and little daughter.

Find Georgiy Mogelashvili at

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Talk : The Story of Teams Autonomy and Servant Leadership

Track : Empowered Teams
Location : Empire Complex, 7th fl.
Day of week : Thursday
Duration : 11:50am - 12:40pm

When faced a tremendous growth, company may have a problem - how to motivate all their employees and set them for success? One of the possible solutions we experimented with at Booking.com was idea of having autonomous teams - teams without direct managers (team leads) and where each and every member was equally responsible for team dynamics and perfromance. We believed that through providing autonomy, people will drive their own and company's performance.

It was partially true but also not. We had to stop the experiment, but we gained many useful learnings, which helped us improve the way teams are working. Not giving up with autonomy, Booking.com re-introduced team leads back as servant-leaders - people who drive and control team's autonomy and who can adjust to the situation.

In this talk you will be guided through the story of team leaders evolution at Booking.com. You will learn how did autonomous teams perform and what was great about it, will also learn some lessons we learned, and get some insights on how teams are organised today in the organisation with more than 1,500 people in IT.

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