Perforce on Tour - Keynote: The Technology Garden Revisited
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Dale Vile
Research Director & CEO
Freeform Dynamics
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REVISITED!
2006 - 2015
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Community research model
Close partnership with The Register
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So what’s
gardening
got to do
with IT?
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Sound familiar?
Complex ecosystem
Made up of many ‘living’ things
All competing for resources
Lots of external influences
Continuously changing
Needs management
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Influences
Your Technology
Garden
Infrastructure, Applications,
Data, Services, Devices, Users
Market and
competitive
dynamics
Consumer
technology
trends
Changing customer
behaviour and
expectations
Changing stakeholder
and user behaviour and
expectations
Evolving enterprise
technology, techniques
and delivery models
Changing regulation
Business objectives
and performance
The as yet unknown
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Leave any
garden for
long
enough….
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The 6 principles
Get the basics right
Create a common language
Cultivate peer relationships
Work to common goals
Manage IT as a portfolio
Work with the right suppliers
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THE
BASICS
Functional
essentials
Delivery of
projects
Delivery of
service quality
Get the
basics
right
Topical discussions:
Pace of change
Virtualisation
Automation
Smarter delivery
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Moving on from silo-based automation
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The Goal?
Containers?
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Create a common language
The
business
The end
customer
The IT
team
Topical discussions:
Consumer influence
High expectations
Buzzword confusion
The power of ‘show’
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Cultivate peer relationships
Topical discussions:
Source of innovation
Risk and responsibility
BYO / shadow IT
The ‘people’ factor
Always running to catch up
Included from the outset
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Evolving
collaboration
needs
Software
development
project
Marketing launch
or campaign
Product
development
program
Topical discussion:
Software now integral
to so many activities
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Work to common goals
User
preferences
and desires
Hard-core
business
needs
IT delivery
and ops
needs
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Topical discussions:
Balancing interests
BU / BU alignment
Silos within IT
Motivation & metrics
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Motivation & metrics
Considerations:
Cause and effect
Impact lag
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Manage IT as a business portfolio
Cost
Value
Risk
Topical discussions:
Time to value
Longevity of value
Experimentation
Lifecycle management
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Cradle to grave
Creation
Retirement
Common issues:
Drift
Clutter
Sprawl
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So what’s the unit of management?
Monolithic black box
application
Component based
application
API-centric service
or ‘product’
Mobile app
Ownership, funding
Security, performance
Challenges:
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The monitoring, control and security challenge
Challenges:
Granularity
Distribution
Complexity
Cost
Risk
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Not just software
Source
code
Creative
assets
Creative
copy
Project
control
Specs &
designs
Software
development
project
Marketing launch
or campaign
Product
development
program
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The weakest link
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But I just
needed to
quickly…..
Tactics:
Policies
Guidelines
Training
Monitoring
Alerting
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Work with the right suppliers
Key considerations:
Perspective
Vision and values
Problem definition
Cultural fit
Criticality to successLevelofspend
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The 6 principles - revisited
The basics
Common language
Peer relationships
Common goals
Portfolio approach
The right suppliers
Project delivery, Agile, DevOps
Customer view, power of show
Proactive, tech-driven innovation
Silo busting and collaboration
Inclusive management and control
Sync’d with your values and needs
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Thank you!
Dale Vile
Freeform Dynamics Ltd
dale@freeformdynamics.com
www.freeformdynamics.com