perforce on tour - keynote: the technology garden revisited

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1The Technology Garden Revisited, Perforce on Tour, London, September 2015

Dale VileResearch Director & CEO

Freeform Dynamicswww.freeformdynamics.com

REVISITED!2006 - 2015



UK based industry analyst firm

Community research model

Close partnership with The Register



So what’s gardening got to do with IT?



Sound familiar? Complex ecosystem Made up of many ‘living’ things All competing for resources Lots of external influences Continuously changing Needs management



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



Leave any garden for

long enough….



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



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



The Goal?

Containers?



Create a common language

The business

The end custome

r

The IT team

Topical discussions: Consumer influence High expectations Buzzword confusion The power of ‘show’

2



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

3



Evolving collaboration needs

Software development

project

Marketing launch or campaign

Product development

program

Topical discussion: Software now integral

to so many activities



Work to common goals

User preferences and desires

Hard-core business

needs

IT delivery and ops needs

REALPOLITIK

Topical discussions: Balancing interests BU / BU alignment Silos within IT Motivation & metrics

4



Motivation & metrics

Considerations: Cause and effect Impact lag



Manage IT as a business portfolio

Cost

Value

Risk

Topical discussions: Time to value Longevity of value Experimentation Lifecycle management

5



Cradle to grave

Creation

Retirement

Common issues: Drift Clutter Sprawl



So what’s the unit of management?

Monolithic black boxapplication

Component basedapplication

API-centric service or ‘product’

Mobile app

Ownership, funding Security, performance

Challenges:



The monitoring, control and security challenge

Challenges: Granularity Distribution Complexity Cost Risk



Not just software

Source code

Creative assets

Creative copy

Project control

Specs & designs

Software development

project

Marketing launch or campaign

Product development

program



The weakest link



But I just needed to quickly…..

Tactics: Policies Guidelines Training Monitoring Alerting



Work with the right suppliers

Key considerations: Perspective Vision and values Problem definition Cultural fit

Criticality to successLe

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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



Thank you!Dale VileFreeform Dynamics [email protected]