DevOps, Digital, and Cloud - Two's Company, Three's a Crowd?

DevOps, Digital, and Cloud

Two's Company, Three's a Crowd?

Jason BloombergPresident

[email protected]

@theebizwizard

Copyright © 2016, Intellyx, LLC

Copyright © 2016, Intellyx, LLC2

About Jason Bloomberg

• President of industry analyst firm Intellyx

• Agile digital transformation thought leader

• Write for Forbes, several blogs, biweekly newsletter the Cortex

• Buy my latest book, The Agile Architecture Revolution


The Digital Mandate

• The web drove ebusiness reinvention in the 1990s

• Mobile disrupted technology consumption worldwide

• Additional touchpoints exploded the digital challenge

• Now the IoT is layering on further complexity

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What is Digital?

Customer preferences & behaviordrive technology choices

Range of technology touchpoints is exploding

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What about Transformation?

Internal organizational change is necessary to maintain focus on the customer in today’s

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What is Digital Transformation?

• Customer pressures driving technological and organizational change in companies

• Enterprises rethinking:– How they serve

customers– The role IT plays– How they build & manage

teams– How they innovate

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Digital Transformation

What are you transforming?

Digital Transformation = Business Transformation

Customer Experience

TechnologyInternal

Organization

All of the Above


Today’s Agile Imperative

Organizations must capitalize on disruption to achieve greater innovativeness and resilience in the face of digital transformation priorities

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Three Dimensions of Digital Diversity

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• Front to back– End-to-end from the

customer to the systems of record

• Breadth of interaction– Diversity of customer

touchpoints and form factors

• Depth of community– Broad ecosystems of

vendors and services


DevOps: Model for Organizational Change

DevOps is an organizational and

cultural rethink of how organizations should

build and run software at the velocity the business requires

Not About the Tools


The DevOps Mentality

• Self-organized teams deploy when ready

• Deployments are increasingly granular

• “Fail fast” mentality

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Resilience becomes part of the culture


DevOps as Model for Scalable Self-Organization

• Agile applied self-organization at the team level

• DevOps breaks down silos through cross-silo self-organization

Beyond Two-Pizza Teams

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The DevOps Virus

• DevOps proves self-organization can scale across organizational silos

• Digital transformation requires end-to-end reorganization

Let DevOps infect your organization

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You Say You Want a Revolution…


Shifting the Center of Gravity

Center of gravity is the IT infrastructure

Center of gravity is the customer

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Traditional IT

The Digital World


Maturing Definition of Cloud

IaaS PaaS SaaS

Public HybridPrivate

XaaS

IoTFog

Containers

Abstracted Infrastructure Horizontal Scalability

Customer-Centric Pricing


Become a Software-Driven Organization

• Customer-driven, software-empowered• We must sufficiently abstract the

technology to support changing customer demands & other market pressures– Abstracted infrastructure– Horizontal scalability– Customer-centric pricing

The Cloud is the Key


Make Change a Core Competency

• Digital Transformation doesn’t have a “final state”

• Business agility is the goal– Better able to deal

with change overall• Requires:

– Customer focus– Agile organization– Abstracted infrastructure

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The Core Business Goal

AgileDigital

Transformation

DevOps, Digital, and Cloud - Two's Company, Three's a Crowd?

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