Left Brain Meets Right Brain – The Power of Code, Community and Culture

Left Brain Meets Right Brain The power of code, community & culture

Dr. Angel Diaz, VP IBM Cloud Technology

Left Brain Meets Right Brain – The power of code, community & culture Dr. Angel Diaz - @angelluisdiaz

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The Platform for the people

Built upon Cloud Foundry, IBM Bluemix empowers “The Platform for the People” with robust, enterprise-grade features


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8k

new devs

each week


Analytical Duality

Operates Creates

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Sides to a successful development story

Focus on

outcomes Envision

the

experience Align the

team

At IBM, we start with a design thinking approach

This is what we need to do across open communities


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Code Community Culture

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Focus areas to power innovation & foster development innovation

No application or community can be an island

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Value & insight are derived by making connections between raw data, real ability & the power to act


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Public Private Skills Business Acumen

Elements of innovation to help businesses develop competitive advantage

Understands

natural language

Generates &

evaluates

hypotheses

Adapts

& learns

At IBM, we’re bringing together these elements for

greater insight


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Come as you are: expanding choices for developers

Just announced: IBM is adding .NET runtimes & support for Microsoft tooling in Bluemix


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.NET

Adding several other third-party Bluemix Services to help developers create analytics-driven cloud applications

Connect insights: anytime, anywhere

Just announced: IBM MobileFirst Platform enables proximity-aware mobile applications


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Quickly allow others access to your data, function


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Just Anounced: IBM API Management is a toolkit to create, deploy & share APIs with simple control of access

Design

Secure

Socialize

Manage

API Toolbox


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Relevant to business

Reusable & Open

Modular & Extensible

Well-formed & Documented

Methods Interfaces Functions Objects

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Insightful & creative

Steps to build open code that will strengthen an open community

Code


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#FailureIsAnOption

Confidence

#NoDistractions

Space

Humor

#LaughingIsPlay

#SetLimits

Time

#UseItAll

Time

No Boundaries

#LetYourMindWander

Components of a creative oasis where you can be creative & learn to play

Community

Lessons of the community you can learn from the “original” squad


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Peer writing

Sounding board

Pool of unique skills

Problem solving

Community

Leverage existing ecosystems

Reach out to experts

Creative coop-etition

Taking the show on the road: Devops bootcamps


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Community

Steps to build a strong community


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Build architecturally

Foster open policies

Consume the technology

Extend the ecosytem

Build expertise Code Do the

dirty work Fix bugs

Community

Characteristics of a healthy culture that will inspire innovation

A good

culture is

sticky

Space to

innovate

No fear of

failure


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Culture

Recognize

the values

that lead to

success

Characteristics of a healthy culture that will inspire innovation


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Question with

purpose

Foster sharing

across all levels

Aware of, but not

beholden to history

Culture

Free to change

those things considered

sacred

Change results from client dialog

IBM is dedicated to Cloud Foundry’s success

Just announced: IBM opens a Cloud Foundry Dojo in Research Triangle Park

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A Hybrid Cloud that

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leads to a world

where…

…you have the ability to

automatically provide for

client needs, knowing what

they want before they do

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