rediscover software development edward hieatt web summit 2014

A NEW PLATFORM FOR A NEW ERA

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Rediscover Software Development Edward Hieatt Vice President, Pivotal

4 November 2014

© Copyright 2014 Pivotal. All rights reserved.

Enterprise Computing is Changing

MAINFRAME CLIENT-SERVER & WEB CLOUD

Automation of Financial Accounts

Automation of most paper processes (ERP, CRM, Email)

New experiences and business models

Automation of Financial Accounts

Automation of most paper processes (ERP, CRM, Email)

New experiences and business models

“Free” CPU Cycles “Free” CPU Storage

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Software is Changing Industries

$6B valuation Financial Services

$12B valuation Travel & Hospitality

$19B valuation Transportation

$3.2B Acquisition by Google Home Automation

$28B valuation Entertainment

$32B valuation Automotive


Every Company Needs to Build Great Software

Francisco Gonzalez, CEO

“ Banks need to take on Amazon and Google or die. The shift to digital requires a complete overhaul of banks technology…it is a matter of survival.”


“The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed.”

- William Gibson

Many Enterprises I talk to feel behind, fear the disrupters, and don’t know what to do next. My message to you is that you can catch up, but you must be bold.


Cloud Foundry • Big Data Suite • Labs


Back to Basics: What Does the Business Really Need?

� More Speed, yes… –  Software built much faster than in the past –  The ability to change direction based on customer feedback, market

conditions

� …But predictability is the key –  No surprises near a release –  Prefers “fast and predictable” over “sometimes very fast, often

mysteriously slow”


The Importance of Predictable Speed If a team’s speed is predictable, you know:

�  When the current vision of the product could be built

�  How realistic a deadline is, so you can adapt

�  That a request to change or release doesn’t disrupt the team

�  That bugs generally don’t get in the way of progress

�  That a need to scale doesn’t disrupt feature progress

The challenge: it’s difficult!


Solution

We need to solve for high, predictable productivity in the face of product flux, large teams, legacy technology and legacy team structures. We need:

1. Technology transformation

2. Cultural transformation


1. Technology Transformation

� Move to Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) –  Increases developer productivity –  Unifies IT environment –  Centralizes and enforces convention (security, scaling, etc) –  Generally allows developers to get back to writing code

� This is how the disrupters grew up

� Now you can have it in the enterprise


Jonathan Rosenberg CTO & VP, Collaboration

“ PaaS is the operating system for the cloud. As the set of APIs and services for PaaS's grow, the choice of PaaS becomes more crucial as the costs of porting go up. This is one of the benefits of open source PaaS offerings like Cloud Foundry.”


2. Cultural Transformation

� Prescribe a simple framework based on disciplined Agile practices –  Clear separation of Product and Engineering roles –  Team co-location and Pair-Programming –  Test-Driven Development and repurposing of QA

� Then let go: –  Allow teams to experiment with process and find their voice –  Don’t try to hold on too tightly to the original spec or timeline –  Go live early and often; fail-fast; experiment


“We have to be agile. This environment is demonstrating

that agility. It allows you to do things as a team and do it quickly.”

- Bruce Broussard, CEO, Humana


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•  You must go full out •  You can start small •  Self selection •  Consider a new environment •  Build real applications that matter to the business •  Embrace open source

Be bold - it won’t work if you try to do it half-heartedly.

Take a leap of faith!


Picture of Dev Environment of the past. Fills screen. Your teams can’t look like this…


They need to look like this.


How you used to deploy – file ticket to get environment spun up done with a build; ask IT to deploy; some sense of being slow

Deploying and release management can’t look like this…


Picture of CF Deploy

It needs to look like this.


A Slide that says you can do this


Humana Digital Experience Center

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Embrace cloud platform evolution, adopt an agile development methodology, and let your developers find their voice.

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Thank You

A NEW PLATFORM FOR A NEW ERA

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