GUIDING YOUR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Jim WiltSr. Principal Enterprise Architect

Get Back the Weekend!

January 2017Digital Innovation, Strategy, Transformation

Surrender to Reason (Dream Theater)

Are your weekends flooded with worries of legacy system failure?

It May Be Time To Transform…

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3 – Things to Consider

Become Digital… (Iasa Business Technology Strategy pillar)

• to increase agility & extend your customer reach

Govern (yea, the “G” word)… (Iasa IT Environment pillar)

• to foster a more effective and impacting business

Go Bimodal… (Iasa Human Dynamics pillar)• to contain costs and accelerate adoption

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Becoming a Digital Business (APIs are the gateway for any business becoming digital!)

You're a taxi company but own no automobiles

You're a hotel chain but own no property

You're a retail outlet but have no storefront

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Becoming a Digital Business It’s for any business, really!

Don’t wait, just start publishing your APIs!

Use Customer Journeys to Drive Digital Transformation

Govern – Because Nobody Else Will…

You belong here

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Governance is essentially about ensuring that business is conducted properly. It is less about overt control and

strict adherence to rules, and more about guidance and effective and equitable usage of resources to ensure

sustainability of an organization's strategic objectives.

TOGAF

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TOGAF® 9.1 Part VII: Architecture Capability Framework – 50. Architecture Governance

Simply Stated… mic drop!

Patterns

Ref Architectures

Principles

Standards

Policy

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Governance (to Digital Actualization)

Policies – fired if broken

Standards – boundaries for safety, consistency and reliability

Principles – decision-making guidance

Patterns – repeatable abstractions

Reference Architectures – ideal-state recipes

Self Assessment– [trust/verify] DevOp teams self-verify

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Governance is Guidance Top Industry articles from top leaders on APIs, microservices,

cloud, etc.Internal axioms,

principles, reference architectures,

checklists, 30-day challenges, etc.

Great short (and a few long) videos to bring home Digital Transformation concepts.

Incubation labs, sandboxes, and hackathons provide hands-on experiences.

Go Bimodal… …or die!

• Many opinions for & against

• Nobody wants to address talent issues – until it’s too late

• It eventually becomes necessary, don’t fight it

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Deliver Your Digital Platform BimodallyMonolithic legacy systems are so tightly coupled, even a minor change is major

A Sea Change in Enterprise IT - Geoffrey Moore, 2011 AIIM

Loosely coupled stateless services connected via RESTful APIs for plug-n-play components

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Bimodal→Human Capital Talent Investment = really, really hard

• Embrace Failure – 5 failures to 1 success will still be faster – there will be more iterations as you learn/transform. There will always be failures.

• Reward Mode 2 and promote Mode 1→2 self-selected transformation.

• Time & Budget – Mode 1 will need much support, encouragement, and venting – give appropriate time, space, and budget for supporting transformation education. Got a training plan?

• Patience, it won't happen over night – it will take much longer (and cost much more) with greater pain than you can ever anticipate (think mile-20 in a marathon).

Andy Ruth talked on human change for Digital Transformation today – get his slides!

Build a Roadmap for All Three

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Tools & Repositories

Gateways & Platforms

Digital Pipeline

Training

Standards

Boot Camps & Hackathons

Checklists

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Critical Mass

2-Pizza Teams

Automated Governance

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targeted outcome Non-Mission CriticalLow Impact

Non-Mission CriticalHigh Visibility

Mission CriticalLow Impact

Mission CriticalHigh Impact

Govern Appropriately (How much? When?)digital maturity Basic Standardized Rationalized Dynamic

governance level/bias

Deliver for the Team

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Deliver with the Team

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Guide/Advise the Team (review

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targeted outcome (Mode 1)Non-Mission Critical

Low Impact

(Mode 1+)Non-Mission Critical

High Visibility

(Early Mode 2)Mission Critical

Low Impact

(Made 2)Mission Critical

High Impact

Team Delivers & Guides

Others (teach)

Provide guidance, examples,

assistance

Stay out of the way!

Reap Benefits

• Reduced costs/greater footprint

• Increased agility, more customers

• More effective/profitable business

Play on the weekend!

Appendix A: Example VideosEvent Sourcing using CQRS

State in a Stateless WorldStateful vs. Stateless

Rest API

Appendix B Example Reference Links APIs

API Checklist API Gateway API University API Security Guidelines

CQRS CQRS Explained CQRS Pattern CQRS Tutorial

Data Streaming 101 Streaming 102

Digital Transformation Terms, Tools, and Apps The Twelve-Factor App

Microservices Rules of Thumb Tradeoffs Defined

Serverless Architectures Economy AWS Lambda