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The Agile Architecture Revolution

Jason BloombergPresident

[email protected]

@theebizwizard

Copyright © 2015, Intellyx, LLC2

About Jason Bloomberg

• President of Intellyx

• Advise companies on their digital transformation initiatives & help vendors communicate their agility stories

• Run Bloomberg Agile Architecture Certification course around the world

• Write for Forbes & Wired on Digital Transformation

• Buy my latest book, The Agile Architecture Revolution


You Say You Want a Revolution…


Different Meanings of “Agile”

• “Agile-with-a-capital-A”– Software development

that follows the Agile Manifesto

• General meaning of “agile”– Business agility as

property of an organization

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Business Agility

• Responsiveness– Tactical value

• Resilience– Risk mitigation

• Innovativeness– Strategic value

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Ability to respond to change in the business environment and leverage change for competitive advantage


Responsiveness

• The ability to respond quickly and efficiently to (potentially) positive change in the business environment– Changing customer demand– Changing marketplace

environment– Changing supply chain

factors• Tactical driver

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Resilience

• The ability to respond quickly and efficiently to negative change in the business environment– Managing risk– Bouncing back from

adverse events– Disaster recovery

• Tactical business driver

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The opposite of brittleness


Innovativeness

• The ability to introduce change into the business environment in order to achieve a strategic advantage– New products or services– Expand market share– Enter new markets

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Where’s Our Business Agility?

• Organizations must be responsive, resilient, and innovative

• Business agility is a property of the enterprise• People and technology can be flexible as well,

but we must architect our organizations to be agile

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Why Agile Software Architecture isn’t Agile

• Agile movement focuses on working software – Focus on getting the software to meet its

requirements – Get all roadblocks out of the way

• Agile-built software is coded to be fit for purpose

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Fit-for-Purpose Often Means Brittle

• Agile software built intentionally with only today’s needs in mind

• Planning for unexpected contingencies contrary to Agile approach

Brittle software leads to brittle organizations

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The Goal of Agile Software

• Requirement to build software that responds to changing requirements

• Inherent flexibility vs. rapid development & deployment

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DevOps Drumbeat


From DevOps to “BizOps”

• Before: dev chucking code to test, then over wall to ops

• Now: continuous test, continuous deployment• In progress: responsiveness to continuous

requirements change & variation

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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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The Core Business Goal

AgileDigital

Transformation


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

digital world

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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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Shifting the Center of Gravity

Center of gravity is software

Center of gravity is the end-user

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The Agile World

The Digital World


The End-to-End Digital Challenge

• Digital technology begins at the customer touchpoint• Web & mobile apps include numerous third-party

services– Generally run in cloud

• Apps connect to back end databases & systems of record– In cloud & on premise

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Digital Transformation

What are you transforming?

Digital Transformation = Business Transformation

Customer Experience

Technology

Internal Organizatio

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All of the Above


Understanding the Business Agility Driver

• Architects must recognize and identify agility drivers

• Stakeholders may or may not identify drivers as such

• Business drivers always connect to mission priority

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Optimization vs. Innovation

InnovationDisrupt status quo

to allow human creativity to

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OptimizationEstablish

feedback loops that maximize

business outcome


Innovation Requires Disruption

• External Disruption– Competitive pressures/new

entrants– Globalization– Regulation

• Internal Disruption– Digital Transformation

efforts– Innovation initiatives

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Disruption Introduces Risk

• Optimization without disruption stifles innovation

• Disruption without optimization is an innovation crap shoot

• Optimize what you can & disrupt what you must P

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Mitigate risk with resilience


New Role for Enterprise Architects

• Leverage data to properly balance optimization and disruption

• Essential for achieving market-leading levels of innovation

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The Center of Digital Excellence

• EA-centric team responsible for end-to-end best practice across digital effort

• De-emphasize “architecture” title

• How about Director of Digital Excellence?

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Let CODE self-organize


There is no Shortcut!

Remember, Digital Transformation isn’t about the Digital, it’s about the Transformation!

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