XXXXX Technical Redesign – Don Krapohl, 2012

Don Krapohl Strategic Architect XXXXXXXXXXXXX Intelligence Solutions Division

XXXXX Technical Redesign – Don Krapohl, 2012

Introduction

Value Proposition

System Architecture

Execution Strategy

Review

XXXXX Technical Redesign – Don Krapohl, 2012

Customer – Military Customer’s Enterprise

400,000 active users

Worldwide distribution

Context No vendor support for technology

Increasingly secure workstations

Command relocating

Inability to gain consensus

XXXXX Technical Redesign – Don Krapohl, 2012

XXXXX Technical Redesign – Don Krapohl, 2012

Solve The Current Problem Only address actual technical risk

Position the Customer Design for change

Decouple data from application

Optimize existing licensing

Select for commodity technical skills

Create Value Deliver earned value continuously

$5M, 1.5 year execution

Solve The Current Problem Total rewrite

Position the Customer Use service-oriented architecture

Create Value 1-2 massive releases

$10-12M, 3.5-5 year execution

Our Proposal Competitor Proposals

Agility Capability Value

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XXXXX Technical Redesign – Don Krapohl, 2012

Figure 1- DoDAF AV-1: Business Ecosystem

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Workstations

Locally-attached storage

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Only address actual technical risk

Design for change

Decouple data from application

Optimize existing licensing

Select for comm

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Deliver earned value continuously

Database and new features out of scope X X X X X

Perform literal translation of features X X X

Portable and scalable architecture X X X X X

Service-oriented and stateless X X X X X

Provide all current capabilities X X X

Maintain technical quality X X X X X

Produce product in short succession X X

Figure 3 - Summary requirements and business value correlation

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Workstations

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Business servers provisioned on demand

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Figure 4 – Final Physical Design

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Add Remove

UX COM, COM+

Direct database access

Build common presentation framework

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SAN attach, virtualize, configure hypervisor

Encapsulate UI in Presenter or View (MVC/MVP)

Business

SAN attach, virtualize, configure hypervisor

Add web services

Consume Enterprise services

Data

Inject entity framework

Figure 5 – Gap Analysis, Generalized

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XXXXX Technical Redesign – Don Krapohl, 2012

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Figure 6 – Development Lifecycle Relative Temporal View

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Code Business Logic

Write Data Svcs.

Code Enterprise Svcs.

Create Wireframes

Code UI Behaviors

Build Cubes Create Reports

Write Test Scripts

Validate Fitness

Test System

Build Infrastructure

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Figure 7 – Software Development Process

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Quality

Mean +5.0% Tier II incident increase at 7 days post-deployment Previous major release tier III ticket count at 7 days was 1000/day.

Mean +1.0% Tier III incident increase at 7 days post-deployment

Performance Mean cost/schedule variance 1.0 at closure

Acceptance Customer accepted all product on schedule

XXXXX Technical Redesign – Don Krapohl, 2012

XXXXX Technical Redesign – Don Krapohl, 2012

Situation Imminent catastrophic failure, customer immobile

Need Limited technology refresh

Technical Solution Scalable infrastructure and software design

Design for change, assume impermanence

Execution Strategy “Right” scope, agile organization, agile methods, flexible design

Outcome Project completed successfully

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XXXXX Technical Redesign – Don Krapohl, 2012

XXXXX Technical Redesign – Don Krapohl, 2012

HR Resource Mgt. Training

Mobilization Ledge Maintenance Training Maintenance

Personnel Actions GAAP ledger Physical Fitness Training

Personnel Orders Ledger Reports Common Task Training

Personnel Records Maintenance RFO Weapon Qualification

Personnel Reports RFO Approvals (& Automated Order Writer) Training Calendar

Position Management Accounting Archival and Retrieval Commanders Training Assessment (CTA)

Retirement Point Accounting Civilian Maintenance

Strength Management Financial Data Export

HQ Administration RM Reports

Standard Financial System

Tour History

RSC/DRC Fund Administer

Support Table Maintenance

Figure 8 – Summarized Business Processes Redesigned

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Quality Bus. Analyst C C R C C R C A R I

Tester C A I A I

Support Infra. Engr. C C C C A R

Release Mgr. C R A

A Accountable - This role is the single role that must turn over the deliverable

R Responsible - An active contributor, usually providing a supporting artifact

C Consulted - Individuals with expert domain knowledge consulted for feedback

I Informed - Receives formal notice of the activity

Figure 9 – Responsibilities and Roles Correlated

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Step Activity Accountable Role Deliverable Completed By Completion Date

1 Scope sprint PM Schedule

WBS

Seed assignments

2 Analyze & request artifacts Bus. Svcs. Dev. TFS work queues

3 Code business logic Bus. Svcs. Dev. Middle-tier services

4 Modify database DBA DB mod scripts

5 Write data services Data Svcs. Dev. Strongly-typed service

6 Code enterprise services Ent. Svcs. Dev. Enterprise service

Updated service catalog

7 Create UI wireframes UX Dev. UI wireframe

8 Code UI behaviors Data Svcs. Dev. javascript and code behinds

9 Build cubes BI Dev. Dimensions and cubes

10 Create fixed-design reports BI Dev. Reports

11 Write test scripts Tester Test scripts

12 Validate fitness Bus. Analyst Signature on test script

13 Test system (unit, int., reg., load) Tester Executed test scripts

14 Provide infrastructure Infra. Engr. Servers, network, HVAC

15 Deploy products Release Mgr. Completed production change request

Figure 10 – Activity and Deliverables Correlated

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Figure 11 – PMBOK, SDLC, and ITIL Methodologies Correlated