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The Agile Architecture Revolution

Jason BloombergPresident

[email protected]

@theebizwizard

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

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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

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 brittlenessThe opposite of brittleness

Innovativeness

• The ability to introduce change into the business environment in order to achieve a strategicadvantage– 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

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

AgileDigital

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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 WorldThe Agile World

The Digital WorldThe Digital World

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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 TransformationDigital Transformation = Business Transformation

Customer Experience

TechnologyInternal

Organization

All of the Above

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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

flourish

OptimizationEstablish

feedback loops that maximize

business outcome

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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


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Mitigate risk with resilienceMitigate risk with resilience

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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-organizeLet CODE self-organize

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There is no Shortcut!

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


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Jason BloombergPresident, Intellyx

[email protected]

@theebizwizard

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