How to deliver business functionality in days, not weeks.

1. From Idea to
Implementation
Speeding the delivery of business functionality to the end user.

2. Current IT Management Challenges
• The average large IT project runs 45% over budget, 7% over time, and
delivers 56% less value than expected.
• 1 in 6 IT projects has an average cost overrun of 200% and a schedule
overrun of 70%.
• 45% admit they are unclear on the business objectives of their IT projects.
• 78% stated their project requirements are usually or always out of sync
with the business.
• 75% of IT project leaders believe their projects are “doomed from the
start.”
• 17% of large IT projects (budgets >= 10 million) go so badly they threaten
the existence of the company.
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3. Top Contributors to IT Project Failure
• Unclear objectives
• lack of business focus / lack of business direction
• Unrealistic schedule
• reactive planning
• Shifting requirements
• Inflexible to change
• Technical complexity
• Misaligned teams
• missing skills
• Unexplained causes
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4. Faster and Cheaper
• Business demands change rapidly and so should IT
• Rapid change need not come at a premium
• Iterate between business and IT, team effort
• Do not re-invent the wheel / Embrace Open Source
• Managed approaches to the use of Open Source
• Look to contribute to Open Source.
• Consider Cloud as a platform
• Managed
• No hardware costs
• No maintenance
• Excellent services (deployment included)
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Business IT Collaboration
• Use Cases.
• Clear direction from the business.
• Collaborative discussions.
• IT is a service to the business.
Development
• Agile methodology
• Bottom-up approach
• TDD
• Unit Testing
• Regression Testing
• Continuous Integration
• Develop / Test / Deploy
Deployment
• Automated
• Consistent
• Quality Assurance
• Technology Operations

6. Business IT Collaboration
• Mike Lee
• Senior UX Designer
• mike.lee@eikospartners.com
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7. Development
• Erica Gucciardo
• erica.gucciardo@eikospartners.com
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8. Deployment
• Ernie Salazar
• ernie.salazar@eikospartners.com
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9. Deployment Cycle Demo
gitpush
gitpull
remote ‘git pull’
update ui
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10. What needs to change?
• Business users and IT need to collaborate
• Agree on features, be flexible to changes in requirements or technical
complexity
• Business sponsorship
• Alignment of skills to appropriate work
• Ensure that the teams deployed to implement something are well suited to
the job.
• Agility
• Starts with the business
• IT has to be nimble, responsive to the needs of their clients.
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11. Core Elements
• Collaboration between ideas team and Implementation team
• Flexible infrastructure that can bend to the demands of the business.
• Small iterations, fast to fail, fast to succeed
• Regression Testing
• Automation of deployments to multiple platforms
• Browser
• Mobile
• Desktop
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12. Key Elements
• Framework solutions
• Tooling (Assembla, Slack, GIT, JIRA, etc.)
• Open Source libraries.
• Window Manager JS
• Scale JS
• Angular2
• React
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13. Keys to success
• Full engagement with the business users
• Clear and concise Use Cases
• These are changeable as the business changes.
• IT that collaborates with the Business
• IT is a service to support business.
• Continuous Integration is key.
• Code check-in
• Code regression testing
• Code deployment
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14. How can we help?
• This is what we do
• 100’s of years of experience
• We mentor teams
• Improve productivity
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15. Any Questions?
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