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170 Live Apps Migrated
to Pivotal Platform in 18 Months:
The Business of Transformation
Terry Miles, Portfolio Delivery, Intrado

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Multi–Year Technology and Product Transformation
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That’s
PCF.

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Coercion gets you quantity.
Engagement gets you quality.

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An AppTx team’s focus depends…
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Team metrics
12 Factor?
12 Factor!
Vendor networks
Program metrics
Legacy shut down
Tooling
12 Factor?
Team members
highly engaged
Team members
poorly engaged
Team leaders
eager to migrate
Team leaders
coerced to migrate
Always push
upskilling

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For PCF migrations,
the only POC
is delivery at scale.

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No POC will get you program-wide answers.
How cloud native are you, really?
• Databases
• File System Reliance
• Telemetry vs Logging
• App Boundaries
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Maximizing your ecosystem
• Load Tests
• Georedundancy
• Autoscaling
• Blue/Green
Optimizing your culture
• Full CI/CD
• Health Checks
• DevOps
• InfoSec
It’s probably
not about the
code.

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We’re not cloud agnostic; we’re cloud plural. And that’s okay.
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Your sponsors give you air cover.
Buy them time with ground cover.

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Technology Transformation Initiatives
A series of interdependent initiatives are being executed to transform Intrado’s legacy technologies
to next gen solutions based on the concepts of Cloud native and mobility first.
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PCF.

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Get engineers to talk about money.
Gamify it if you can.

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Present financials in ways that reward cloud nativity.
Engage engineers
• Choose a show back / charge back unit price that developers can control.
Engage quality assurance
• Price the lower environments.
• Reward and showcase test automation.
Engage architects
• Price shared services as part of a PCF show back / share back.
• Include licensing costs so all can shop to improve.
Engage app team leaders
• Price pre and post PCF release workflows. Focus on labor.
• Make it clear that more migrations mean lower costs for all tenants.
Interest
+
Relevancy
+
Control
_____________________
Engagement

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We did podcasts to elaborate.
Thanks to Tony Hansmann, Pivotal Global CTO!
“The Intrado Way” playlist on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkEgkNFf4_O6PovRCUD5aF3zs5JyB6Dtr