[Europe merge world tour] cic scm from developer tool to corp versioning

1. SCM: From Developer Tool to
Corporate Versioning
Bola Rotibi, Research Director
Ian Murphy, Principal Analyst
Creative Intellect Consulting
Perforce Merge World Tour
2013
London
May 16, 2013

2. CIC: Who are we?
¡ Analyst research, advisory
and consulting firm
¡ Focus on Software
development, delivery and
lifecycle management
¡ Combined 90+ years IT
industry and analyst
experience
¡ Authored many reports and
thought leading research
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3. Market Insights
Real world feedback
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4. The changing world order
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Finding balance is crucial

5. An expanded conversation
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“Help me
reduce
costs”
“Help me
grow the
business”
“Help me
be more
efficient”
“Help me
innovate”
“Help me
adapt and
deliver
quickly”
Business Efficiency
& Productivity
Business Agility & Expansion
“Help me
improve the
quality”
“How can I
leverage...”
“How can I
scale without
scaling costs”

6. CIC IT Decision Maker Study
2011/2013
¡ Three industry sectors
¡ Financial
¡ Retail & manufacturing
¡ Communications
¡ Two interviews per
organization
¡ Business
¡ Technology
¡ Role level
¡ Senior business
management and
technical leads
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7. Resulting drivers raising the
bar
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Driving business growth &
competitiveness
Raising the operational bar
Market reach &
engagement
Actionable Insight
Business, Operations, Customer, Supplier – Big data correlations and support

8. Business imperatives
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Systems of
record
Systems of
engagement

9. Technology opportunities
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¡ For systems of record and engagement
¡ Clients and employees
How we
can do it
What we can
do to the
experience

10. Challenges
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11. A shift in focus and potential
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ser Power & Control
Choice Expectations
Influence Involvement
Self determination & service
Making User Experience & Engagement Matter
Shifting liability & risk

12. Balancing competing
concerns & pressures
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Transparency
Visibility,
Insight
Globaliza7on
&
Distributed
teams
and
systems
Mul7ple
Sourcing
Flexibility
of
choice
&
Managed
governance
End-­‐to-­‐end
velocity
with
disparate
workflows
&
team
dynamics
Interoperability
Skill
u7liza7on
&
transfer
Automa7on

13. What is SCM?
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An effective &
disciplined means of
managing software
evolution

14. Traditional SCM Targets
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Application
Typical
Users

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SCM Evolutions: Content Explosion
¡ Increasing volume of
Content
¡ Multiple formats
¡ New target roles
¡ Multiple authors
¡ Team expansion
¡ Collaboration
¡ Parallel development
¡ Multi points of return
¡ Geographical input
¡ Roll back
¡ Change control
¡ Non linear editing processes

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New Alignments: Broader reach
Technical
Non-Technical

17. A need for version control
beyond IT
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18. A business case for
corporate versioning
¡ 83% of Knowledge workers admitting to losing or wasting time
each day on document version issues.
¡ 73% not being able to find the right file
¡ 57% confusion over the right version
¡ 47% working on the wrong version
¡ 48% of users admit to sending the wrong version of a document,
to co-workers, their boss, to customers and suppliers.
¡ 90% of users still use email for document collaboration
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19. Imperatives for Version control
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Governance
Process
Improvement
& Productivity
Legal
Security
Version Control

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20An active market with a broad
spectrum of solutions
SCM/CMDB
Software /
Source Code
Configuration
Management
Document
Management
Content
Management
Light weight
Doc
Management
+ file sharing
Version
Control
Direction of complexity
A Host of others

21. What is needed: Version by
default not exception
¡ Usability & Accessibility
¡ Intuitive -non linear
interaction
¡ Multi platform and device
¡ Cloud delivery
¡ Wide range file formats
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¡ Robust Security Controls
¡ Core Version Control
¡ Process workflow &
orchestration
¡ Collaboration support
¡ Social media controls &
notification

22. Future Opportunities
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LAW: Legal
Development
NHS Patient
Record
Control
Version by
Design

23. Version Control Considerations
¡ Identify and assess Version Control needs
¡ Determine scope of application
¡ Departmental / Function
¡ Enterprise wide interoperability
¡ Delivery and access model
¡ Cloud
¡ On-premise
¡ Client management portal or embedded
¡ Skill capabilities
¡ Technical/non-technical
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24. Thank You
Any Questions?
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