Global Complex Project - How to deliver efficiently.

Delivering Code For A
Global Complex Project.
Stencil Research Study
The Modernization, Transformation Pattern!
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Businesses Today
• Globalization
• Need To Do Collaborative Business
• Fast Roll out, to beat competition - MVP
• Face disruption
• Partnerships
• Tap value from data
• Applying Artiﬁcial Intelligence
• Transformation & Modernization.

How does “IT” Look?
•Compelling demand from board to grow business, disrupt and stand ahead of the curve.
•Experienced Engineers Overloaded With Work
•New Generation Engineers Loaded With New Technology
•Staff Augmentation Companies Struggling To Fill Positions
•Systems Integrators Functioning In Silos, Modernized Approaches Are Not Done
•Vendors With Products Suited For An Enterprise Lacks Enterprise IT Landscape.
•A Component OFFSHORE Constantly Struggles To Be Visible And Gets Lost.
•Consumers search in the dark
A CxO’s Burden

Resource Constraints
•Lack of resources is a Major Concern
•There is lack of experienced resources.
•When approvals are given to hire, all you get is fresh hands.
•High proﬁle candidates even if paid high, they are not available.
Above all, favoritism and try to save each ones own A**
annoyingly interferes with innovation attempts.
Content writers imagine more than reality and infamous publishers
dig into the money pit and write anything money pays for.

All of the above Presents a challenge
for any software development,
modernization or transformation.
Therefore, many transformation or modernization, next generation initiatives
simply gets delayed exorbitantly and then FAIL. DELAY MEANS FAILED!

then what do you need to do,
in order to make large enterprise projects succeed?
Succeed, without turbulence, cost effective and
achieve seamless continuous delivery ?
CxO
Delivery Org.

If you want to hear somebody talk about the subject,
somebody who has walked through hot ﬂames, then continue.
If you think there is an answer, ﬁlled inside a
small capsule in this presentation, then you
can close the presentation right now and go
have a burger or a drink, perhaps two.
Did you know that in TANTRIC ARTS of INDIA
It has been very clearly stated that if symbols like
SWASTIK is drawn in a wrong way, it could have adverse
and catastrophic changes around? Nazi symbol is opposite of actual swastika
and hence the catastrophe.

Ok. So lets start.
I will try to tell these things very
brieﬂy.Remember, I am No wizard.
Lets Begin and remember, Imagination is more
important than Knowledge.
Well begun is half done. ~ Aristotle

Modernization, Transformation,
Next Generation.
While Path may be different, all converge towards The following
1. New Technology
2. More Ease Of Business.
3. AGILE And Adaptive To Changing Business Dynamics
4. Attaining Value From Data
5. Scaling Due To Virality Or Simply Growth In Business
6. Cloud Enablement
7. Alignment
8. Security And More…. Stencil Research Study

Chances are that your project may fall in
one of the three categories,
Modernization, Transformation, Next
Generation Application.
May what it be, the Challenges are all the same!
Approaches, Here is how.
Tell me something my friend, have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?
The Joker - Bat Man

When changing
Change The Orientation
Any change begins with a change.
Re-arrange the seating of developers, analysts
and other stake holders.
1 One

Consider the following moving
parts.
People
Process
Platform
Technology
Bring harmony to the above moving parts. This is art.
When you have a distributed development team, agility
may go beyond expectations.
2 Two

Bring Creativity Into Perspectives.
Conduct creative sessions. Creative developers and
complexity ﬁlled consultants enjoy that.
Collaborate
Use social media to leak out their intellectual emotions.
Tap into their inner minds. Remember every individual
has the power. Its just that they don’t know it until
tapped.
3
Three

Agility Is Alignment and that is
Business Visibility.
Initiate creation of IT Component portfolio.
Eyeball on what is leaking resources.
Propagate general understanding of projects
across entire enterprise teams. (This may be
difﬁcult for some people due to personal
interests and boundary deﬁnitions. Remember,
it takes a champion to take this bold step.)

Conduct
architecture
discussions.
Moderate heavily.
Keep Focused On
a. Existing Problems or 
Issues.
b. Future path. Stencil Research Study

Bring HR Factor.
HR Does Have Innumerable ways to help employee satisfaction
and this in turn may help building enthusiasm which may help in
employee satisfaction. This satisfaction is a huge factor to
kickstart businesses for IT transformations.

Architecture Matters
Code Is The Soul.

Code is beautiful.
Technology is driven by code.
Having emphasis on code quality, is of great
importance.
Continuous integration and Delivery must be
the train on which we all board.

Inculcate Devops Practices
Within the enterprise.

Abandoned Frameworks And New
Generation Problem.
Due to virality of applications, to face
disruptions and for being able to roll out
functionality rapidly, new generation developers
have a tendency to deep dive for framework.
While re-use is good, keep an eye on abandoned
frameworks ﬂoating around the internet.
Did you know that in Abandoned frameworks kill considerable amount of time
among developers. Buggy and supported by none, developers bang their head
against the wall to try and solve issues which would be difﬁcult and time consuming.

Be a leader, not a boss!
You can’t be a good leader without a good character.

Offshore/Onsite People, Power
And Pride.
Remember, people may forget whatever you do, but will
never forget how you made them feel! ~Maya Angelou.
The power of imagination makes us inﬁnite ~ John Muir
I have a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.
~Ford
Take pride in your work, but that is not all there is.
~ ME

IT is a journey
Go through the plains, blue rich mountains
and the rivers. IT Implementation is a journey,
enjoy IT
Bring joy to the people and see how big you
attain.
Failure on IT Projects - Statistics Next.

Statistics on IT Project Failure
AND Why?
• On average, projects go over budget
• by 27 percent of their intended cost. (Harvard Review) 
When projects cross beyond budgets, it is a driving force for
project to fail.
• On average, one in six projects saw a budget  
overrun of 200 percent. (Harvard Review)
• IT failure rates are estimated to be between  
5–15 percent, accounting for a loss of $50–$150  
billion per year in the United States alone. Harvard Review)
• Projects with budgets over $1 million have  
a 50 percent higher failure rate than projects 
with budgets under $350,000. (Gartner)
• There are projects that fail because there are no effective
sponsors who could give direction.

“Next Generation” Projects Or
“Modernization” Efforts are
alarmingly delayed or failing.
•Employee who has been with the organization for a long time is causing communication
gaps. Technical discussions bounces within them. Lack of understanding of new
technology and trends in the industry.
•Favoritism alarmingly plays bigger role in failure.
•Employee insecurity on high end or high profile people cripples the initiatives.
•Recruitment efforts are targeted at either vested interests or qualified hands are feared
with power take down.
•Lack of availability of high end specialists for projects in the first place. Those who are
available are being feared as stated above.
•Same old recruitment process. Engineers are working elsewhere.
•Un-Availability of champions. Leadership
•Remember - Freedom lies in being bold ~ Robert Frost

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