What does it mean for an organisation to try to become cloud-native?

1. People, not Platforms (Lite)
http://richardnilsen.com/tag/political-art/
@dan0young

2. Conway’s law
DevOps
Continuous Delivery
Micro-services
12 Factor
Some Marc Andreessen quote
http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/ear/ear.htm

3. Enterprise:
Too busy to
improve.

4. ‘We don’t see things as
they are, we see things as
we are’
- Anais Nin
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/weirdnewsvideo/10246867/University-students-
made-to-wear-anti-cheating-helmets.html
https://flowchainsensei.wordpress.com/2014/09/03/why-corporates-cant-change/

5. Where is my Gantt Chart for
cloud-native transformation?
http://www.symmetrygymdubai.com/blog/symmetry-secret-sauce/

6. Step 1:
Pursue Purpose,
not Profits
http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/organization/agility_it_rhymes_with_stability
Image: @dianaofportland

7. Step 2:
Measure Outcomes,
not Outputs
http://www.papergreat.com/2012/01/jc-savage-of-belfast-tailor-and.html

8. Step 3:
Manage Products,
not Projects
http://lifehacker.com/5965280/follow-jeff-bezos-two-pizza-rule-to-avoid-the-dangers-of-
groupthink

9. What’s wrong?
You’re in a complex
adaptive system
http://www.logicalmodel.net/a-new-generation-of-thinking-it-isnt-just-about-projects/

10. Beware of
corporate
antibodies.
http://www.interactive-biology.com/3538/what-is-antigen-antibody-complex/

11. Shifting
CxO focus
Outcomes
Value
Urgency
Deliverables
Cost
Deadlines

12. Further
reading.

13. @dan0young
dan.young@engineerbetter.com