How do I get the most value out of my technology investments?
•
3 likes•744 views
This document discusses how to get the most value from technology investments by defining strategic IT versus utility IT, focusing on time to market, maximizing value over waste, and roadmap planning. It notes that 66% of projects fail or have marginal results, and outlines obstacles like slow decision making and silos. The document advocates focusing on strategic agility, continuous delivery, and aligning IT investments with business opportunities and capabilities.
Report
Share
Report
Share
Download to read offline
Recommended
Anton Nekic IS PPM Overhead or Competitive Advantage v2-4
This document discusses project portfolio management (PPM) and the role of project management offices (PMOs). It suggests that traditional PPM approaches focused on compliance, reporting, and metrics are no longer sufficient, and that PMOs must shift to directly demonstrating value and competitive advantage. The document also predicts that PPM solutions will move towards real-time exception management and linking project performance to key business indicators. Finally, it emphasizes the need for PPM consultants to bring experience and tools that can both optimize costs and guarantee outcomes.
Saugatuck MassTLC Cloud summit-13oct2011
Bruce Guptill, SVP of Saugatuck Technology, presented research showing that over 90% of ISVs are developing cloud-based offerings. The money and long term success is in cloud-based models, as the traditional software business model will be outdated within 3-4 years. Opportunities in cloud go beyond just applications to include platforms, developer tools, infrastructure and more. ISVs should follow the money and transition to cloud-based models to avoid risks of being left behind as the industry shifts overwhelmingly to cloud.
Evolving Role of Product Manager
This presentation talks about the shift in the product manager role based on several key outside trends: agile software development techniques, cloud / saas, and user experience/design.
Why cost optimization is the way of the future
The current climate has affected Industries all across the world. Join our team as we discuss the differences between cost-cutting and cost optimization and why we should be looking to make decisions for long term growth even in a time of crisis. Topics include:
What is cost optimization and how does that differ from cost-cutting?
What are good costs and bad costs?
Which costs should you cut first?
Empower Your Organization with Teams & Remote Work Crisis Management
The document discusses crisis management and how technology can help organizations prepare for and respond to crises. It defines crisis management and lists its key aspects such as communications, disaster response plans, risk audits, and minimizing financial and reputational impacts. It then describes several Microsoft technologies and tools that can assist with crisis communication, remote work, and automating responses, including SharePoint, Yammer, Teams, bots, and templates built using the Power Platform.
The Total Economic Impact of Using ThoughtWorks' Agile Development Approach
This document analyzes the total economic impact of using ThoughtWorks' agile development approach based on interviews with four client organizations. It finds that clients saw benefits such as improved efficiency and quality from ThoughtWorks' experienced staff, and earlier delivery of key business requirements through the agile methodology. The analysis estimates potential returns on investment of 23-66% over three years for clients. It provides a framework for organizations to evaluate the potential costs and benefits of engaging ThoughtWorks for agile software projects.
Continuous Loyalty - From Transactions to Interactions
How do you encourage customers to repeatedly choose your brand in the face of alternatives?
This is the question we posed at our executive retail breakfast series in London, Manchester and Hamburg this month.
Platforms for growth retail executive breakfast: Connecting digital strategy ...
The ThoughtWorks Retail team presented to Australia's top retailers across Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane on the topic 'how to connect your digital strategy to technology'.
Recommended
Anton Nekic IS PPM Overhead or Competitive Advantage v2-4
This document discusses project portfolio management (PPM) and the role of project management offices (PMOs). It suggests that traditional PPM approaches focused on compliance, reporting, and metrics are no longer sufficient, and that PMOs must shift to directly demonstrating value and competitive advantage. The document also predicts that PPM solutions will move towards real-time exception management and linking project performance to key business indicators. Finally, it emphasizes the need for PPM consultants to bring experience and tools that can both optimize costs and guarantee outcomes.
Saugatuck MassTLC Cloud summit-13oct2011
Bruce Guptill, SVP of Saugatuck Technology, presented research showing that over 90% of ISVs are developing cloud-based offerings. The money and long term success is in cloud-based models, as the traditional software business model will be outdated within 3-4 years. Opportunities in cloud go beyond just applications to include platforms, developer tools, infrastructure and more. ISVs should follow the money and transition to cloud-based models to avoid risks of being left behind as the industry shifts overwhelmingly to cloud.
Evolving Role of Product Manager
This presentation talks about the shift in the product manager role based on several key outside trends: agile software development techniques, cloud / saas, and user experience/design.
Why cost optimization is the way of the future
The current climate has affected Industries all across the world. Join our team as we discuss the differences between cost-cutting and cost optimization and why we should be looking to make decisions for long term growth even in a time of crisis. Topics include:
What is cost optimization and how does that differ from cost-cutting?
What are good costs and bad costs?
Which costs should you cut first?
Empower Your Organization with Teams & Remote Work Crisis Management
The document discusses crisis management and how technology can help organizations prepare for and respond to crises. It defines crisis management and lists its key aspects such as communications, disaster response plans, risk audits, and minimizing financial and reputational impacts. It then describes several Microsoft technologies and tools that can assist with crisis communication, remote work, and automating responses, including SharePoint, Yammer, Teams, bots, and templates built using the Power Platform.
The Total Economic Impact of Using ThoughtWorks' Agile Development Approach
This document analyzes the total economic impact of using ThoughtWorks' agile development approach based on interviews with four client organizations. It finds that clients saw benefits such as improved efficiency and quality from ThoughtWorks' experienced staff, and earlier delivery of key business requirements through the agile methodology. The analysis estimates potential returns on investment of 23-66% over three years for clients. It provides a framework for organizations to evaluate the potential costs and benefits of engaging ThoughtWorks for agile software projects.
Continuous Loyalty - From Transactions to Interactions
How do you encourage customers to repeatedly choose your brand in the face of alternatives?
This is the question we posed at our executive retail breakfast series in London, Manchester and Hamburg this month.
Platforms for growth retail executive breakfast: Connecting digital strategy ...
The ThoughtWorks Retail team presented to Australia's top retailers across Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane on the topic 'how to connect your digital strategy to technology'.
Webinar for September 2019 - Organisational Design and Strategy
The document summarizes a panel discussion on organizational design and strategy for digital insurers. The panelists discussed topics like critical success factors for innovation projects, digital hiring trends, ingredients for organizational agility, structuring IT for a digital insurer, and knowledge gaps between business and IT teams. Participants provided feedback through polls on these topics and their interest in future events from The Digital Insurer.
2018 2-6 The Changing Role of Today's CIO
Not every organization can afford to have a full time CIO on staff. But someone will be fulfilling the role, even without the title. This seminar will help you understand the role a CIO fulfills within your organization, the areas you may not be addressing without a CIO, the risks and opportunities mitigated by the presence of a CIO, and the new world of outsourced IT.
Additionally, we will discuss if your organization can thrive without the latest technology, whether your IT team is doing what they should be, how your IT infrastructure measures up to best practices, and what technology you may be missing out on.
Career sessions IM
The document discusses the importance and growth of the IT sector in India, providing an overview of key trends such as the sector growing at a 10.71% CAGR, contributing 6.8% to India's GDP, and digital exports becoming a major growth driver projected to reach $350 billion by 2025.
Preparing for ERP? 9 Steps to Minimizing Mistakes and Maximizing ROI
When looking for a new ERP system, your organization should take the time to evaluate software vendors and their systems to find the best fit for your needs. Equally important is to look internally and evaluate the level of readiness for ERP among your project team and throughout your company. This informative webinar helps companies jump-start their efforts when considering an ERP project.
Get the details on avoiding common pitfalls when preparing for ERP including:
- Project Management Strategies
- Executive Alignment
- Data Conversion
- Future State Visioning
IT Governance – The missing compass in a technology changing world
Oladapo Ogundeji, CTO of Digital Jewels Ltd, gave a presentation on IT governance and its importance in today's technology changing world. He discussed that IT governance provides a formal process to define IT strategy and oversee its execution to achieve business goals. It also helps balance priorities like maximizing returns, increasing agility, and mitigating risks. Ogundeji covered frameworks like COBIT 5 and ISO 38500 that provide guidance on implementing IT governance and highlighted critical success factors like executive commitment, focus on execution, and competence in resources.
20150929 Playbook Transformational IT Run IT as a Business
Presentation from the first Run IT as a Business Meetup
Your CIO decides to build a transformational IT organization. Now what?
This playbook explains how to understand the corporate needs, set expectations, balance your budget, look critically at your team, and set the execution plan to achieve objectives.
Business capability mapping and business architecture
Business architecture and capabilities mapping captures and encapsulates the essence of a business. Using capabilities enterprises can model their current and desired business capabilities with rich semantics and leverage these as Lego blocks to compose products/ initiatives, overlay them with value streams and processes, and capture requirements to evolve capabilities. Business capability mapping helps companies establish a common language, fosters business/IT alignment, helps reduce redundancy and rework, and aligns execution with strategy.
SNP_Product_Guide_5_Factors_for_a_Successful_Transformation
This document outlines five key factors for a successful IT transformation during a merger or acquisition: 1) Early involvement of IT in planning to allow proper preparation, 2) Implementation expertise within IT to handle complex tasks, 3) A comprehensive view of business processes, applications, infrastructure and organization, 4) Experienced employees able to handle specialized challenges, and 5) Strong alignment between business and IT goals and processes. The success of M&A projects increasingly depends on effective involvement and support from the IT department.
Casestudy: The Case of bench management
For students and specially of Management, it is very difficult to solve casestudy and that too from different angles. Here is one of the casestudy from the Book "Human Resources Management: Text and Cases
By Rao". There are many points included wich are sayings of Experts too.
Key drivers that influence a CEO’s Software Outsourcing.pdf
In a dynamic environment, new-age digital technologies are challenging the status quo in every sector. How companies react to the changes in the digital landscape could determine whether they remain relevant in the marketplace. Today, the question every CEO has to delve into is “Will I disrupt, or be disrupted?”
Mis 012
The document discusses the evolution of IT management over four eras from the 1960s to present. It describes Cash and McFarlan's strategic grid model which categorizes IT management environments based on dependence on existing vs planned applications. Various generic IS strategies and principles of developing killer apps are outlined. Challenges of digital transformation and leveraging IT for competitive advantage are also summarized.
Mis 999
The document discusses strategic IT management and the evolution of IT over different eras from the 1960s to present. It outlines different IT management environments including strategic, turnaround, factory, and support based on an organization's dependence on existing and planned applications. Different IT strategies and challenges of implementation are also summarized.
CIO Roundtable Conference (Robert Walters VN): The Next-Gen CIO
The CIO role is fast evolving along with modern enterprises and businesses. What are the required skills for the next generation CIO to be successful in the 21st century? What does it mean for Vietnam IT professionals and the industry?
Challenges of IT Outsourcing for CEOs of Small.pdf
The pandemic has altered every facet of the business, and many companies outsource to adapt to the new normal. Many businesses now want to boost their operations and profits using contemporary technology.
Outsourcing has emerged as the new business paradigm, and major companies are scrambling to take advantage of its cost-saving and growth-promoting potential. It takes time and energy to settle into the adaptation phase when a business begins outsourcing for the first time.
Course12 2
This document provides an overview of part 2 of a course on competitive intelligence. It discusses key concepts in competitive intelligence including defining key intelligence topics to guide analysis. It emphasizes the importance of regular communication with users and tailoring reports to different decision-making styles. The document also outlines several analytical models used in competitive intelligence and cautions that reports should focus on meaningful findings and support conclusions with sources.
Digital Transformation with 2 Speed IT & Agile Scrum
Amit Kumar and Amit Anand discuss digital transformation at an enterprise using a 2 speed IT approach. They describe challenges faced including resistance to change and outdated architectures. Their solution was to create an elite development team using agile practices, innovation-ready architecture, and DevOps. This allowed for weekly releases and one-click deployments. It improved conversion rates, reduced time to market, and increased productivity.
Career Conversation Technology Consulting
A presentation was given on technology consulting that covered: understanding technology consulting and the required skillsets; common consulting types and examples; critical success factors for consultants; and how to prepare for a consulting role through resumes and case study interviews. The presentation provided frameworks to structure problem solving and highlighted sample case study questions that assess strategic recommendations, growth strategies, IT assessments, and application rationalization.
10-Step Strategic Account Alignment Process
Learn about the 10-Step Strategic Account Alignment Process:
- See the 10-step account planning and implementation process using real-world examples
- Focus on 3 of the biggest challenges facing strategic account management programs
- Learn the unique approach that Global Partners uses for the account planning and management process
I Can't Make THAT Decision!
The document discusses the importance of organizational health and the role of IT business partnerships. It emphasizes that healthy organizations have minimal politics and confusion, high morale and productivity, and low turnover. For IT organizations to be successful, they must understand business goals, participate in strategic planning, and leverage partnerships to align technology investments with desired business outcomes. Regular engagement with external customers through research and journey mapping is highlighted as a key factor in developing effective IT business partnerships.
Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit 2014 - Trip Report
Building a Lean and Agile I&O – The Engine for your Digital Business
Digitalization is redefining the future of business, challenging I&O leaders to bring fresh new thinking to the IT Infrastructure and Operations space.
Design System as a Product
Design System as a Product - Maria Elena Duenias, Esther Butcher
Design systems are a great example where web development and design meet. You can find innumerable resources on the internet, books and conferences on how to build them, and how they are exactly what your organization needs. But, building one requires a lot more than following a recipe. In this talk we are going to discuss how to build a design system as an internal product, and how it evolves to become what the users need.
Designers, Developers & Dogs
Designers, Developers and Dogs: Finding the magic balance between product and tech - Charlotte Vorbeck, ShareNow and Sahil Bajaj
How can an agile delivery team become a successful product team? When does collaboration between product and tech succeed and when not? Why do people in some teams inspire each other while others in the same environment don't speak the same language? In this talk we want to share our learnings and experiences from rebuilding an internal tool for customer support at ShareNow. What could have been just another boring rewrite surprisingly became one of our best experiences in collaboration. We will look at how a joint discovery phase helped us to come up with a shared vision, how a better team setup enabled us to do the necessary work, how focusing on the customer kept us aligned during our journey, and also how we built upon existing collaborative techniques to achieve this new level of cooperation and trust.
More Related Content
Similar to How do I get the most value out of my technology investments?
Webinar for September 2019 - Organisational Design and Strategy
The document summarizes a panel discussion on organizational design and strategy for digital insurers. The panelists discussed topics like critical success factors for innovation projects, digital hiring trends, ingredients for organizational agility, structuring IT for a digital insurer, and knowledge gaps between business and IT teams. Participants provided feedback through polls on these topics and their interest in future events from The Digital Insurer.
2018 2-6 The Changing Role of Today's CIO
Not every organization can afford to have a full time CIO on staff. But someone will be fulfilling the role, even without the title. This seminar will help you understand the role a CIO fulfills within your organization, the areas you may not be addressing without a CIO, the risks and opportunities mitigated by the presence of a CIO, and the new world of outsourced IT.
Additionally, we will discuss if your organization can thrive without the latest technology, whether your IT team is doing what they should be, how your IT infrastructure measures up to best practices, and what technology you may be missing out on.
Career sessions IM
The document discusses the importance and growth of the IT sector in India, providing an overview of key trends such as the sector growing at a 10.71% CAGR, contributing 6.8% to India's GDP, and digital exports becoming a major growth driver projected to reach $350 billion by 2025.
Preparing for ERP? 9 Steps to Minimizing Mistakes and Maximizing ROI
When looking for a new ERP system, your organization should take the time to evaluate software vendors and their systems to find the best fit for your needs. Equally important is to look internally and evaluate the level of readiness for ERP among your project team and throughout your company. This informative webinar helps companies jump-start their efforts when considering an ERP project.
Get the details on avoiding common pitfalls when preparing for ERP including:
- Project Management Strategies
- Executive Alignment
- Data Conversion
- Future State Visioning
IT Governance – The missing compass in a technology changing world
Oladapo Ogundeji, CTO of Digital Jewels Ltd, gave a presentation on IT governance and its importance in today's technology changing world. He discussed that IT governance provides a formal process to define IT strategy and oversee its execution to achieve business goals. It also helps balance priorities like maximizing returns, increasing agility, and mitigating risks. Ogundeji covered frameworks like COBIT 5 and ISO 38500 that provide guidance on implementing IT governance and highlighted critical success factors like executive commitment, focus on execution, and competence in resources.
20150929 Playbook Transformational IT Run IT as a Business
Presentation from the first Run IT as a Business Meetup
Your CIO decides to build a transformational IT organization. Now what?
This playbook explains how to understand the corporate needs, set expectations, balance your budget, look critically at your team, and set the execution plan to achieve objectives.
Business capability mapping and business architecture
Business architecture and capabilities mapping captures and encapsulates the essence of a business. Using capabilities enterprises can model their current and desired business capabilities with rich semantics and leverage these as Lego blocks to compose products/ initiatives, overlay them with value streams and processes, and capture requirements to evolve capabilities. Business capability mapping helps companies establish a common language, fosters business/IT alignment, helps reduce redundancy and rework, and aligns execution with strategy.
SNP_Product_Guide_5_Factors_for_a_Successful_Transformation
This document outlines five key factors for a successful IT transformation during a merger or acquisition: 1) Early involvement of IT in planning to allow proper preparation, 2) Implementation expertise within IT to handle complex tasks, 3) A comprehensive view of business processes, applications, infrastructure and organization, 4) Experienced employees able to handle specialized challenges, and 5) Strong alignment between business and IT goals and processes. The success of M&A projects increasingly depends on effective involvement and support from the IT department.
Casestudy: The Case of bench management
For students and specially of Management, it is very difficult to solve casestudy and that too from different angles. Here is one of the casestudy from the Book "Human Resources Management: Text and Cases
By Rao". There are many points included wich are sayings of Experts too.
Key drivers that influence a CEO’s Software Outsourcing.pdf
In a dynamic environment, new-age digital technologies are challenging the status quo in every sector. How companies react to the changes in the digital landscape could determine whether they remain relevant in the marketplace. Today, the question every CEO has to delve into is “Will I disrupt, or be disrupted?”
Mis 012
The document discusses the evolution of IT management over four eras from the 1960s to present. It describes Cash and McFarlan's strategic grid model which categorizes IT management environments based on dependence on existing vs planned applications. Various generic IS strategies and principles of developing killer apps are outlined. Challenges of digital transformation and leveraging IT for competitive advantage are also summarized.
Mis 999
The document discusses strategic IT management and the evolution of IT over different eras from the 1960s to present. It outlines different IT management environments including strategic, turnaround, factory, and support based on an organization's dependence on existing and planned applications. Different IT strategies and challenges of implementation are also summarized.
CIO Roundtable Conference (Robert Walters VN): The Next-Gen CIO
The CIO role is fast evolving along with modern enterprises and businesses. What are the required skills for the next generation CIO to be successful in the 21st century? What does it mean for Vietnam IT professionals and the industry?
Challenges of IT Outsourcing for CEOs of Small.pdf
The pandemic has altered every facet of the business, and many companies outsource to adapt to the new normal. Many businesses now want to boost their operations and profits using contemporary technology.
Outsourcing has emerged as the new business paradigm, and major companies are scrambling to take advantage of its cost-saving and growth-promoting potential. It takes time and energy to settle into the adaptation phase when a business begins outsourcing for the first time.
Course12 2
This document provides an overview of part 2 of a course on competitive intelligence. It discusses key concepts in competitive intelligence including defining key intelligence topics to guide analysis. It emphasizes the importance of regular communication with users and tailoring reports to different decision-making styles. The document also outlines several analytical models used in competitive intelligence and cautions that reports should focus on meaningful findings and support conclusions with sources.
Digital Transformation with 2 Speed IT & Agile Scrum
Amit Kumar and Amit Anand discuss digital transformation at an enterprise using a 2 speed IT approach. They describe challenges faced including resistance to change and outdated architectures. Their solution was to create an elite development team using agile practices, innovation-ready architecture, and DevOps. This allowed for weekly releases and one-click deployments. It improved conversion rates, reduced time to market, and increased productivity.
Career Conversation Technology Consulting
A presentation was given on technology consulting that covered: understanding technology consulting and the required skillsets; common consulting types and examples; critical success factors for consultants; and how to prepare for a consulting role through resumes and case study interviews. The presentation provided frameworks to structure problem solving and highlighted sample case study questions that assess strategic recommendations, growth strategies, IT assessments, and application rationalization.
10-Step Strategic Account Alignment Process
Learn about the 10-Step Strategic Account Alignment Process:
- See the 10-step account planning and implementation process using real-world examples
- Focus on 3 of the biggest challenges facing strategic account management programs
- Learn the unique approach that Global Partners uses for the account planning and management process
I Can't Make THAT Decision!
The document discusses the importance of organizational health and the role of IT business partnerships. It emphasizes that healthy organizations have minimal politics and confusion, high morale and productivity, and low turnover. For IT organizations to be successful, they must understand business goals, participate in strategic planning, and leverage partnerships to align technology investments with desired business outcomes. Regular engagement with external customers through research and journey mapping is highlighted as a key factor in developing effective IT business partnerships.
Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit 2014 - Trip Report
Building a Lean and Agile I&O – The Engine for your Digital Business
Digitalization is redefining the future of business, challenging I&O leaders to bring fresh new thinking to the IT Infrastructure and Operations space.
Similar to How do I get the most value out of my technology investments? (20)
Webinar for September 2019 - Organisational Design and Strategy
Webinar for September 2019 - Organisational Design and Strategy
Preparing for ERP? 9 Steps to Minimizing Mistakes and Maximizing ROI
Preparing for ERP? 9 Steps to Minimizing Mistakes and Maximizing ROI
IT Governance – The missing compass in a technology changing world
IT Governance – The missing compass in a technology changing world
20150929 Playbook Transformational IT Run IT as a Business
20150929 Playbook Transformational IT Run IT as a Business
Business capability mapping and business architecture
Business capability mapping and business architecture
SNP_Product_Guide_5_Factors_for_a_Successful_Transformation
SNP_Product_Guide_5_Factors_for_a_Successful_Transformation
Key drivers that influence a CEO’s Software Outsourcing.pdf
Key drivers that influence a CEO’s Software Outsourcing.pdf
CIO Roundtable Conference (Robert Walters VN): The Next-Gen CIO
CIO Roundtable Conference (Robert Walters VN): The Next-Gen CIO
Challenges of IT Outsourcing for CEOs of Small.pdf
Challenges of IT Outsourcing for CEOs of Small.pdf
Digital Transformation with 2 Speed IT & Agile Scrum
Digital Transformation with 2 Speed IT & Agile Scrum
Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit 2014 - Trip Report
Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit 2014 - Trip Report
More from Thoughtworks
Design System as a Product
Design System as a Product - Maria Elena Duenias, Esther Butcher
Design systems are a great example where web development and design meet. You can find innumerable resources on the internet, books and conferences on how to build them, and how they are exactly what your organization needs. But, building one requires a lot more than following a recipe. In this talk we are going to discuss how to build a design system as an internal product, and how it evolves to become what the users need.
Designers, Developers & Dogs
Designers, Developers and Dogs: Finding the magic balance between product and tech - Charlotte Vorbeck, ShareNow and Sahil Bajaj
How can an agile delivery team become a successful product team? When does collaboration between product and tech succeed and when not? Why do people in some teams inspire each other while others in the same environment don't speak the same language? In this talk we want to share our learnings and experiences from rebuilding an internal tool for customer support at ShareNow. What could have been just another boring rewrite surprisingly became one of our best experiences in collaboration. We will look at how a joint discovery phase helped us to come up with a shared vision, how a better team setup enabled us to do the necessary work, how focusing on the customer kept us aligned during our journey, and also how we built upon existing collaborative techniques to achieve this new level of cooperation and trust.
Cloud-first for fast innovation
During this presentation, Ward Coessens, ThoughtWorks' Consultant will share best practice insights from the Daimler partnership, helping the automotive group on their cloud innovation journey.
More impact with flexible teams
How to create more business impact with flexible teams - Jan Hegewald, Zalando & Rebekka Beels, Zalando
Usually, Software Engineering teams are organized around a fixed set of components which they develop further and maintain. Such component teams gain a high level of expert knowledge about their services. However, with agile product development, it often is difficult to implement the most important initiatives with such teams. This leads to a situation where the teams do not work on the most relevant business topics but on those for the respective team. At Zalando, we introduced a new model where we shape teams flexibly around business goals to create the highest impact. How we organize these teams and which challenges especially for the software quality need to be addressed, will be explored in this talk.
Culture of Innovation
Amazon’s Culture of Innovation & The Working Backwards session
Working Backwards; leading organisations achieve growth by marrying customer-obsession with a modern technology strategy. Where do you begin? By focusing on the customer.
During this webinar, Amazon will discuss key innovation principles which have been instrumental in their continued success and their Working Backwards approach.
Dual-Track Agile
Dual-Track Agile for Discovery & Development - Adriana Katrandzhieva
The talk will focus on one of the ways teams can ensure continuous delivery and design in their projects. The so-called ‘Dual-track’ model shows the parallel tracks of discovery and development throughout the product design and delivery process. These continually feedback into each other informing new hypothesis that can be tested in order to be proven/disproven. This model is not always easy to implement out of the box and so I will share my own experiences in applying it in practice - what worked, what didn't and how the model can be adjusted to fit different teams and organisational environments.
Developer Experience
This document discusses developer experience (DX) and how to design for it. It begins with introductions of the presenters and defines DX as the experience developers have when using a product. It then discusses understanding developer pain points and personas, designing the developer journey, and using different interfaces like APIs, portals, and CLIs. The document outlines challenges in the design process like getting buy-in and measuring DX metrics. It argues that improving DX benefits business goals like enabling experiments, increasing flexibility, and attracting talent. It concludes that developers are also users and designers, and that DX is important to consider for business reasons.
When we design together
When we design together - Sabrina Mach, Ammara Gafoor and James Emmott
From three distinct perspectives, this talk will contend that design is an activity undertaken by everyone in a software development team. It occurs throughout the process of delivery — not only at the beginning or the end — and it is a powerful instrument for learning about and adapting to the problems our work seeks to solve, which is a shared responsibility. Making the best use of our multidisciplinary expertise in the activity of design requires forms of collaboration that are too often disrupted by the role-based silos that keep us separated and weaken the valuable contribution our diverse approaches could make to our collective efforts. If you care about accelerating time to market, improving customer experience, or building happy and productive teams, you will want to know why and how it matters that we believe ‘design is in everything that we do’.
Hardware is hard(er)
Hardware is hard(er): designing for distributed user experiences in IoT - Claire Rowland, www.clairerowland.com
Designing connected devices and hardware-enabled services is significantly more complex than pure software. There are more devices on which code can run, connectivity and data sharing patterns to consider, and often multiple and varied touchpoints for users to interact with. Pulling this all together into a coherent experience involves strong collaboration between design and engineering, and a systems thinking approach to UX. In this talk, we’ll introduce what designers need to know about the tech, what engineers need to know about UX for IoT, and how to facilitate the whole-collaboration needed to create great products.
www.clairerowland.com
Customer-centric innovation enabled by cloud
Working Backwards - Leading organisations achieve growth by marrying customer-obsession with a modern technology strategy. In this upcoming webinar, we’ve partnered with AWS to bring you exclusive insights from one of the world’s most innovative companies, Amazon.
Amazon's Culture of Innovation
The document discusses Amazon's culture of innovation. It emphasizes starting with the customer and working backwards to develop solutions. Amazon focuses on small, autonomous teams that are nimble and own their work. The company's leadership principles guide decision-making and encourage inventiveness, customer obsession, high standards, and long-term thinking to solve customer problems.
When in doubt, go live
The document discusses techniques for establishing shorter feedback loops between developing features and measuring user behavior, including:
1) Shadow traffic which runs new and old features simultaneously to get early feedback without users noticing a difference.
2) Visual reports which assess the quality of a feature through a report (e.g. HTML page) of key metrics.
3) A/B testing which statistically compares user behavior between a control and test group after exposing each to a different variant of a feature. Sample size considerations and statistical significance are discussed.
Don't cross the Rubicon
As a tech leader at ThoughtWorks, a large part of my job involves recommending practices to our clients so they can build and deliver good quality software faster. In doing so repeatedly for many clients I have created a toolkit that contains practical advice from being on the ground. This is what we do, we know it works. When Julius Caesar entered Rome with his army by crossing the river Rubicon, he did something that couldn’t be undone ever again. In your journey as a leader, avoid mistakes that are difficult to correct later. Here are a set of practices that you want to adopt as soon as possible.
Error handling
Handling error conditions is a core part of the software we write. However, we often treat it as a second class citizen, obscuring our intent through abuse of null values and exceptions that make our code hard to understand and maintain. In the functional programming community, it is common to use datatypes such as Option, Either or Validated to make our intentions explicit when dealing with errors. We can leverage the compiler to verify that we are handling them instead of hoping for the best at runtime. This results in code that is clearer, without hidden path flows. We’ll show how we have been doing this in Kotlin, with the help of the Arrow library.
Your test coverage is a lie!
Mutation testing in software development surfaced in academia during the 70's and has recently seen a resurgence in popularity as a legitimate tool in your testing arsenal. In this session we review the conventional testing pyramid, modern approaches to testing software and look at how mutation testing can help fill in those blind spots.
Docker container security
The document discusses security challenges and best practices for Docker containers. It outlines risks at different stages of the container lifecycle from image development to deployment. Key risks include lack of isolation, complex ecosystems, and known vulnerabilities. The document recommends practices like using linting and scanning during development, restricting resources and access controls at deployment, and signing images from trusted sources to improve container security.
Redefining the unit
Mainframes handle 30 billion business transactions each day and 87% of all credit card transactions*, they are not traditionally associated with flexible, fail-fast development approaches. Can we bring the practices of agile, CI/CD and fully automated deployments to applications running on a mainframe? During our talk, we'll tell you a story about test automation; redefining the smallest testable unit of a program. And we'll discuss our learnings from introducing continuous integration and agile practices to the world of insurance and mainframes.
*9 Mainframe statistics that may surprise you
Technology Radar Webinar UK - Vol. 22
ThoughtWorks' Lucy Kurian, James Lewis & Kief Morris discuss tech trends in our latest Technology Radar, covering techniques, platforms, tools, languages and frameworks.
A Tribute to Turing
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise boosts blood flow, releases endorphins, and promotes changes in the brain which help regulate emotions and stress levels.
Rsa maths worked out
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
More from Thoughtworks (20)
Recently uploaded
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex Proofs
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
Elizabeth Buie - Older adults: Are we really designing for our future selves?
Elizabeth Buie - Older adults: Are we really designing for our future selves?
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdf
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Artificial Intelligence for XMLDevelopment
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
20240607 QFM018 Elixir Reading List May 2024
Everything I found interesting about the Elixir programming ecosystem in May 2024
Unlock the Future of Search with MongoDB Atlas_ Vector Search Unleashed.pdf
Discover how MongoDB Atlas and vector search technology can revolutionize your application's search capabilities. This comprehensive presentation covers:
* What is Vector Search?
* Importance and benefits of vector search
* Practical use cases across various industries
* Step-by-step implementation guide
* Live demos with code snippets
* Enhancing LLM capabilities with vector search
* Best practices and optimization strategies
Perfect for developers, AI enthusiasts, and tech leaders. Learn how to leverage MongoDB Atlas to deliver highly relevant, context-aware search results, transforming your data retrieval process. Stay ahead in tech innovation and maximize the potential of your applications.
#MongoDB #VectorSearch #AI #SemanticSearch #TechInnovation #DataScience #LLM #MachineLearning #SearchTechnology
20240605 QFM017 Machine Intelligence Reading List May 2024
Everything I found interesting about machines behaving intelligently during May 2024
Goodbye Windows 11: Make Way for Nitrux Linux 3.5.0!
As the digital landscape continually evolves, operating systems play a critical role in shaping user experiences and productivity. The launch of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 marks a significant milestone, offering a robust alternative to traditional systems such as Windows 11. This article delves into the essence of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, exploring its unique features, advantages, and how it stands as a compelling choice for both casual users and tech enthusiasts.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 days
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
Video Streaming: Then, Now, and in the Future
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
GridMate - End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid...
End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid regressions. In this session, we share our journey building an E2E testing pipeline for GridMate components (LWC and Aura) using Cypress, JSForce, FakerJS…
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1
This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024
Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
Join us as we explore breakthrough innovations enabled by interconnected data and AI. Discover firsthand how organizations use relationships in data to uncover contextual insights and solve our most pressing challenges – from optimizing supply chains, detecting fraud, and improving customer experiences to accelerating drug discoveries.
みなさんこんにちはこれ何文字まで入るの？40文字以下不可とか本当に意味わからないけどこれ限界文字数書いてないからマジでやばい文字数いけるんじゃないの？えこ...
ここ3000字までしか入らないけどタイトルの方がたくさん文字入ると思います。
National Security Agency - NSA mobile device best practices
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
FIDO Alliance Osaka Seminar: The WebAuthn API and Discoverable Credentials.pdf
FIDO Alliance Osaka Seminar
Recently uploaded (20)
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex Proofs
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex Proofs
Elizabeth Buie - Older adults: Are we really designing for our future selves?
Elizabeth Buie - Older adults: Are we really designing for our future selves?
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdf
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdf
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...
Unlock the Future of Search with MongoDB Atlas_ Vector Search Unleashed.pdf
Unlock the Future of Search with MongoDB Atlas_ Vector Search Unleashed.pdf
20240605 QFM017 Machine Intelligence Reading List May 2024
20240605 QFM017 Machine Intelligence Reading List May 2024
Goodbye Windows 11: Make Way for Nitrux Linux 3.5.0!
Goodbye Windows 11: Make Way for Nitrux Linux 3.5.0!
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 days
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 days
GridMate - End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid...
GridMate - End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid...
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024
みなさんこんにちはこれ何文字まで入るの？40文字以下不可とか本当に意味わからないけどこれ限界文字数書いてないからマジでやばい文字数いけるんじゃないの？えこ...
みなさんこんにちはこれ何文字まで入るの？40文字以下不可とか本当に意味わからないけどこれ限界文字数書いてないからマジでやばい文字数いけるんじゃないの？えこ...
National Security Agency - NSA mobile device best practices
National Security Agency - NSA mobile device best practices
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...
FIDO Alliance Osaka Seminar: The WebAuthn API and Discoverable Credentials.pdf
FIDO Alliance Osaka Seminar: The WebAuthn API and Discoverable Credentials.pdf
How do I get the most value out of my technology investments?
- 1. How do I get the most value out of my technology investments?
- 2. Anupam Kundu / Principal Manu Tandon / Principal ThoughtWorks NY Office
- 3. - IBM, CEO Study 2012 Technology is the number #1 concern of CEOs worldwide
- 4. 66% of projects fail or are ‘marginal’ 61% of features delivered 2/3 IT projects are challenged Over budget by 189% Over schedule by 220%
- 5. We will define and understand the usage of: • Strategic IT vs. Utility IT • Time to Market • Value vs. Waste • Roadmap planning
- 7. Strategy is about understanding what you do, looking out over the long-term future to determine what you want to become, and—most importantly—focusing on how you plan to get there. - C. Davis Fogg, Strategist Strategic vs. Utility IT
- 10. utility
- 11. Criticality Cost Retire Continue Maintain As-is Improve Cost- Effectiveness
- 13. The main obstacles to improved business responsiveness are slow decision-making, conflicting departmental goals and priorities, risk-averse cultures and silo-based information. - The Economist Intelligence Unit Time To Market
- 14. IT like an oil tanker
- 15. IT like a speedboat
- 16. Concept to cash case study
- 17. value vs waste
- 18. passing the buck
- 19. Invisible waste
- 20. Extra Features Defects Partially Done Work Re-learning Hand offs Delays Task Switching Specialized Silos
- 21. Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.� - J P Morgan
- 22. IT whack-a-mole
- 24. 2013 Q1 2013 Q2 2013 Q3 2013 Q4 For whom: What: Why: Where: For: Platform benefits: For whom: What: Why: Where: For: Platform benefits: For whom: What: Why: Where: For: Platform benefits: For whom: What: Why: Where: For: Platform benefits: Outline dates Release name Stakeholders Release goal Why it’s important Systems affected Business benefits System benefits
- 25. keep your eye on the ball
- 26. McKinsey Quarterly Think • How will IT change the basis of competition in our industry? • What will it take to exceed our customers’ expectations in a digital world? • Do our business plans reflect the full potential of technology to improve our performance? • Is our portfolio of technology investments aligned with opportunities and threats? •How will IT improve our operational and strategic agility? •Do we have the capabilities required to deliver value from IT?
- 27. We can’t do this— We’re in finance!� -You, maybe
- 29. 30 updates a day
- 30. Anupam Kundu / Principal Manu Tandon / Principal ThoughtWorks NY Office ak@thoughtworks.com Questions?