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1. Idea to Money
By Mohit Kanwar

2. Needs drive businesses

3. Business drives technology

4. Idea
Refinement
Epics and
Stories
creation
Prototype
Frontend
design
Middleware
design
Backend
services
Database
design
Integrations Testing Deployment
Post
Deployment
Different actions required to convert ideas to
money
Design
Thinking
Maintenance

5. Idea
Refinement
Epics and
Stories
creation
Prototype
Frontend
design
Middleware
design
Backend
services
Database
design
Integrations Testing Deployment
Post
Deployment
Different actions required to convert ideas to
money
Design
Thinking
Maintenance
Business Analyst
Someone who understands
the business. Why are we
developing and what are
we developing.
Owns the product.
Sometimes also called as
Product Owner

6. Idea
Refinement
Epics and
Stories
creation
Prototype
Frontend
design
Middleware
design
Backend
services
Database
design
Integrations Testing Deployment
Post
Deployment
Different actions required to convert ideas to
money
Design
Thinking
Maintenance
UX Designer
Someone who has a skill to make things and
processes beautiful.
(s)he decides and improves the user’s
experience by including (but not limited to)
• Colour schemes
• Number of steps required to achieve an action
• Needs to take care of Accessibility/Age groups/
geographical diversity

7. Idea
Refinement
Epics and
Stories
creation
Prototype
Frontend
design
Middleware
design
Backend
services
Database
design
Integrations Testing Deployment
Post
Deployment
Different actions required to convert ideas to
money
Design
Thinking
Maintenance
Frontend Engineer
Converts the user stories and UX to user facing
code
• Web/Mobile applications
• Well versed with alignment and colour schemes
• Creates re-usable programmable components
• Integrates with middleware/backend systems

8. Idea
Refinement
Epics and
Stories
creation
Prototype
Frontend
design
Middleware
design
Backend
services
Database
design
Integrations Testing Deployment
Post
Deployment
Different actions required to convert ideas to
money
Design
Thinking
Maintenance
Middleware Engineer
Develops services to be consumed by Frontend
engineers
• Understand the API standards and structures
• Well versed with high performance, scalable
technologies and architectures
• Creates re-usable programmable components
• Integrates with frontend/backend systems

9. Idea
Refinement
Epics and
Stories
creation
Prototype
Frontend
design
Middleware
design
Backend
services
Database
design
Integrations Testing Deployment
Post
Deployment
Different actions required to convert ideas to
money
Design
Thinking
Maintenance
Services Engineer
Microservices/Applications dedicated to solving
specific problems
• Understands domain
• Understands Technologies
• Able to solve given problems using code

10. Idea
Refinement
Epics and
Stories
creation
Prototype
Frontend
design
Middleware
design
Backend
services
Database
design
Integrations Testing Deployment
Post
Deployment
Different actions required to convert ideas to
money
Design
Thinking
Maintenance
Data Engineer
Focused on storing, managing and retrieving
data in an organized manner
• Different SQL and NoSQL dbs
• Indexing of frequently searched data
• Query optimization
• Data relations

11. Idea
Refinement
Epics and
Stories
creation
Prototype
Frontend
design
Middleware
design
Backend
services
Database
design
Integrations Testing Deployment
Post
Deployment
Different actions required to convert ideas to
money
Design
Thinking
Maintenance
Integration Engineer
Connects different systems which could be
running in different
technologies/zones/standards while managing
operations and performance
• Understands Enterprise integration patterns
• Understands different aspects of API invocations
• Help in managing network and other costs

12. Idea
Refinement
Epics and
Stories
creation
Prototype
Frontend
design
Middleware
design
Backend
services
Database
design
Integrations Testing Deployment
Post
Deployment
Different actions required to convert ideas to
money
Design
Thinking
Maintenance
Test Engineer
Makes sure that the software does what it is
supposed to do
• Identifies problems with the code
• Makes sure the code is stable
• May write code to test code
• Understands business
• Understands common problems with the codet

13. Idea
Refinement
Epics and
Stories
creation
Prototype
Frontend
design
Middleware
design
Backend
services
Database
design
Integrations Testing Deployment
Post
Deployment
Different actions required to convert ideas to
money
Design
Thinking
Maintenance
Operations Engineer
Makes sure that the developed and tested
software is available with the users to use it
• Software movement
• Versioning
• Deployment and release
• Monitoring Establishment

14. Idea
Refinement
Epics and
Stories
creation
Prototype
Frontend
design
Middleware
design
Backend
services
Database
design
Integrations Testing Deployment
Post
Deployment
Different actions required to convert ideas to
money
Design
Thinking
Maintenance
Operations Engineer
Makes sure that the developed and tested
software is available with the users to use it
• Software movement
• Versioning
• Deployment and release
• Monitoring Establishment
Agile /Scrum

15. Idea
Refinement
Epics and
Stories
creation
Prototype
Frontend
design
Middleware
design
Backend
services
Database
design
Integrations Testing Deployment
Post
Deployment
Different actions required to convert ideas to
money
Design
Thinking
Maintenance
Governance
Makes sure that the flow of work is established,
and nothing is blocked.
Makes sure that software delivery is on time
Project Manager / Scrum Master

16. Idea
Refinement
Epics and
Stories
creation
Prototype
Frontend
design
Middleware
design
Backend
services
Database
design
Integrations Testing Deployment
Post
Deployment
Different roles require different Aptitudes and
Attitudes
Design
Thinking
Maintenance
Project Manager / Scrum Master

17. Architectures

18. It’s all about
1. Data Storage
2. Data Visualization
3. Data Transportation & Modification

19. MVC
Model
View
Controller

20. A typical Architecture
Mobile
Firewall
Fraud Detection and Prevention
Web
Webserver
Web
Webserver
API Gateway
Middleware
App server
Enterprise Service Bus / Service Gateway
Service
App server
Service
App server
Service
App server
Database
App server
MQ
App server