Strategically Evolve Your Role as an IT Pro

Christian Buckley
Managing Director, Americas
www.buckleyplanet.com
@buckleyplanet
cbuck@gtconsult.com

By 2016
45%
of IT budgets will
be devoted to IT
cloud initiatives
with
15%
being devoted to
public cloud.
and yet…
A vast
majority
of the global 2,000
will still have
more than
70%
of their IT
on-premises.

In 2013, Microsoft agreed with Gartner,
acknowledging that:
Over the next 5 to 7 years
35%
of on-prem SharePoint
customers stated that
they would never move
to the cloud
50%
would adopt a hybrid
strategy
15%
would become pure
cloud customers,
shutting down all on-
prem infrastructure

In 2014, some Microsoft leaders amended those
predictions, stating that:
Over the next 5 to 7 years
20%
of on-prem SharePoint
customers stated that
they would never move
to the cloud
70%
would adopt a hybrid
strategy
10%
would become pure
cloud customers,
shutting down all on-
prem infrastructure

According to Seth Patton, Sr. Director of Product
Management for the SharePoint team:
“80 percent of Fortune 500 companies still use SharePoint on-
premises, with 38 percent of the entire SharePoint client base
using the online version through Office 365”
CMSWire, http://bit.ly/1EQ3AAM 5/4/2015

Thank you!
www.buckleyplanet.com
@buckleyplanet
cbuck@gtconsult.com

• Provisioning new environments
• Troubleshooting
• Patching and updates
• Performance tuning
• Security and compliance monitoring
• Backup and recovery

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1. What is the role of the IT Pro?
2. Where do IT Pro and Developer paths cross?
3. How important is the IT Pro to SharePoint deployment success?
4. Is the IT Pro role changing as SharePoint moves to the cloud?
5. What is the current relationship between Microsoft and IT Pros?
6. How do changes to the IT Pro relationship impact the partner and
customer ecosystem?
7. For those looking to join the IT Pro ranks, what do they need to know?

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@susanlennon
Is the role of IT Pro changing?

@sharepointninja

@sympmarc

@eChefJosef

@paulculmsee
How are IT Pros reacting?

@thebourbonbull

@ericoverfield

@NickKellett
Does the role go away?

@RussECM

@CollabAdam

@TheCloudMouth

@paulculmsee

@cmcnulty2000

@PatEspoIM
What is the future of the role?

@tgatte

@TheCloudMouth

@cmcnulty2000

According to Nick Kellet, SharePoint MVP and CTO at StoneShare, there are
four major "virtues" the IT Pro can assist the business with:
1. Discipline: the effort required to understand how the technology works, what its potential is and what
limitations it has. It also describes the effort needed to adhere to the governance guidelines, any
development standards that are in place, and industry and community best practices.
2. Vision: provides a road map for IT and End Users to understand where they are heading collectively.
Without a shared vision development is inherently tactical and aimless.
3. Communication: without it, IT Pros and end users have no realistic chance to pull in the same direction,
even if they are disciplined and share the same vision.
4. Leadership: helping end users understand how the development process works, what the software life
cycle stages are, how to gather and communicate business requirements to each other and to IT.

@TheCloudMouth
How do you stay relevant?

@tgatte

@NickKellett

@ericoverfield
Recommendations?

Advice from Robert Toro, Portals & Collaboration practice director for Slalom
Consulting in Chicago, on how to prepare for the IT Pro:
1. Focus on learning the cloud platform vendors and offerings – this includes cost models
and SLAs
2. Know the incumbent and challenger platforms in your vertical – pay attention to where
the innovation is occurring and be able to recommend new technologies and platforms
when the cost/benefit threshold is reached.
3. Learn Identity Management models and have a working knowledge of IdM
Authentication protocol
4. Be a thought leader when it comes to the intersection of the consumerization of IT and
enterprise technology – organizations need a ton of help in empowering a workforce
whose technology wants and desires cannot be addressed by the IT status quo.

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http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/data-center/how-will-cloud-computing-change-the-it-
pros-job-in-2011-and-beyond/
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https://storify.com/buckleyplanet/the-future-of-the-sharepoint-it-pro-role
 https://technet.microsoft.com/en-
us/lander/invest_in_your_it_skills.aspx
 http://blogs.office.com/
 https://www.yammer.com/itpronetwork/

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