The document discusses transforming monolithic applications into microservice architectures. It outlines five steps for successful transformation: 1) Prepare the organization for agile work, 2) Define a better future together through alignment, 3) Start small and focus on the main user flows, 4) Focus on outcomes and iterative improvement, 5) Build high quality applications through developer best practices. The transformation results in not only modernized applications but also changed ways of working.

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Transformation: Not Only The App
But Also The Way We Work
Agile Leadership
Fani Bahar - VMware Pivotal Labs
Martin Wolf - DATEV
September 2020

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Fani Bahar
Senior Product Manager
Martin Wolf
Product Owner

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Why we need transformation?
Monolithic applications put your business at Risk!
Users
Features
Complexity &
severity of
errors

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Existing DUo
What does transformation mean?
Split the monolith while it’s running
Cut off one of the main use cases
Convert into microservice architecture
Connect to the existing system and make it run
New services

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What did we achieve?
Our Expectation: Additional Results:
First steps in application
transformation
Learn about new Plattform
Connect new and existing app parts
Starting a new way of working
Planning
Focusing
Ask & understanding the ‘WHY’
Start lean and small

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WE NEED TO
TRANSFORM TOO

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#1 Prepare your organization to fit in new Agile
way of work

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Why we need promotional organizations and processes and how to do it?
Architectures shapes organizations
Start small
Scale slow
Split sensible
Grow
and Split
Responsibility Autonomy Efficient
Change Agent - who would guide the change process
clear - strict - focused - kind

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#2 Define your better future together

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Why we need alignment and how to do it?
Alignment is an important step on transformation journey
Vision = WHAT + WHY
Do the work! <Buzzwords> is not magic pill
Strategy = HOW

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#3 Start small and focus on happy path

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Prioritize your use case to get going
Starting is the hardest part
Alignment on the Application Journey
Agreed on where to start

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#4 Focus on outcomes and improve it iteratively

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Understand your user and solve their problem
How impactful not how many features?
I want to get
notification
when upload
failed
New Team
Notification
Management
10K
Notification
Invest on your user
Problem
Iterative improvement Outcomes

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#5 Build high quality app

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BUILDING
HIGH QUALITY
APP
We want to deliver the best product for user
Appreciate Developer’s practices
Test driven development
Continuous refactoring
Pairing
gherkin user stories as
starting point

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#1 Prepare your organization to fit in new Agile way of work
#2 Define your better future together
#3 Start small and focus on happy path
#4 Focus on outcomes and improve it iteratively
#5 Build high quality app
Successful Transformation: Not Only The
App But Also The Way We Work

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