A talk by Stewart Gleadow and Jonny LeRoy at Thoughtworks Live in Sydney and Melbourne in May 2013. It's a high level look at how you can approach mobile development and strategies to evolve for a future of many APIs and many front end clients.

1. EVOLVING FOR MULTIPLE SCREENS
Stewart Gleadow
Jonny LeRoy

2. the future?
or a Segway
for your face

3. BUSINESS
CUSTOMERS

4. BUSINESS
CUSTOMERS

5. NATURAL
RESPONSE
IS TO HAVE A
P U R E L Y
SHORT-TERM
STRATEGY
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bichologo_errante/7881219424/

6. ECOSYSTEM
EVOLUTION
EMPATHY

7. http://www.flickr.com/photos/travis_simon/4009899340/

8. FOLLOW THE MONEY

9. LONG-TERM STRATEGIES

10. BECOME AN ECOSYSTEM PLAYER
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eden_Project_geodesic_domes_panorama.jpg

11. BUSINESS
CUSTOMERS

12. What the
users see
The Rest

13. SEPARATE
PRESENTATION
AND LOGIC
SMALL
STITCH-ABLE
SERVICES

14. CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS NEED TO EVOLVE
TO DEAL WITH MULTIPLE SCREENS
FROM MANY SERVICES

15. C H O O S E
TOOLS THAT
PLAY WELL
WITH OTHERS
http://www.flickr.com/photos/curtislife/260056423/

16. FAVOUR OPEN TECHNOLOGIES
with a healthy dose of short-term pragmatism

17. CULTURE OF EVOLUTION
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/63009926/

18. EMBED DESIGN INTO
YOUR PROCESS AND TEAMS

19. MEASURE
LEARN AND
ADAPT

20. SHORT-TERM STRATEGIES

21. GET THE NUTS
& BOLTS RIGHT

22. SECURITY:
your perimeter is POROUS
like it or not YOU HAVE AN API
security is a TRADE-OFF - trade with EYES OPEN
security is NOT AN APPLIANCE

23. GOOD TESTING
AND AUTOMATION
ALLOW YOU TO
MOVE QUICKLY
AND EVOLVE

24. Android
iOS
Web
BlackBerry
Windows
Phone

25. experience
platforms

26. experience
platforms

27. Mobile
SHARE
App
LOGIC
KEEP THE APP
S I M P L E

28. WHAT APPROACH
SHOULD YOU TAKE FOR
A NEW PRODUCT?

31. WHAT APPROACH
S H OU L D YOU TAKE FO R
AN EXISTING PRODUCT?

32. CASE STUDY:
A MAJOR
US AIRLINE

33. ?
Visual
Re-design

34. Frequent, smaller releases
X
X
Visual
Re-design

35. http://calatrava.github.com

36. Frequent, smaller releases
X
X
Visual
Re-design

37. KEEP THE APP SIMPLE
SHARE LOGIC

38. One team per
channel
One team per
product / service

39. EVOLVE YOUR ORGANISATION

40. DISCOVER
Optimised for
learning, adapting
and speed
Enterprise
Start-up
Optimised for predictability, quality and scale
SCALE

41. SCOPE
TIME

42. SCOPE
Important stuff
is visible
TIME

43. SCOPE
TIME

44. MEASURE SOMETHING ELSE
CYCLE TIME
VALUE
LEARNING
TEAM
INVESTMENT
DISCOVERY

45. YOU CAN
HAVE MORE
THAN JUST A
SHORT-TERM
STRATEGY
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bichologo_errante/7881219424/

46. LONG-TERM:
ECOSYSTEM
play nicely,
internally & externally
EVOLUTION
prepare your organisation &
architecture for change
EMPATHY
understand the context of
your users & teams

47. SHORT-TERM:
FOLLOW THE MONEY
BUILD APPS, BUT PREPARE
FOR A POST-APP WORLD
GET THE BASICS RIGHT

48. THANK YOU.
@StewGleadow
http://www.stewgleadow.com/
@jahnnie
http://makesthingsbetter.com/