Pivotal Paris 2019: DevOps & Cloud-Native for Enterprise Architects Not Dead Yet

1. DevOps & Cloud-Native for
Enterprise Architects
Not Dead Yet
July, 2019
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First, what is
“enterprise architecture”?

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Source: Enterprise Architecture as Strategy, Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, David Robertson, 2006.

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5. 5Source: “The New CIO: Leading IT the Mark Schwartz Way,” DOES London, 2018.
The CIO is the enterprise architect and
arbitrates the quality of the IT systems in
the sense that they promote agility in the
future. The systems could be filled with
technical debt but, at any given
moment, the sum of all the IT systems
is an asset and has value in what it
enables the company to do in the
future. The value is not just in the
architecture but also in the people
and the processes. It's an intangible
asset that determines the company's
future revenues and costs and the CIO
is responsible for ensuring the
performance of that asset in the future.
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The
problem

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If I’m doing 8 or 15 releases a week,
how am I going to get through all those
CABs?”
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11. 11Sources: "Building a Brand Around a Technology and Cultural Transformation," Matt Curry, Sep. 2016.

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Leading
change

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Mobile
payments
Mortgage
application
Mortgage
approval
Bill pay Transfers
🤓 🤓
Private or public IaaS
"👔$Culture, process, methodology, governance, compensation, etc.
IT Leadership, EAs,
etc.
Platform Engineers
Product teams
Corporate strategy, revenue goals, mission, etc.
💼🤑🏭🏢 🏛
🌥 ☁
“The Business”

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15. Beyond 10 ways to make coffee: gardening “culture”
● Create a culture of innovation, risk taking,
and focusing on people (“users”)
● Give product teams autonomy, trust, and
voice
● Establish trust by doing what you say,
delegating, and celebrating failurelearning.
● Feedback loop: surveys (ENPS), silence,
churn, results.
● Giving feedback: OKRs, praising process &
stories, not just schedule
15More: "Creating a DevOps culture, whatever that means".

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Gardening teams

17. Closer to a product organization…
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Mobile
payments
Mortgage
application
Mortgage
approval
Bill pay Transfers

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Gardening
microservices
(and the before times)

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22. 22Source: @AreasAbandoned.
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Gardening
platform & Tools

24. 24Source: Presentation at SpringOne Platform, Sep 2018.
[I]f you say to your team
that 'when you build it
you also run it,’ you
cannot do that with a
consolidated environment.
You cannot say to a team
'you own that stuff, and
by the way somebody else
can also break it.'"
Vincent Oostindië, Rabobank
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25. Choose, govern, and garden the right platform
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Source: CF Summit Europe 2018, Vincent Oostindië, Rabobank.

26. Enterprise architecture as code
26Sources: Enterprise Architecture as Strategy, Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, David Robertson, 2006; Ranji Narine at SpringOne Platform 2017.

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The left overs:
• The Platform as a Product team
• Gardening technical decisions &
services
• Internal marketing & training

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