Build

Overview

People who are part of the build IT Group are typically developers, designers, architects and DBAs. They share common values and culture as they strive to design, develop and ship new applications and features.

Values

Innovate and deliver cool new solutions as fast as possible, help the business compete with the best solutions to meet their needs.

Culture

Collaborative and creative. Early adopters of new technology.

Personas / job titles

Clearly these titles: Contributors: Developer, Software Engineer, Architect, DBA, Managers: Development Manager, Lead, Executives: VP of Apps, Director of Applications, But, they might also include titles such as DevOps Lead, DevOps Engineer, and DevTest

Challenges

Contributing to multiple projects, workstreams and systems. Supporting production and new development. Burdensome processes get in the way of delivering value.

Ideal world

Able to focus on innovation and solving business problems. Responsive to change and not burdened by bureaucratic processes. They care about their software and the business value they deliver.

VP of Applications Critical challenges

There are several critical challenges that application development leaders are facing.

  1. Cycle time - how to improve velocity
  2. How deliver secure Applications
  3. How to navigate hybrid cloud and not lock in.

Deliver Secure Applications
Overview Shipping applications at high speed must not introduce new security risks or vulnerabilities. Challenge: Delivering secure apps (staying out of headlines) and meeting compliance requirements What challenges do I (VP Apps) face? Security slows down the velocity of the SDLC and blocks application delivery. The traditional incumbent solutions are cumbersome, require security to run them and interpret the results. We wait for the resource-constrained security team to run the scans and some of the scans may take days (or not complete at all).
Improve Cycle Time
Faster time to market and shorter cycle times are a major challenge that is faced by development teams in every industry.
Modernize applications
Overview Embrace kubernetes and cloud native architectures to accelerate application delivery and reduce cycle time. Challenge: Modernize my application architecture What challenges do I (VP Apps) face? Maintenance and integration costs, predominantly human resources costs. A large percentage of the overall IT budget goes to support teams of engineers needed to integrate and maintain a complex toolchain. An enterprise company with 1K developers needs 40 engineers just to maintain the DevOps toolchain instead of allocating these resources towards delivering business value.
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