Tech Radar - Build your own

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1. b u i l d y o u r o w n TECH RADAR Improving the process and the outputs.
2. AGENDA ▫︎The Tech Radar ▫︎A Personal Tech Radar ▫︎An Enterprise Tech Radar ▫︎The ThoughtWorks Tech Radar ▫︎Building your own! ▫︎Rackspace Reach Radar !2
3. THE TECH RADAR Concepts & types !3
4. !4 “A living document to assess the risks and rewards of existing and nascent technologies”
5. WHY BUILD ONE? ▫︎It helps guiding your career decisions. ▫︎It helps restoring the sanity to purchase decisions. ▫︎It steers the technology direction. ▫︎It’s cool. !5
6. A PERSONAL TECH RADAR Avoiding the technology bubble. !6
7. THE BUBBLE !7
8. SO IT HELPS YOU TO… Understand what’s happening outside of the bubble. Keep you in sync with other nascent technologies. Guide your decisions when investing in other technologies. !8
9. AN ENTERPRISE TECH RADAR And its affairs !9
10. CHALLENGE & INNOVATION There’s a lot of risk when adopting new technologies. Having a company radar help balancing this risks and makes the continuous innovation easier. !10
11. INNOVATION ADOPTION LIFECYCLE !11
12. !12 “For any given technology, your organisation has an ideal location on the innovation curve, balancing risk versus reward”
13. CONTINUOUS INNOVATION !13 NEW THINGS EXISTING THINGS
14. !14 “Technology never sits still; you must (re-)evaluate it constantly or risk drastically falling behind your competitors”
15. COMMUNICATION & BUSINESS ALIGNMENT Unified Message from the Technical to the Interested-but- non-technical !15
16. A COMMUNICATION TOOL !16 “In most organisations, there is no feedback loop from the people who use technology to the people who choose it.”
17. TECHNOLOGY & BUSINESS ALIGNMENT !17 “A tech radar allows more intelligent decision making and career planning”
18. THOUGHTWORKS TECH RADAR Scope & structure !18
19. THE STRUCTURE !19 TOOLS TECHNIQUES PLATFORMS LANGUAGES & FRAMEWORKS
20. SCOPE !20 It is “about things you are looking towards, not recriminations about the past”.
21. BUILDING YOUR OWN Scope & structure !21
22. DEFINING THE THINGS (BLIPS) !22 What’re the things you want to capture? ! Categorise them and capture the state TOOLS TECHNIQUES PLATFORMS LANGUAGES & FRAMEWORKS
23. DEFINING THE CYCLE (RINGS) !23 How fast can you assess the things? ! ! ! The lesser the cycles the greater the risk in adoption. HOLD ADOPT
24. DEFINING RE-EVALUATION !24 NEW THINGS ASSESSMENT EXISTING THINGS
25. EXECUTION GUIDE !25 ▫︎ Have a white board with your structure. ▫︎ Put all the blips (cards) separated by the categories. ▫︎ Have some one facilitate the reading, discussion and placement of them in the rings. ▫︎ Have someone else writing down the motivations for the placement. ▫︎ Review and re-evaluate.
26. OUTPUT AND DIGITAL VERSION !26 ! The output will be a list of things (blips) separated in categories (quadrants) distributed in the adoption lifecycle (rings). ! You can use tools to plot this radar in a digital version github.com/bdargan/techradar
27. RACKSPACE REACH TECH RADAR Our experience building our own radar !27
28. THE PROCESS !28 ! Whiteboard + Post-its + Discussion = Radar
29. THE PITFALLS !29 ▫︎Long passionate discussions ▫︎Things we couldn’t change or assess ▫︎Don’t like vs. not worth assessing ▫︎The “adopt all” symptom ▫︎The hold vs. avoid
30. THE OUTCOME !30 ▫︎Knowledge sharing ▫︎People in sync with the things ▫︎Snapshot of the present ▫︎Better visibility of the future
31. For questions or suggestions: Bruno Trecenti & Alexandre Nunes ! For more information, check-out Neal Ford blog-post: http://bit.ly/1hmfwNS THANK YOU