The Role of the Architect in an Ever Changing World The planning horizon is coming closer and closer, from decades, to years and to months. How do you act when you need to plan for the essentially ‘unplannable’. Speakers: Joakim Lindbom & Greger Wikstrand Chief Technology Officers Connect with Joakim Lindbom on Expert Connect (https://www.capgemini.com/experts/legacy-modernisation/joakim-lindbom)

1. NO ARCHITECTURE
The art of zero boundaries when
planning for the the unplannable
2015-15-05
Joakim Lindbom
Chief Technology Officer

2. NO
wait
NO
patience
NO
step-by-step
NO
delay
NO
data flood
The need for speed CHANGES
everything !
NO
doubt

3. Towards #ZeroDay
Now goes for attacks, but will expand

4. But who’s setting the pace?
The slowest component??!?

5. So pace layering it is, then

6. Continuous Delivery,
anyone?

7. #NoRequirements

8. Requirements?
If I had asked people what they wanted,
they would have said faster horses.
- Henry Ford

9. NO Requirements

10. Open (for)
Innovation

11. Who’s solving your problems?

12. Who’s solving your problems?

13. Innovation portals

14. Open Data

15. Open Data
Tågtavlan
Tåg.info
Traffikverkets basdata

16. Open Data
Tågtavlan
Tåg.info
Traffikverkets basdata

17. Call for a
New Mindset

18. 5 year (release) plan ?
No more!

19. Dual-speed / Bi-modal IT
(or Quarto-modal…)
- Decouple market facing IT from backend IT timewise
- Plan for the very different levels of velocity
Requirements synchronisation?
Release & rollout synchronisation?
The problem lies in synchronisation of lifecycles
But don’t make you Legacy systems dull!

20. Platform thinking
- Use platforms – let someone else integrate & innovate
- Create platforms – to allow for someone else to
innovate
- Enable future solutions without knowing what will be
requested

21. Autonomous services
Create agnostic & autonomous services
Should act as Lego bricks
Lego didn’t ask the kids what model
they’d build!

22. Don’t allow services to know anything
(but the APIs)
- Separate components
- Separate lifecycles
Loose coupling paw rihk-titt
Autonomous services

23. Go from
Deducted planning
to
Allowing opportunism
Changed mindset

24. OpenAPI & Open Data Lakes
- Don’t ask for requirements!
- Provide what could be needed
- Create Integrations & BI with a NoRequirements thought
- Darwinistic API Economy
- Survival of the fittest API

25. Massively distributed databases ≠ RDBMS
Dynamic scaling, incl. geo scaling
PaaS – who wants to deal with servers?
Containers and auto-provisioning
Design for cloud

26. Go from
Assumed predictability
to
Creating serendipity
Changed mindset

27. Go from
Transformation programmes
to
Transformation Platforms
Changed mindset

28. Focus on
Ability to change
Don’t worry (too much) about the
target state
Changed mindset

29. The semantic web is dead,
long live the semantic web
JSON, Rest, etc provides a
practical implementation
Semantic web

30. Would you dare to cool?
or
How do you unleash enthusiasm?
#OpenSource mindset

32. NO Business and IT

33. NO Thuth

34. NO Experience

35. NO Keyboard
NO UI
NO Process
NO Infrastructure (or Invisible Infostructure)
NO ...

36. Summing up
Don’t plan for the unplannable
Embrace #NoRequirements
Embrace platforms
Embrace OpenAPI
Build on autonomous services
Complicated problems require simple solutions

37. Contact
Joakim
Lindbom
CTO | Enterprise Architect
Joakim.Lindbom@capgemini.com
08-5368 3934
0708-166404
twitter: JoakimLindbom
http://www.slideshare.net/JoakimLindbom
http://www.linkedin.com/in/joakimlindbom

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