Agile Scrum VS Kanban Model

The Agile Scrum VS Kanban

IT Strategy Formation - Alignment, Transformation, Enablement and Optimization

Definition of Strategy: A strategy is the art of using battles to win wars,  by Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) and Strategy is the practical adaptation of the means placed at a general's disposal to the attainment of the object in view.” by Helmuth Karl BernhardGraf von Moltke (1800 -1891)

IT Strategy: IT strategy is a comprehensive plan that information technology management professionals use to guide their organizations. An IT strategy should cover all facets of technology management,  cost management, human capital  management, hardware/software management, vendor management, risk management and all other considerations in the enterprise IT environment.

Executing an IT strategy requires strong IT leadership the chief information officer (CIO) and chief technology officer (CTO) need to work closely with business, budget and legal departments as well as with other user groups within the organization.

Many organizations choose to formalize their information technology strategy in a written document or balanced scorecard strategy map.  The plan and its documentation should be flexible enough to change in response to new organizational circumstances and business priorities, budgetary constraints, available skill sets and core competencies, new technologies and a growing understanding of user needs and business objectives.

IT Strategy Development and Planning

  Strategy Key Drivers :

1. Vision long-term, encouraging, aspiration for the future

2. Mission purpose of the business

3. Values attitudes, behaviours, character of organization to guide actions like an internal compass

1. Forming a Strategic Vision: - Very in the strategy making processing  organization managers need to prepare set of questions

1.What is our vision for the organization?

2.Where should the organization be headed?

3.What should its future technology, product, customer focus be?

4.What kind of enterprise do we want to become?

5. what industry standard do we want to achieve in x years?

2. Setting Objectives: -

1.The purpose of setting objectives  is to convert managerial statements of strategic vision and business mission in to specific performance  business targets , results the organization wants to achieve

2. Setting objectives and then measuring weather they are achieved or not help CEO’s track an organization process.

3. Crafting Strategy: - An Organization strategy represents

Managements answers towards to business view

1.Weather to concentrate on a single business or build a diversified group

2.How to grow the enterprise over long term

3.How big a geographic market to try or cover

Organization Strategy Consists of : -

1.How to Grow the Business

2.How to satisfy the customers

3.How to out compete Competitor

4.How to achieve Strategic and financial objectives.

4. Strategic Implementation and Execution: -  Strategy implementation concerns the managerial exercise of  newly chosen in place

5. Evaluation and Monitoring:-  Management’s duty to sit on top of the organization  weather things are going as planed and the performance measure. 

Note: I will continue with Alignment, Transformation and Optimization .. :)

7 Wastes of Software Development

7 Wastes of Software Development

Enterprise Mobility Strategies 2013

One: Mobile devices will overtake the PC’s another 3 years and by 2015 Media Tablet shipments will reach around 50% of Laptop shipments and windows will likely be third place behind Apple and Android. The use of smartphone and tablet will continue to surge in the enterprise, changing the way they do business. According to estimates, 821 million smartphones and tablets have been purchased globally in 2012. The number is expected to exceed the one billion mark in 2013.

Note: 2013 will no longer be the iPads alone. Analysts believe that Windows 8 will be a preferred choice in the tablet market after Apple and Android. This growth will largely be driven by enterprise demand rather than consumers.

Two: The Platform as a service model running applications without the hassle of maintaining the hardware and software infrastructure at your company, Irrespective the Enterprise size have adopt PaaS model for the simplicity, scalability and reliability. PaaS will provide infinite scalability, supporting and delivering mobile access to thousands of tasks used by thousands of employees in major corporations, Insights Mobile enterprise apps will allow employees to access and interact with real-time data on a handheld device + a cloud-based technology. As a tangible benefit by providing real time information that can be acted on immediately from anywhere at any time to accelerate the pace of decision-making, improve operations.

Gartner Predict on PaaS: The PaaS market will touch $1.5bn in 2013 and the global revenue for Platform as a service (PaaS) will grow consistently and by 2016 reaches to $2.9bn.

Three: HTML5 becomes more capable for multi platform and support of the mobile apps leads to a long-term shift from native apps to Web apps, however that the native apps won't disappear and "will always offer the best user experience and most sophisticated features." The shift from native apps to hybrid/web apps will be the cost benefit and “write ones run anywhere”.

                                                                    

Four: Integration is a major challenge to leverage both corporate –issued and employee - owned devices by the consumerization of BYOD, IT and Mobile device management enable to get the Enterprise data, A Massive integration take place..

Five : Enterprise App Stores – Enterprises face a complex app store future as some vendors will limit their stores to specific devices and types of apps forcing the enterprise to deal with multiple stores, multiple payment processes and multiple sets of licensing terms. By 2014, Gartner believes that many organizations will deliver mobile applications to workers through private application stores. With enterprise app stores the role of IT shifts from that of a centralized planner to a market manager providing governance and brokerage services to users and potentially an ecosystem..

What is Enterprise Mobility and how it influence the C-level Executives?

• Enterprise Mobility is a term that describes a shift in work habits with more employees working OOO by using mobile devices and clouding computing.
• Enterprise mobility enables a workforce to have instant access to information through mobile applications anywhere, anytime. People are fundamentally changing the way they work and to remain competitive, organizations are making enterprise applications accessible through mobile devices.

Market Potential & Prediction: 

Mobile has become integral part of our life and Smart-phones and tablets are everywhere except in the enterprise.

Gartner predict sales of 1.2 billion smart-phones and tablets in 2013(i.e are smart devices, including smart-phones and tablets), It’s going to be 50% increase over the last year.

Predicting 2013 is going to be major shift from traditional desktop apps to mobile apps/enterprise mobility apps for the usage of C-level executives irrespective of the industry for their decisions on fly. Eg dash boards, analytics, KPI’s, productivity, inventory and what not? So Enterprise mobility apps are going to be the true virtual office for their strategic and crucial decisions.

Mobile Apps Influence the below Industries: 

The major shift from traditional desktop apps and PDA’s to Mobile Apps as follows:

• FMCG/Retail
• Pharma
• Communications
• Oil & Gas
• Chemical
• Banking
• Insurance
• Hospitality
• Manufacturing
• Hi-tech
• Auto
• Aviation and 
• Real Estate, etc.

Enterprise Mobility Market Strategy & Prediction:

1. By Markets and Markets: Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and Enterprise Mobility Market worth $181.39 Billion by 2017.

2. By Global Industry Analysts, Inc: Global Market for Enterprise Mobility to Exceed US$168.8 Billion by 2015, by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

Conclusion: Mobile Apps/Enterprise Mobility is influence the above industry insights huge demand for the relevant mobile apps.

My next post will on Enterprise Mobility Trends.

Thanks,

Venkat SRG.