Unicom - ALM - Solution Lifecycle Management (SLM) in the Cloud

Jonathon Wright ([email protected])http://www.linkedin.com/in/automa

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Unicom ALM Conference (Thursday @ 11:30 AM, 27th February 2014)

Solution Lifecycle Management (SLM) in the Cloud

@jonathon_wright#UNICOMSeminars


The current economic climate is making companies review their approach to IT even more closely

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“There has been substantial investment recently in the innovation of application life cycle management tools from both open and closed source organisations. This helps enforce business and domain specific rules and ensures that in the application lifecycle for each

stage is enforced and clear deliveries are enforced from business requirement to deployment a bond is made by architectural, design and implementation compliance safeguards. Many such allow software design standards and business rules to be codified in a purpose made

meta-languages.” Testing-Alliance.com (2014)

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Background – About me

www.slideshare.net/Jonathon_Wright

LinkedIn + Email ([email protected])

www.linkedin.com/in/automation

http://www.slideshare.net/Jonathon_Wright

platform, technology, client, browser, version, language, test type agnostic

Executing Cloud Tests

VM Dispenser TechnologyCloud Test Environments

written natural language(ATDD, BDD, TDD, Waterfall)

Creating Cloud Tests

Background – What I do - Agile-Portfolio.com

service-oriented architectureBuilt in the Cloud


SAAS

“Over the past three years we have been developing a Azure cloud based solution to provide"Test Automaton as a Service" using a hybrid automation approach specifically designed with

the Hybrid Cloud (Private/Public) in mind to utilise the instant scalability, flexibility and availability of the Cloud.”


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- HP Application Lifecycle Management

- HP Agile Manager- HP Executive Dashboard

2014 - TODAY

Evolution of ‘Application Lifecycle Management’ over three decades

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Background – Three Decades in ALM vs. SLM – 1990s


Distributed Teams – Application Lifecycle Management - Test Director

SolutionInternal intranet testing

engineering site.

Test Management Tool (no requirements management).

Problem SpaceTesting of VOIP & SIP across

Europe & the US.

Graduate Tester

1st Gen(Standalone)AUTSUT

Locations:5Teams:10 Client

Server

Tool(s): 1

Licenses 10+

Budget in thousands, company in

millions

Automation ArchitectCore Hours 1am to 10am (EST)

Graduate TestersCore Hours 9am to 5pm (EST)

Automation TestersCore Hours 9am to 5pm (GMT)



Distributed Teams – Application Lifecycle Management - Test Director

SolutionIntroduction of Business

Process Modelling.

Real-time ‘Actionable Insight’ over WSDL/SOAP.

Problem SpaceTesting of Fixed Income

platforms across the globe.

Test Architect

3rd Gen(Distributed)SUT

Locations:20

+

Teams:100+Tool(s): 15+

Budget in millions, company in

billions

Web

AUT

Test Consultants (UK)Core Hours 9am to 5pm (GMT)

Test Consultants (NY)Core Hours 9am to 5pm (EST)

Test Consultants 9am to 5pm (UTC+8)

Development Capability (US)Core Hours 9am to 5pm

Development Capability (EUR)Core Hours 9am to 5pm

Licenses 100+



Solution Lifecycle Management in the Cloud – Commodity Trading Platform

SolutionContinuous Build & Delivery

(PTaaS/TaaaS/IaaS/PaaS/TaaS)Real-time SLM in the Cloud.

Input - ATDD/WebServices/XAMLOutput – CI/WebServices/XML

Reporting – Realtime Dashboards

Problem SpaceTesting of Commodity

Trading Platforms across the globe.

Global Head of

Automation

4th Gen(Cloud)

Locations:25

+

Teams:50+Tool(s): 20+

Budget in millions, company in

billions

AUTSUT

Cloud




Development Capability (EUR)Core Hours 9am to 5pm

Licenses PAYU

Background – Three Decades in ALM vs. SLM – Today


Enterprise Distributed Agile Portfolio Management in the Cloud - Global Investment Bank

SolutionPure Agile Portfolio

Management across over 300 business workstreams.

Scalable Testing as a Service resourcing pool 10,000+.(Across 2,600+ Applications)

Problem SpaceTesting of GT (Global

Technology) Platforms for across the globe.

Agile Portfolio

Management

5th Gen(APM)

Locations:10

0s

Teams:1k+Tool(s): 50+

Budget 78 million, company investment 4

billion

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wAgile Teams (US)Core Hours 9am to 5pm (EST)

wAgile Teams (EUR)Core Hours 9am to 5pm (CET)


TESTINGAS A SERVICE

(TaaS)INFRASTRUCTURE

AS A SERVICE(IaaS)

SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE(SaaS)

REAL-TIME VISIBILITY AND CONTROL

INSTANT SCALABILITYSCALE UP AND DOWN

HIGH AVAILABILITY

CMMI

PLATFORM AS A SERVICE(PaaS)

ISO 29119

PAY AS YOU USE(PAYU)

SLA’s

Background – My Journey to the Cloud


“We’ve all heard the claims that cloud computing will, without any up-front investment, provide instant scalability, flexibility, and availability for testing-on-demand. But how well

does this work in practice?”

SLM Ready?

Cloud Power

Solution Lifecycle

Management in the Cloud

Where are we going next?


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Q1) What is ‘Solution Lifecycle Management’ in the Cloud?


“Existing technologies of virtualisation, business process modelling, cloud based ‘application lifecycle management’ solutions and rapid and easy internet access allow for the

development of approaches that allow companies to leverage ‘Software as a Service’ and pay only for what they use (PAYU).”

Q2) – Which ‘Application Lifecycle Management’ Tools?


“My current landscape consisted of over 300+ solutions under test (SUT), representing 2,700+ applications under test (AUT), across 50+ global locations with over 10,000

practitioners worldwide.”

http://pm.versionone.com/

http://tfs.visualstudio.com/

• Delivering business value, not just driving process efficiency

• Supporting individual, team, and institutional management

• Extending life cycles to include delivery• Managing software that gets deployed everywhere

• Integrating across tools


Q3) Business Benefits of ‘Solution Lifecycle Management’*?

*Source - The Forrester Wave™: Application Life-Cycle Management, Q4 2012

• Using reporting and dashboards to provide ‘Business Insight’

“Improve Reporting of Business-Oriented Metrics to Demonstrate the Value of QA – more organisations are beginning to centralise QA practices and develop TCOEs most still need to prove the business value of QA by reporting operational metrics linked to specific business

outcomes” - World Quality Report (2013-14)

CMM Phase Criteria

Level 1 Initial

processes are disorganized, even chaotic. Success is likely to depend on individual efforts, and is not considered to be repeatable, because processes would not be sufficiently defined and documented to allow them to be replicated

Level 2 Repeatablebasic project management techniques are established, and successes could be repeated, because the requisite processes would have been made established, defined, and documented

Level 3 Defined an organization has developed its own standard software process through greater attention to documentation, standardization, and integration

Level 4 Managed an organization monitors and controls its own processes through data collection and analysis

Level 5 Optimisedprocesses are constantly being improved through monitoring feedback from current processes and introducing innovative processes to better serve the organization's particular needs

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Capability Maturity Model (CMM®)Assessment to provide a current software ‘process’ maturity level & the target maturity level:

* Reference models: CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) IPD-CMM (Integrated Product Development Capability Maturity Model) P-CMM (People Capability Maturity Model) SA-CMM (Software Acquisition Capability Maturity Model) SE-CMM (Systems Engineering Capability Maturity Model) SW-CMM (Capability Maturity Model for Software)

Q4) Is our business ready for ‘Solution Lifecycle Management’?

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Q5) Are we ready for ‘Solution Lifecycle Management’?

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Dashboards

Funnel Virtualisation“Encourage simplicity”

Documentation

Living Meta Data“Master the Data”

Team Working

Remote collaboration“Collaborate inventively”

Activity Streams

Real-time info“Embrace cloud workforces”

Q6) How to become an ‘Ambassador of Data’ / ‘Business Insight’?

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Funnel Virtualisation

BusinessInsight

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“Data security and safeguarding access to cloud infrastructure remain a priority for CIOs – especially given the number of highly publicized recent security breaches. The hybrid cloud option is becoming more popular, as it allows companies to split between public and private

cloud infrastructures.” - World Quality Report (2013-14)

“Everyday business and consumer life creates 2.5 quintillion bytes of data per day and 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years?” – Data Explosion

Development

SD-PM SD-TEST SD-AUTOMATIONVendors

Tier 3 - Sub-Domains – Application Level (x2,738)

Tier 2 - Domains – Solution Level (x330)

Domain Leads

Domain StakeholdersDomain PMDomain Test Managers

Tier 0 – Programme Level (x4)

Heads of Testing

Head of Automation Global Technology Office

Tier 1 - Workstream – Portfolio Level (x8)

Portfolio Test Managers

Workstream Stakeholders

Workstream LeadsAPM

ProductsOrganisation

al Agile

Portfolio Reporting

Hybrid Cloud

Distributed AgileProject ArtefactsALM

ProductsLocal

Network

APM Products Global-widePublic Cloud

Executive (Business Insight)

SLM Products

EnterpriseAgile

Private Cloud

EnterpriseReporting

Q7) Real-world ‘Agile Portfolio Management’?

SLM Ready

Cloud Power

Solution Lifecycle

Managementin the Cloud

“To the cloud”


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Q8) Should we move to the cloud?

New Challenges & Opportunities ?

A match made in heaven?


and/or

“Make greater use of the cloud for testing – Organisations are taking a cautious approach to ‘Testing in the Cloud’ we advice developing a specific strategy for migrating testing to the

Cloud, factoring in explicit requirements, tools and opportunities that the cloud offers” - World Quality Report (2013-14)

Consumer Freedom


“Enable sophisticated modelling of the components of cloud deployments, including servers, storage, databases and data.

For the consumption of cloud resources” - PlanForCloud.com (2012)

CompareTesting.com

Instant scalability

Flexible Test ExecutionFlexible Test Assets Environments on-demand

Geo-based execution

Instant Accessibility

99.9% Availability (100% Web)

Instant Portability

Best of Breed (BoB) tools on demand

No upfront investment

Pay As You Use (PAYU)

New Opportunities


PrivateCombination

Public

SUT SUTSUT

CommunityClouds

PublicClouds

PrivateClouds

TaaaS.net TaaaS.net

“... the prediction that 60% of the average enterprise will have 60% of its applications in the cloud.”

- Karl Flinders, Computer Weekly (2011)

Q9) Cloud Type

SLM Ready

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Q10) Built ‘Solution Lifecycle Management’ platform, you have?

Transform Integrate Learn Use the insightCourtesy of Intel© Corporation

2014

The Future - Agile Portfolio Management

@jonathon_wright#UNICOMSeminars Twitter with how many slides in this presentation? 25

“The best aspects of these proven approaches demonstrate how they have evolved over the

past decade, and this echoes some of the changes towards more lean and agile business methodologies. They are in a constant state of

evolution – just as the underpinning technology evolves over time.”

My section in the ‘Experiences in Test Automation’ book(Dorothy Graham & Mark Fewster) 2012.

Final Thoughts – Solution Lifecycle Management in the Cloud

• World Quality Report

• Previous Conference Exposure STARWest – California Fusion – Sydney BCS – London EuroSTAR – Sweden ANZTB – New Zealand Unicom - London

• Upcoming Unicom Conferences in 2014 Enterprise Collaboration through BPM – March 2014

(http://www.capgemini.com/thought-leadership/world-quality-report-2013-14)