The Rise in Digital Means a Rise in Agile Networks | Market Insights™
June 10, 2019
Rise in digital means rise in agile networks: As enterprises launch more digital projects, demand for agile and programmable networks rises
Rise in digital means rise in agile networks: As enterprises launch more digital projects, demand for agile and programmable networks rises
Complimentary 60-minute webinar to be held on Thursday, September 27, 2018 | 9 a.m. CDT, 10 a.m. EDT, 3 p.m. BST, 7:30 p.m. IST
Questions we’ll address:
As frequent delivery and customer satisfaction become the new currencies for IT organizations, a greater number of enterprises are embracing Agile and DevOps methodologies to rapidly deploy useful software. As traditional, Waterfall-based contracts are unable to manage the ambiguity and complexity related to Agile, the increase in Agile adoption is causing sourcing groups to reassess outsourcing contract templates.
Who should attend, and why?
This webinar will provide Strategic Outsourcing & Vendor Management groups with practical insights for structuring and negotiating Agile contracts.
Presenters
Jimit Arora
Partner
Everest Group
Abhishek Sharma
Partner
Everest Group
Moderator
Alan Wolfe
Senior Vice President
Everest Group
In the last few years, enterprise preference for IT service delivery has shifted subtly toward in-house delivery. While IT support remains predominantly outsourced, share of delivery from Global In-house Centers (GICs, or shared services centers) has risen steadily.
Triple mandate for enterprises, technology priorities, emerging roles with enterprises
Top 20 startup trailblazers across the spectrum:
While pervasive digital technologies have lead to improved and seamless user experiences, they also have increased exposure to cybersecurity threats and data breaches. As a result, software engineering teams need integrate security into their products, weaving it into both Dev and Ops processes.
Startup activity across the full product spectrum, from ideation to management
OBJECTIVE of software engineering startup acquisition
TYPE OF FIRM acquiring software engineering startups
Market disruptions are putting existing QA models are under the microscope, compelling QA organizations to transform themselves to deliver breakthrough business value
The digital services market is seeing a lot of traction, with technology companies acquiring digital and creative agencies to expand their digital portfolio. A modern digital services provider is continuously adding services into its digital portfolio, such as social, mobile, analytics, and cloud. Digital agencies help these technology providers build expertise in customer insight, user interface (UI) design, and campaign design. Hence, digital acquisitions help service providers expand quickly, and compete to grab a larger pie of the digital services market.
This is leading to a new disruptive model where customers get creative and seek business strategy from one firm instead of multiple agencies and consulting firms. However, the integration between consulting, design, and system development/deployment is harder to achieve on real customer engagements.
The new digital landscape is making a significant impact on traditional delivery models. Most organizations have adopted agile and DevOps models to help development and operation teams deliver with higher speed and efficiency. The focus on digital and design thinking is pushing organizations to think through new models to integrate user experience (UX) with agile delivery teams.
Traditionally, there has been little overlap between UX and development teams, and both teams have operated in silos. In order to provide digital capabilities, service providers are setting up design studios to ideate and prototype digital solutions for clients. This requires UI designers, solution architects, and developers to quickly prototype a solution to test feasibility before piloting the solution.
UX professionals might find it difficult to understand and collaborate with agile teams. UX designers typically focus on laying out the entire design in one go. In contrast, development teams focus on creating a “Minimal Viable Product” using agile methodology.
Historically, enterprises have adopted an internal agency approach wherein the UI designers are allocated to projects based on their area of specialization. But, this model may not be best suited in the new digital world, wherein UI designers and development teams need to work in tandem to quickly deliver sprints. In cross-functional teams, UI designers will have to be closely aligned to the agile teams for digital transformation projects.
There are several ways enterprises can address some of these challenges:
Enterprises that are able to think ahead and focus on solving these team integration challenges will be able to reap the most benefit from an integrated digital environment. As I see it, enterprises have barely started with DevOps! So the cultural shift to DevOps might need to be even more dramatic, as it now needs to integrate design as well!
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