biztalk maturity assessment
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Background about how to evaluate how mature your organisations investment in BizTalk is and why you would want to do this.TRANSCRIPT
Introducing BizTalk Maturity Assessment
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Who am I?Michael Stephenson
– UK-Based Freelance Consultant specializing in:• BizTalk• Windows Azure• Integration
– Was BizTalk MVP now a Microsoft Integration MVP for 5+ years
– One of organizers of UK Connected Systems User Group
– Blog: www.geekswithblogs.net/michaelstephenson
– Twitter: @michael_Stephen
– Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelstephensonuk1
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Agenda• Common Customer Scenarios
• BizTalk Maturity Assessment
• Demo
SCENARIOSBizTalk Maturity Assessment
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New Customer• A new customer has just chosen to buy BizTalk• The customer is full of good intentions• How do they ensure they start out in the right way to be
successful
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Isolated Project Team• A project team completes a BizTalk project• The project team leaves• A period of time later the customer doesn’t really
understand what they have• The customer now has BizTalk but:
– doesn’t really know what else they can do with BizTalk– Doesn’t really understand what they have been left with
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Project Disaster• A project BizTalk project is underway but is going wrong• The project team don’t have in place the things which gives
projects a chance of going well• Things get very heated• The project fails or people/vendors get replaced
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Heavy Dependency on Individuals• An organisation has delivered many BizTalk projects• All of the knowledge is in a small number of people’s heads• There is no collaborative way of working and little
documentation• People move on• The organisation is in a bad place and doesn’t really
understand how to move forwards
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Outsourcing ignores existing processes• An organisation has delivered many BizTalk projects• The organisation outsources its BizTalk capability• The outsource partner doesn’t maintain or follow the
existing ways of working which delivered success• The organisation didn’t really understand those existing
ways of working• The outsource partners has problems with new projects• The partner blames the original project team• The organisation doesn’t understand why things used to
work and now they dont
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Vendor Quality Assurance• An organisation engages with a partner to deliver a BizTalk
project• The organisation wants to make sure the partner is doing a
good job and will leave them in a healthy position at the end of the project
• The organisation cant govern or measure that the partner is doing the right things
• The partner wants to be able to demonstrate to their customer that they are following recognised best practices
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Cross Project Quality Assurance• A consultancy has many concurrent projects involving
BizTalk• They have some projects which are successful• They have some projects which are painful• How do you ensure all projects are covering key• How do you ensure projects are consistent
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Common Theme
“The technology is blamed for deficiencies in the organisational
capability”
BIZTALK MATURITY ASSESSMENTBizTalk Maturity Assessment
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Aim
“Provide an industry recognised model of the common behaviours which lead to successful
integration experiences with BizTalk”
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Overview• Survey your organisation• Profile your capability• Identify improvement opportunities• Measure your improvement Survey
Profile Results
Identify Improvements
Implement Improvements
Behaviour Categories & LevelsCategories• Architecture• People• Development• Deployment• Infrastructure• Testing• Support• Requirements
Maturity Levels• Initial• Managed• Standardized• Predictable• Optimising
Typical Maturity Model
Maturity ProfileBefore After
1. Initial
2. Managed
3. Standardized4. Predictable
5. Optimizing
Overall Maturity Profile
1. Initial
2. Managed
3. Standardized4. Predictable
5. Optimizing
Overall Maturity Profile
DEMOBizTalk Maturity Assessment
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Who would be interested?
Overall Maturity
Maturity By Category
Maturity by Category & Level
CTO, Senior Management,Capability Owner
Delivery Manager, Development Manager,Infrastructure Manager
Developer, Architect,BizTalk Administrator, System Admin
Overall MaturityBefore After
1. Initial
2. Managed
3. Standardized4. Predictable
5. Optimizing
Overall Maturity Profile
1. Initial
2. Managed
3. Standardized4. Predictable
5. Optimizing
Overall Maturity Profile
Maturity By Category
Archite
cture
Development
Methodology
Monitorin
gPeople
Requirements
Support
Deployment
Infrastr
ucture
Testing
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Overall Maturity % By Category
Maturity by Level & Category
1. Initial 2. Managed 3. Standardized 4. Predictable 5. Optimizing0
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Maturity % By Level & Category
DeploymentDevelopment
SUMMARYBizTalk Maturity Assessment
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Summary• 200+ questions about all angles of your BizTalk capability
• 2 case studies demonstrating its use
• Contributed to by 8 MVP’s and some recognised partners from around the world
• Its free to use!!
http://www.BizTalkMaturity.com