build your own tech radar
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AGENDA
▫︎ The Tech Radar
▫︎A Personal Tech Radar
▫︎An Enterprise Tech Radar
▫︎ The ThoughtWorks Tech Radar
▫︎Building your own!
▫︎A Project Radar
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WHY BUILD ONE?
▫︎ It helps guiding your career decisions.
▫︎ It helps restoring the sanity to purchase decisions.
▫︎ It steers the technology direction.
▫︎ It’s cool.
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SO IT HELPS YOU TO…
Understand what’s happening outside of the bubble. Keep you in sync with other nascent technologies. Guide your decisions when investing in other technologies.
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CHALLENGE & INNOVATIONThere’s a lot of risk when adopting new technologies. Having a company radar help balancing this risks and makes the continuous innovation easier.
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“For any given technology, your organisation has an ideal location on the innovation curve, balancing risk
versus reward”
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“Technology never sits still; you must (re-)evaluate it constantly or risk drastically falling behind your
competitors”
COMMUNICATION & BUSINESS ALIGNMENTUnified Message from the Technical to the Interested-but-non-technical
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A COMMUNICATION TOOL
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“In most organisations, there is no feedback loop from the people who use technology to
the people who choose it.”
TECHNOLOGY & BUSINESS ALIGNMENT
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“A tech radar allows more intelligent decision making and career planning”
DEFINING THE THINGS (BLIPS)
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What’re the things you want to capture?
Categorise them and capture the state
TOOLSTECHNIQUES
PLATFORMSLANGUAGES & FRAMEWORKS
DEFINING THE CYCLE (RINGS)
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How fast can you assess the things?
The lesser the cycles the greater the risk in adoption.
HOLD ADOPT
EXECUTION GUIDE
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▫︎ Have a white board with your structure.
▫︎ Put all the blips (cards) separated by the categories.
▫︎ Have some one facilitate the reading, discussion and placement of them in the rings.
▫︎ Have someone else writing down the motivations for the placement.
▫︎ Review and re-evaluate.
OUTPUT AND DIGITAL VERSION
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The output will be a list of things (blips) separated in categories (quadrants) distributed in the
adoption lifecycle (rings).
You can use tools to plot this radar in a digital version
github.com/bdargan/techradar
THE PITFALLS
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▫︎ Long passionate discussions
▫︎ Things we couldn’t change or assess
▫︎Don’t like vs. not worth assessing
▫︎ The “adopt all” symptom
▫︎ The hold vs. avoid
THE OUTCOME
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▫︎ Knowledge sharing
▫︎ People in sync with the things
▫︎ Snapshot of the present
▫︎Better visibility of the future
For questions or suggestions: Bruno Trecenti
twitter@brunotrecenti github@trecenti
For more information, check-out Neal Ford blog-post:
http://bit.ly/1hmfwNS
THANK YOU