This was a Q&A with a panel of customer experts who deliver continuously, one of which was Perficient’s own JP Morgenthal! There were over a hundred folks in this session grilling the panel about implementation details including use cases, skill development, process improvements, reporting and governance, business benefits and more.
JP explained among a lot of other things how challenging but at the same time very important it is to take a holistic approach to deployment by pulling all the teams together and making them collaborate.
The questioners didn’t pull any punches. For example, one of the questions that was asked was “What do you think is missing from the current version of IBM Rational UrbanCode Deploy?” The panel agreed reporting could be improved. However, uDeploy has been around for a while now and is a very mature product.
IBM could have easily made this into a two instead of a one hour session. The hour really flew by.
Why was this an extremely valuable discussion? Because delivering software is extremely challenging—and made more so by the demands of the marketplace to innovate faster while adopting a sea change in technology including secure cloud, mobile, big data analytics, and social platforms. Agile is speeding up the pace of development for all platforms, new and standard, and is becoming mainstream. These customers have also dramatically increased deployment speed and productivity, with comparable or improved quality and risk.
I suggest you contact JP at jp.morgenthal@perficient.com if you’re interested in taking your delivery process to the next level!
