Tech Alignment Work Group
The Work Group accountable for the Technology Alignment Domain:
Even though our Value Stream teams develop, deliver, and run different products for our customers, there are many technical things they have in common, such as similar requirements that need to be addressed, similar processes, similar infrastructure and software, etc. If each team solves these things on their own, we risk reinventing the wheel in each team and thus not only doing redundant work, but also missing the opportunity to leverage team-independent collective intelligence. Also, there are from time to time strategic technology decisions to be made that have a crucial business impact, such as technology partnerships, or the change of necessary skills when introducing a new technology.
We therefore need a way to align ourselves on the technical level, to identify problems and opportunities, and make decisions together. This allows us to find solutions for similar challenges across teams where it makes sense, learn from mistakes and developments so that they are not repeated in other teams, and prevents that we duplicate or triplicate work in different teams.
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- Scheduled Meetings
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We meet regularly to progress our agenda. The Zoom link can be found in our chat channel.
- Meeting Notes
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Our meeting notes can be found in our wiki.
- Chat
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Talk to us in #tech-alignment-wg.
- Work Tracking
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We use Jira to track our work in the VTAW project. We also maintain a Kanban Board.
What we do
- Work Planning
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We plan work which is related to our Key Responsibilities. As the workgroup itself doesn’t do any operational work, this work is assigned to a Team which is able to work on it.
- Information Sharing
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We share information over team boundaries to learn from each other, in the form of brief reports.
- Governance / Decisions
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We’re governing VIPs assigned to our workgroup.
Members
Tech Alignment role keepers of the Value Stream Teams and others who contribute or participate in governance.
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Sandro Kaspar
Tech Alignment of Managed Kubernetes -
Simon Gerber
Tech Alignment of Managed OpenShift & APPUiO -
Michel Rios
Tech Alignment of Managed Server based Services -
Gabriel Saratura
Tech Alignment of Application Marketplace -
Manuel Hutter
Tech Alignment of AppOps & AppFlow -
Daniel Hauswirth
CISO representing Information Security Domain -
Tobias Brunner
Product Management (tech focus)
This team is tracked and reviewed as part of VIP-265