Capability Checklist

4 key areas
  • establish capability roadmap, talent analysis and financial model

  • design software architecture based on IEEE body of knowledge

  • develop data platform with DataOps, MLOps and DevOps by best practices

  • govern operation with metrics and compliance in ISO standard

Expertise on
  • capability roadmap with financial model, domain LOB, valuation, priority (build vs buy)

  • budget forecast for hiring by talent role, cloud, software, opex, capex.

  • alignment plan for Goal, KPI & OKR, compensation by skill, reward by team

  • working model for POD lifecycle

  • system architecture & software design

  • devops, devsecops, dataops, MLops, finops

Capability Roadmap
  • Prioritization for in-take initiative using value vs feasibility matrix

  • funding scope, technology blueprint

    • compliance process

    • R&D for AI data lake

  • create north star distribution for business valuation

    • % on talent & leader training

    • % on team efficiency improvement

    • % on domain capability construction

  • create objective alignment: from operation metrics to business critical success factor

  • create capability roadmap: foundation capability, domain capability by quarter against with financial EBITDA/cash flow

Budget & Talent plan
  • perform talent analysis and hiring plan

  • establish career path, Job description for each technical role

  • forecast budget for cloud service, software and capex and opex.

  • forecast funding on buy vs build outsource vs build in-house

Reusable Process & Technology
  • user journey by layer: UX, Application, Backoffice, Data, Infrastructure

  • establish overall system architecture

  • define Software architecture & operation pipeline

  • define Data architecture & operation pipeline

  • define Machine Learning architecture & operation pipeline

  • define Cloud infrastructure & operation pipeline

Product Roadmap
  • vision, alignment, commitment

  • domain-based approach, prioritizing domain

  • build capability: foundation, scoping, partnering

  • digital roadmap as contract to c-suite

  • leaders of business line, business function

Talents
  • resources: pod, talent analysis

  • core vs non-core capabilities: talent gap

  • talent team to build digital team

  • adjust compensation for skill

  • use tech competency marker in performance management

  • fostering craftsmanship excellence: career path, learning journeys

POD agile transformation
  • being agile pod, building blocks, product management

  • customer experience designs

Tech Operations
  • pipeline automation, evolving, real-time data processing cloud native, FinOps

  • engineering practices: devops, maintainability, CI/CD, tooling

  • control, audit, scalable, available, monitoring, observability

  • DevSecOps

Data Management
  • data product, data pipeline, architecture, data capability,

  • MLops: AI scaling

Growth Metrics
  • user adaption

  • replication, modularity

  • KPI

  • risk, policy, trust

  • culture

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