Skytap workshop

Overview

IBM wanted to have a workshop with Skytap executives to find out how might IBM and Skytap work together on an affordable cloud offering for large production POWER/AIX workloads (large CPU, memory, and storage requirements and HA).

Date: March 1st and March 2nd, 2018
Location: IBM Client Experience Center, Austin, TX, 78758

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The goal

  • How might IBM and Skytap work together on an affordable cloud offering for large production POWER/AIX workloads (large CPU, memory, and storage requirements and HA)?
  • How might IBM and Skytap bring to market a cloud-based certified SAP offering?
  • How might IBM and Skytap provide a management / admin experience (PowerVC, PowerSC, etc.) which spans on-premises and Skytap Cloud?
  • What are the Power workloads Skytap, with the support of IBM, should focus on in order to maximize revenue and profitability?

The agenda

Part 1 – 100mins

  • Design Thinking Intro
  • Warmup Exercise
  • Problem Area Alignment
  • User Rundown
  • Needs Statements
  • Playback

Part 2 – 60mins

  • Big Ideas
  • N.I.M. Notions in Motion
  • Playback
  • Conclusion

My team mate Patrick and I facilitated the workshop

Exercises

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The outcome

We successfully completed the workshop where the clients created their persona. After that  they crafter their need statements into different consumable MVPs i.e. – Scooter, Motorcycle or Car. Then based on that they generated the Big Ideas.