Who Needs TechDrivers?

You are implementing a disruptive technology platform for the first time. The heritage enterprise has all of the typical resistance you expected.

You are moving from monolithic business applications to next generation, platform-driven systems. Everything from your staff, to your processes, to your vendor contracts will be affected. You need a tour guide for what you are about to face.

You remember the pain and suffering of PCI, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, and other regulations on core systems. You also know where the bones are buried. You made it through the audit, but only sideways and on fire (but unfortunately not on FHIR). You know there are cases where secure data is being written into logs. You know that you have passwords in the clear in your IT administration layer that will make your migration to the cloud risky. You know you there is a lot of cleanup to be done in parallel with a lot of new innovation.

You tried to hold on to traditional, monolithic, core systems as long as you could. But you waited too long. Your core IT vendors are now delivering their software in the form of cloud, private cloud, and containers. You no longer have the choice to migrate. To stay current with your software versions you have to slay these dragons. You have to move towards cloud and container technologies. It will be painful. It will be expensive. It won't be optional. You need someone who has lived through that cycle on a grand scale, with management, decision, and hands-on experience.

Your IT group reports every business outage as being a "SEV1" with the ball in the vendor's court. But you know better. IT Software and Cloud solutions are simply tools. It's testing, training, appropriate staffing levels, talent, processes, and effort that define the quality of a solution. You need to sort out, reset, and reduce the thrash in your IT department.

When your core business applications have a problem there is no path to resolution. One by one you hear from leaders of development, operations, testing, user experience, and security. They all check out. Nobody reports a problem in their area of responsibility. But obviously there is a problem. You don't care where the problem lies. You need it sorted out and solved. You need to create a problem solving task force that assures your IT personnel they will keep their job while getting the real story of what is happening.

Your company attempted to drive business value through Microservices, only to unleash an expensive, chaotic mess.

Any technology that changes how training programs work for IT employees, and eventually how universities respond in their curriculum.