In this episode of the Hybrid Cloud Forecast series, Andre talks to Rachel Reinitz, IBM Fellow, Vice President, Founder & CTO IBM Garage.  Rachel talks about how the Garage started and  its principles of design thinking and agile development became very popular with customers, so much so that a number more locations were opened. The IBM Garage methodology innovatively helps in taking big ideas and testing them out - and has a systematic process to evaluate ideas and prototype them.  Andre talks about repeatability and automation and their importance to Hybrid Cloud applications. They also discuss the dark side of hybrid cloud which is the  management of its many moving parts - and the balance between being too course grained and too fine grained while creating microservices.  Rachel talks about using design thinking and marrying that with agile development, peer programming, and test driven development to create products that delight customers. The foundation of the garage is to deliver at speed on ideas that matter. Andre and Rachel discuss the challenges of having design workshops virtually and the role of technology.  They talk about how they innovate and yet maintain consistency - basically being able to adapt and repeat what works and learn from what does not. They talk about the importance of diversity in all aspects of the team.
Art by Jake Volz.