Overview

Spring is an open source runtime for java workloads used by 46% of all custom enterprise workloads. We wanted to leverage that market and bring it to Tanzu, our platform solution that enables companies to build and deploy software quickly and securely.

Application development organizations find their Spring applications lagging behind on Spring OSS updates resulting in those applications being outside of OSS support and with security vulnerabilities. Current tools help with aspects of the lagging upgrade issues, but they are not reliable enough to meet all the needs.

Problem Statement

How might we enable platform teams to perform automatic code refactoring across hundreds or thousands of repos to fix OSS vulnerabilities by upgrading the corresponding libraries and minimize the required manual work introduced by the breaking changes of those versions?

Coaching

As the design manager responsible for this project, I worked with the UX designer to help them improve their presentation skills.

I checked in with designer and had coaching sessions to help them decipher what they should start, continue, stop doing in their process.

Management

Ensured designer had what they needed to do their work.
Managed stakeholders and prioritization of the UX work - When more work was asked of designer, I led alignment meetings with PM and team to make sure we were investing designer time in the right priorities. Occasionally, I allocated another designer to additional work to make sure we met deadlines.

Providing Feedback

Provided feedback about design process and artifacts during 1:1s with designer.

Participated on stakeholder reviews, helped analyze feedback and made suggestions for improvements and next steps.

Designing

When designer was on parental leave, I led strategy work sessions to figure out North Star user flows.

Process

Discovery

Feedback from client engagements to help them with their lagging upgrade issues

The team created a free Health Assessment Reporting Tool that provided customers insights into their Spring applications. This tool served as a POC to get specific feedback about user needs around this process.

Competitive Analysis of current products trying to solve parts of the problem.

Learnings

Clients need to have a way to continuously upgrade their apps

Clients need to Increase the number of apps that are in compliance in terms of OSS and LTS timelines along with security vulnerability remediation

Clients need to grow the number of cloud native apps that could be deployed to a platform

Application Portfolio Manager

As an Application Portfolio Manager, I want to assess the applications in my portfolio to maintain compliance with evolving standards and modernize each app so that my applications are more resilient, easily moved to platforms as they evolve, and scalable with the needs of the business

Application Developer

As an Application Developer, I want to receive a line-by-line analysis with recommended remediations update my application’s source code so that I can ensure my application is always compliant and viable as compliance standards evolve

Roadmap

Now

Portfolio manager can add repositories to be continually scanned

Portfolio manager can see the results for previous scans

Portfolio manager can see how critical the vulnerabilities are

Portfolio manager can see the level of upgrades needed for their libraries

As an app developer I can see the details of my libraries vulnerabilities

As an app developers I can follow a plan to upgrade my libraries

Later

As an app developer I can run automated remediation jobs to upgrade my libraries based on user approval to AI/ML recommendations

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Ideation and validation of initial flows

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