App Advisor

SITUATION

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.