The CCoE phases
Each phase of the CCoE is mapped to the :AWS Cloud Adoption
Framework (AWS CAF)
The AWS CAF recommends four iterative and incremental cloud transformation phases:
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Envision phase – Demonstrating how the cloud will help accelerate your business outcomes
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Align phase – Identifying capability gaps and creating strategies to improve your cloud readiness, ensure stakeholder alignment, and facilitate relevant organizational change-management activities
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Launch phase – Delivering pilot initiatives in production and on demonstrating incremental business value
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Scale phase – Expanding production pilots and business value to the targeted scale and ensuring that the business benefits associated with your cloud investments are realized and sustained
The following diagram shows CCoE phases that are mapped to different phases of the AWS CAF.
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Advisory phase – In this phase, the central CCoE team focuses on gaining organizational awareness and alignment on building a business through AWS. It serves as an early adopter for cloud projects, and it identifies and promotes the value of these engagements within the involved entities. To secure long-term goals for the AWS practice, the central team removes preliminary blockers and identifies early needs such as headcount, skills, and material resources. The Advisory CCoE phase relates to the Envision and Align phases in the AWS CAF.
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Catalyst phase – The central CCoE team becomes the AWS champion. It's proactive in driving how the AWS part of the business is run in the context of the organization's overall business strategy, and it supports the other entities with technical developments, AWS enablement, and go-to-market strategies. Its main goals will be defined by the challenges that prompted the formation of the CCoE, which can be different for your business:
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For AWS customers: To accelerate the migration and modernization of your IT estate to secure AWS Cloud based products and services
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For AWS Partners: To help your organization reach a profitable status for AWS practices so that they benefit your overall business—for example, by boosting sales and reducing operational costs
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For AWS customers and AWS Partners: To ensure that the different entities can operate without conflicting interests or processes
The Catalyst CCoE phase relates to the Launch phase in the AWS CAF.
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Consolidation phase – Independent practices under the centralized CCoE have reached a volume of AWS projects that makes a positive impact on their profitability, and are self-sufficient in the delivery of such projects. The CCoE shifts to a supporting role, performing tasks that continue to benefit from economies of scale, scope, and knowledge. setting organization standards and best practices, and providing curated training material. To develop specialized expertise (for example, in cloud security and machine learning), consider allocating at least 20 percent of the time on learning and experimenting with new services and new features. The Consolidation CCoE phase relates to the Scale phase in the AWS CAF.
You can analyze your current maturity level, and based on your goals, you can decide where you want to see your organization in short-term and long-term cycles.
