Guidelines and steps

To set the foundation:

• Design the team(s) responsible for mobilizing critical cloud resources (cross-functional leaders who are able to make day-to-day decisions quickly and efficiently).

• Define how the organization builds and implements their cloud strategy by designing teams for the future state of operations.

• Establish a dedicated team with single-threaded ownership and strong, visible, engaged executive sponsorship (this is not an IT project).

• Set functional areas to be managed throughout the migration journey.

• Start to establish a cloud governance model, set of standards, best practices, and guiding principles or tenets.

The AWS OCM 6-Point Framework and Essentials Toolkit provides a comprehensive kit of enablement tools to support your cloud adoption journey. Each box in the following illustration includes a set of relevant templates, guidelines, and supporting artifacts to enable your people acceleration efforts. When and how you use the material depends on a number of factors that are specific to your organization and your teams. The process is not likely to be linear in nature. In fact, because teams will be affected differently and at varying points in time, it’s important to customize and personalize the experience.