Phase 2: Ready – Prepare and invent - AWS Prescriptive Guidance

Phase 2: Ready – Prepare and invent

This phase focuses on leveraging and validating the high-level transformation strategy and roadmap by using experience-based mechanisms, and mobilizing teams to accelerate business planning, conduct experiments, initiate new ways of working, align people and operations to business objectives, deliver initial wins, and define a detailed transformation strategy and roadmap. It is illustrated in the following diagram.

Focus areas and outcomes of the Ready phase of enterprise transformations.

By the end of this phase, organizations establish their cloud leadership function and validate their strategies and roadmap. Teams are mobilized with new ways of working, business priorities are tested and validated, a cloud leadership function is established, the cloud operating model is determined, success patterns are identified, the FinOps language is designed, minimum lovable products (MLPs) or proofs of concept (PoCs) are developed, and digital culture begins to incrementally evolve. A validated transformation strategy and detailed roadmap are built.

Key activities:

  • Use experience-based mechanisms to enable product teams with an agile mindset and ways of working.

  • Validate the cloud operating model, and mobilize leaders and teams.

  • Develop readiness through experimentation, identify success patterns, and deliver initial wins.

  • Design and implement MLPs to prepare for success in scaling.

  • Use the Transformation Readiness Diagnostic tool to measure growth, and refine the strategy.

  • Define a detailed transformation plan and roadmap.