People: skills, culture, change, and leadership

This workstream is critical to establishing migration readiness and running a migration at scale. The impact of a cloud migration will be felt across an entire organization and will significantly affect the organizational culture. Additionally, your organizational culture will impact your journey to the cloud. These cultural implications, your organization’s receptivity to change, prior change successes and failures, organizational communication patterns, organizational structure, and existing employee training and enablement strategies are all important elements of building a successful approach to migration. To be prepared for an enterprise migration, you must have a critical mass of people with production AWS experience, established operational processes. You must also have a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) dedicated to mobilizing the appropriate resources and leading the organization through the many organizational and business transformation challenges presented over the course of a large-scale migration effort.

Objectives

• Design the teams responsible for mobilizing critical cloud resources

• 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

• 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

• Use the AWS OCM 6-Point Framework and Essentials Toolkit, which provides a comprehensive kit of enablement tools to support your cloud adoption journey

Outcomes

• Change management risk document

• Identification of high-level change impacts (by role and by major process)

• Mapping of key stakeholders

• Communication messaging strategy and platform

• Initial communication plan and messaging matrix

• Change management work plan (initial)

• Organizational acceleration charter

• People adoption/acceleration team structure (documented and onboarded)

• Definition of organizational acceleration goals and objectives

• Future state staffing model (target organization structure)

• Change risk scorecard (risk management)

• Leadership alignment document

• Stakeholder report cadence (stakeholder assessment)

• Change area impact analysis, stakeholder-based assessment, and change impact findings and mitigation recommendations

• Organizational readiness assessment report

• Change strategy

• Communication strategy

• Engagement strategy

• Training strategy

• Risk mitigation strategy

• Change acceleration sponsorship roadmap

How-to guide

• Accelerating cloud adoption through culture, change, and leadership