Execution of deployment plan (Demo)

Introduction

One of the critical actions to be considered is documentation; the big thing to remember is to do what is documented. So we refer to the documentation, and we follow standard operating procedures. Cloud migration can be a challenging decision to gain buy-in for. It usually has winners and losers. People who lose will often keep trying to change the decision or go for their pound of flesh by waiting for things to go wrong and saying, “I told you so.”. Due diligence and transparency are the best counters.

Process

Every stage of the decision-making process should be communicated, and decisions should be made based on facts. Cloud-first means having a transparent process for selecting business applications by projects and programs. IT governance is essential regardless of whether we follow a cloud-first strategy or not.

In order to overcome this obstacle, several teams that should be collaborating on cloud-first and business application decisions, for example, PMOs, enterprise architects, application managers, and platforms experts, instead work in silos. By using a standard application inventory, they will work together more effectively.

The inventory provides them with information about the applications and the projects they target, the technologies they use, the business capabilities they support, and the organizations to which they are deployed. The impacts of ...