The Doppler Quarterly Special Edition 2019

A powerful technique to achieve continuous executive alignment is to build a “Cloud Change Canvas.” A change canvas is based on the business model canvas concept, a tool created in the lean startup universe. A change canvas provides a one-stop view of the business’ urgencies, success metrics, target conditions, visions, investments and desired wins/benefits driving its cloud journey. Canvas authoring is a group activity — very visual, with a powerful style to engage participation. It’s like a business case, but it’s lightweight to create and easy to evolve as the team builds and learns. In summary, the exercise forces your leadership team to take ownership and sustain involvement in the cloud transformation process. Key Activity 2: Assess your current cloud maturity and set direction Most likely you are not starting from scratch. Even if you are, the fact remains that you can leverage the learnings of others who have cloud transitioned before you. One com- mon approach is to conduct a cloud maturity assessment. If you are familiar with CMMI Institute's Service Capability Maturity Model, then you are familiar with the tactic. Service Operations Customer / Service Strategy Service Portfolio & Design Vendors / Partners Financial / Cost Mgmt Securit Comp 5 — Continuous Service Optimization Enable Optimal Cloud Operations Full Lifecycle Management of Cloud Service Cost, Quality & Compliance SLAs / SLOs Continuous Cost Optimization Secure, Auditabl 4 — Self Serve - End to End App/Infra Automation End to End Visibility Application Landscape Templates Provider Roadmaps Integrated Total Cost of Operations Application Control F 3 — Self-Serve - Infrastructure as Code Application Aligned Services Workload Profile Cloud Templates Real Time Service Reporting Total Cost of Service Infrastructu Control F 2 — Partially Automated Application Oriented Cloud Services Initial Standard Cloud Services Vendor Management Framework Real Time Cost Integration Cloud Contr Oper Heavy Lifting per Application One off Service Design Disparate Contracts Manage to Budget 1 — Manually Engineered Complian Docu Figure 3: Cloud Tr 20 | THE DOPPLER | SPECIAL EDITION 2019

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