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A typical training program is a four phase life cycle:
• Assess — Determine existing skill gaps, learning objectives and certification
tracks
• Communicate — Broadcast curriculum tracks, knowledge sharing opportunities
and expert networks
• Celebrate — Reward and recognize those that participate
• Measure — Establish online portals and dashboards to report training participa-
tion and to track cloud specialists
Key Activity 6: Start building cloud and demonstrating value fast
This is the execution portion of the transformation, where you start to iterate and incre-
ment your demonstrable cloud solution. As opposed to a design-then-build “Big-Bang”
technology project, the more successful path is to break the problem into small changes.
This is where you introduce the Minimal Viable Cloud (MVC) methodology. An MVC is
derived from the lean startup community and their Minimal Viable Product (MVP) con-
cept. The approach is to build a cloud implementation with just enough features to sat-
Cloud Capability
MVC Self Serve
MVC Pilots
Quick Wins
• Gather a team of
early adopters
• Migrate a low risk
cloud friendly app
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applications, gradually
testing more controls
and automation
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people integraton on a
small scale
• Be flexible to pivot
based on pain points
and feedback
• P
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for self adoption
(Pull change!)
• Federate tools and
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Figure 5: The power of MVC’s — as you learn, you scale!
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• Modernize career
tracks, job tracks and
incentives to new
capability
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awareness and
credibility to boost
workforce supply
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