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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 • Migrate more applications, gradually testing more controls and automation • Add new process and people integraton on a small scale • Be flexible to pivot based on pain points and feedback • P  rovide the means for self adoption (Pull change!) • Federate tools and processes experts / knowledge to migrate at scale • P  ush change away from the center • S  upport people to adopt new org changes on their own with training and reskilling programs • B  uild practice communities Time Figure 5: The power of MVC’s — as you learn, you scale! 24 | THE DOPPLER | SPECIAL EDITION 2019 • Modernize career tracks, job tracks and incentives to new capability • B  uild external awareness and credibility to boost workforce supply • C  loud enabled agility and organizational adoptability becomes the new norm