go along . You can engage with an organization and get a project done or brought to a good place , and then in six months to a year , you can make the decision to double down or scale back your engagement .
Potential drawbacks ? Because you ’ re just borrowing , not keeping , them , once you give those resources back , you ’ ll have a hole to fill - either by building resources inside , or acquiring them on the open market . However , many partners offer opportunities to maintain their borrowed resources through managed services . CTP offers both compliance and cost controlled managed services to help fill these operational voids .
Another concern you will want to be careful of with borrowing resources is “ scope creep ” – where a cloud project grows over time and you no longer have clear visibility into how to rein it in . If you don ’ t have the resources on staff to manage the outside team , you can lose control of the project .
The Right Mix with both internal and external resources , and then partner with someone who has done it over and over again . “ In our case it was Cloud Technology Partners ,” said Vanguard ’ s CTO , Jeff Dowds . “ An outside partner who knows what they ’ re doing and has an approach to get to the public cloud , combined with some really strong external hiring of public cloud knowledgeable people , and then assimilating them with your own internal rock stars – that ’ s what ended up as the nucleus of our cloud engineering team .”
Some roles are more commoditized in nature and do not require paying premiums for outside skills . Other roles , such as a truly experienced and seasoned Cloud Architect , are worth the extra expense .
While there are benefits and tradeoffs to each approach , most enterprises will need to find the right mix that works for them . There is nothing more costly , in terms of time and expense , than undoing mistakes made early . Moving to the cloud is a huge investment , so making sure you have the team to successfully pull it off should be a top priority .
Vanguard , an investment management company , advises organizations to form their cloud dream team
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