The Doppler Quarterly Winter 2018 | Page 67

Transitioning your cloud career — before you’re automated out of a job for good. The tsunami of technology disruption is far from over. As Uber and Airbnb have disrupted the taxi and hotel industries, the public cloud is disrupting the global IT industry. The disruption is so considerable, many of the long-standing job functions in IT will either be dramatically reduced or eliminated completely. The epicenter is in your backyard — enterprise IT — and unless you manage your career wisely, you will be on the outside looking in, wondering what the hell happened to your predictable, six-figure job. For the last four years, CTP has facilitated two- and three-day Cloud Adoption Workshops – a mashup of technology, organizational change and psychology – that focus on moving workloads to the public cloud. The workshops are chal- lenging and emotional, with lots of fear and confusion. Attendees want to know what’s going to happen to them. Rightfully so, their long-standing careers in IT are under serious attack from hyperscale cloud providers. Consider the following classic ente