Joe Bradley presents a largely non-technical session on insights into the journey to the cloud, including context, influences, planning and approach considerations.

2. ENABLING YOUR CLOUD – Principles and Pitfalls

3. Agenda
• Context
• Principles
• Mythology
• Pitfalls
• Frameworks

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Context
• Journey to cloud
• Industry guidance?
• Blogs, think pieces
• Common experience

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Polls
• Cloud continuum
• Targeted cloud benefits
• Your best and worst experiences

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• Where are you on the cloud adoption continuum?
Context Poll
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
No way, this
doesn’t work
for my business
Thinking about
it in the odd
lunchtime
Dabbling Got a strategy,
starting
Making
progress,
seeing results
Well down the
track, achieving
measureable
benefits
We’re floating
baby

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Anecdotal strategies
“Let’s dip our toe in and see what sticks.”
“Let’s think about this, take our time, know all we can and then take action.”
“Our IT model is unique, our cloud solution needs to be designed to perfectly
match those needs.”
“We need to get from here to the cloud asap.”
“We have to form a big picture view of desirable current and future business
outcomes, think of the possibilities, work out what in the cloud works for us,
assess our capability to deliver, plan to the degree that gives my organisation
comfort, get moving in a fail-fast way. We turn this into a cycle and modify our
plan as lessons are learned.”

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Anecdotal strategies
“Let’s dip our toe in and see what sticks.”
“Let’s think about this, take our time, know all we can and then take action.”
“Our IT model is unique, our cloud solution needs to be designed to perfectly
match those needs.”
“We need to get from here to the cloud asap.”
“We have to form a big picture view of desirable current and future business
outcomes, think of the possibilities, work out what in the cloud works for us,
assess our capability to deliver, plan to the degree that gives my
organisation comfort, get moving in a fail-fast way. We turn this into a cycle
and modify our plan as lessons are learned.”
Dipstick
Deluded
From a sap
Sounds
about right
Think, take no action

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• What do we mean by cloud?
• Is it the right thing for my organisation?
• What is the degree of cloud that is right for us?
• How do we get there, is there best practice?
• What should I be doing, what should I be watching
out for?
Questions for today

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NIST* example
• Consumer view
• Ecosystem view
• Types of cloud
• Characteristics of cloud
Key concepts
* US National Institute of Standards and Technology, Information Technology Laboratory
Cloud Computing Reference Architecture

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Other elements
Theme:
This all needs to be applied to your business, what’s the plan?
Types of cloud
• Public
• Private
• Community
• Hybrid
Essential characteristics
• On-demand, self service
• Broad network access
• Resource pooling
• Rapid elasticity
• Measured service

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Principles
• Understand key business drivers
• Define your financial context
• Get used to non-IT factors
• Configure not customise
• Know your targeted cloud benefits
Principle

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• Targeted business problem/advantage/model
• Transformation
• User enablement/engagement/empowerment
• Cost
• Risk
• Workload assessment
Factors
• Understand key business drivers
• Define your financial context
• Get used to non-IT factors
• Configure not customise
• Know your targeted cloud benefits
Principle

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• Financial model – opex/capex
• Investment cycle complexities
• Key business reporting metrics
• Assets/Leases/Depreciation
• Hidden costs – positive and negative
• Business case metrics
• What can you eliminate as a result
• Understand key business drivers
• Define your financial context
• Get used to non-IT factors
• Configure not customise
• Know your targeted cloud benefits
Principle Factors

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• Both Strategy and Change Management needed
• Culture of change, must be led
• Business engagement/ownership/readiness
• Desire for transformation
• Compromise
• Comms and training is not a one-off
• Understand key business drivers
• Define your financial context
• Get used to non-IT factors
• Configure not customise
• Know your targeted cloud benefits
Principle Factors

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• 80/20
• Momentum not perfection
• Have confidence but do your due diligence
• Avoid making it “just so”
• Does not eliminate the need for planning!
• Understand key business drivers
• Define your financial context
• Get used to non-IT factors
• Configure not customise
• Know your targeted cloud benefits
Principle Factors

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Poll
• Choose 3 top benefits for you
• Suggest anything that is missing
• Understand key business drivers
• Define your financial context
• Get used to non-IT factors
• Configure not customise
• Know your targeted cloud benefits
Principle Factors

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Cloud Benefits - Poll
1. Key cloud characteristics*
2. Software currency/futureproof
3. No capex
4. Collaboration
5. Mobility
6. Security
7. Competitive advantage
8. Green
9. Cost savings/cost effective
10. Ease of use
11. Free up IT staff
12. DR
* = Flexibility, Agility, Scalability, Capacity
• Choose 3 top benefits for you
• Suggest anything that is missing

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Common Perception
Principles vs Myths
• Cloud = simplification
• Cloud = cost savings
• Cloud = product
• Cloud = cookie cutter
• Cloud = massive communications cost
Experience
• No, it’s just different
• Maybe, but single focus limits value
• No, cloud = model
• Maybe, but not for an individual business
• Maybe, can also be viewed as an enabler

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Pitfalls
• Being too slow or resistant
• Going straight for your achievers before
your enablers
• Lift & shift
• Ignoring the possibilities
• Just let it run
Pitfall

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• Making it an IT thing
• Shadow-IT
• Guerilla-IT
• Information islands
• Being too slow or resistant
• Going straight for your achievers before
your enablers
• Lift & shift
• Ignoring the possibilities
• Just let it run
Pitfall Factors

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• Governance: Executive commitment to &
Board understanding of change
• Risk Assessment & Mitigations: security;
ability to deliver; business ability to accept;
reality of 80/20
• Future Mode of Operation, staff capability
• Licencing and consumption translation
• Networking/Identity/Security/Management
• Being too slow or resistant
• Going straight for your achievers before
your enablers
• Lift & shift
• Ignoring the possibilities
• Just let it run
Pitfall Factors

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• Transfer existing issues to the new place
• Ignore potential for improvement
• Perpetuates operational practices
• Prevents spring-clean
• Missed opportunity
• Being too slow or resistant
• Going straight for your achievers before
your enablers
• Lift & shift
• Ignoring the possibilities
• Just let it run
Pitfall Factors

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• Learn the capabilities
• Seek out industry peers and support
• Don’t rule out what has always been really
hard
• What’s the business wishlist that has
previously been off the table
• Challenge your business to make leaps of
change
• Being too slow or resistant
• Going straight for your achievers before
your enablers
• Lift & shift
• Ignoring the possibilities
• Just let it run
Pitfall Factors

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• Cost management/optimisation eg. wind up
and down with calendar
• Prevent proliferation
• Decommission
• Review traditional management practices
• Being too slow or resistant
• Going straight for your achievers before
your enablers
• Lift & shift
• Ignoring the possibilities
• Just let it run
Pitfall Factors

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Insights
Reminder of final poll
1. What is the single best thing you or your
organisation has done in relation to cloud?
2. What is the single biggest lesson you or your
organisation has had in relation to cloud?

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Intergen
Practical example
• Several key workloads in the cloud that align with some core benefits:
• We don’t run and manage the software or the platform
• We pay a monthly fee
• We get software updates some of which are useful some not
• We retain strong knowledge and expertise about the application of the
systems
• There will be more in time

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Relatively early days
Frameworks (1)
• Traditional ones don’t really fit
• “Just enough” concept
• What can help?
ITIL TOGAF PMI SOA
Prince2 SDLC OSS
Waterfall Agile
SCRUM …

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Frameworks (2)
• NIST –
US National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Information Technology Laboratory
Cloud Computing Reference Architecture
Now with ISO update
• To paraphrase Microsoft: AIANISM
Applications and Integration AFTER
Network, Identity, Security, Management

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Future Frameworks (1)
Workload assessment
Hybrid design
Active capability alignment
Transformational goals
Enablement of users
Vigorous financial control
Engagement of business
Risk mitigation
WHATEVER

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Future Frameworks (2)
Risk assessment
Operational change
Framework & Plan
Leadership
Management design
Active business commitment
Optimisation

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Future Frameworks (3)
Workload assessment
Transformational goals
Financial model

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Where to from here?
“We have to form a big picture view of desirable current
and future business outcomes, think of the possibilities,
work out what in the cloud works for us, assess our
capability to deliver, plan to the degree that gives my
organisation comfort, get moving in a fail-fast way.
We turn this into a cycle and modify our plan as lessons
are learned.”