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isfy early customers, and to provide feedback for future development. Time box your-
self to a six- to ten week implementation window. This ensures you keep the requirements
minimal, while turbo charging the learning and buy-in. Make sure to migrate a real-life
workload, an application that tests the boundaries of acceptable business risk criteria.
Making it count motivates the organization to do it correctly. No pain, no gain, as the
adage goes. Once you complete your initial MVC, continue to add workloads and capa-
bilities to it to test additional controls and services. You will not always get it right the
first time, so be ready to pivot if needed. Learn to tolerate failure. Trust in yourself to
always respond quickly.
Summary
The six key activities I’ve outlined above are intended to help you deliver a scalable
cloud transformation. At the end of the day, they propose to manage your three most
common program risks:
• Managing the people resistance to change
• Building the right solution
• Institutionalizing the change beyond the program timeline
Weaving in modern day lean and agile practices provides the change management
method to break up a very large problem domain into manageable pieces. This article
provides a practical reference guide for you to now plan your long range cloud
transformation.
Written by Paul Barnhill, VP, Principal Architect and DevOPs Strategist, HPE
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