Define high level alignment of required capabilities across the org structure

Capability Description
Cloud Adoption Deliver technical solutions
Cloud Strategy Align technical change to business needs
Cloud Operations Support and operate adopted solutions
Cloud Center of Excellence Improve quality, speed, and resiliency of adoption
Cloud Governance Manage risk, drive consistency, governance, and compliance
Cloud Platform Operate and mature the platform
Cloud Automation Accelerate adoption and innovation

Define Cloud Adoption Team(s) alignment

Cloud Adoption Team(s): There are often multiple cloud adoption teams in most operating models. The following e
Adoption Teams' accountability

List of workloads, data centers, or portfolios

Name of each team being adopted by this team
Cloud Adoption Team Focus area
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of adoption
ance, and compliance

Document Subject Matter experts

ams in most operating models. The following expands on the Cloud
In addition to core capability alignment, th
(SMEs) required to deliver on cloud adopti
Leader responsible for the Email address to use for
outcomes associated with this questions for that
adoption effort accountable leader
Accountable Leader Leader's email address Capability
Cloud Strategy
Cloud Strategy
Cloud Governance
Cloud Governance
Cloud Platform
Cloud Platform
Cloud Platform
Cloud Platform
Cloud Operations
Cloud Operations
Cloud Adoption
Cloud Adoption
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core capability alignment, there will be a number of Subject Matter Experts

ed to deliver on cloud adoption and cloud operations

Expertise Expert Email address

Finance
Project Management
IT Security
IT Governance
Network
Identity
Virtualization
Disaster Recovery
IT Operations
Application Owner
Project Lead(s)
Architect(s)
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Business
Solution delivery alignment
Cloud adoption team Accountable Accountable
Cloud governance team Consulted Informed

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Accountable: The one person or team to be held accountable for results and outcomes
Responsible: Any people or teams who are responsible for contributing to the results and outcome
Consulted: People or teams who should be consulted prior to changes being implemented
Informed: People or teams who should be informed about changes
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management operations e maturity operations
Accountable Accountable Consulted Consulted Consulted
Informed Informed Accountable Accountable Accountable

cloud strategy cloud operations CCoE-cloud governance

CCoE-cloud platform
CCoE-cloud platform

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sible for contributing to the results and outcomes
ulted prior to changes being implemented
med about changes
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automation
Informed
Accountable

CCoE-cloud automation
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Business Change
Solution delivery alignment management
Cloud strategy team Consulted Accountable Accountable
Cloud adoption team Accountable Consulted Responsible
Cloud operations team Consulted Consulted Responsible
Cloud governance team Consulted Informed Informed
Cloud platform team Consulted Informed Informed
Cloud automation team Consulted Informed Informed

Aligned cloud capability cloud adoption cloud strategy cloud strategy

Accountable: The one person or team to be held accountable for results and outcomes
Responsible: Any people or teams who are responsible for contributing to the results and outcome
Consulted: People or teams who should be consulted prior to changes being implemented
Informed: People or teams who should be informed about changes
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operations e maturity operations automation
Consulted Consulted Informed Informed Informed
Consulted Informed Informed Informed Informed
Accountable Consulted Informed Accountable Consulted
Consulted Accountable Consulted Responsible Informed
Consulted Consulted Accountable Responsible Responsible
Informed Consulted Responsible Responsible Accountable

cloud operations CCoE-cloud governance

CCoE-cloud platform
CCoE-cloud platform
CCoE-cloud automation

nd outcomes
the results and outcomes
eing implemented
 Cloud strategy team - The Cloud
Strategy Team is responsible for
leading the cloud adoption within your
organization, supporting all business
outcomes, people and processes
Team and key
changes and technical projects
accountability
identified within this plan

Exec Sponsor
CDO
IT/Infra Lead
Finance
Line of business
Human resources
Operations
Enterprise architecture
IT infrastructure
Skills/Roles
Application groups
Project managers (often with
agile project management
experience)

Business
Accountable
alignment

Solution delivery Consulted

Change
Accountable
management

Solution
Consulted
operations

Governance Consulted

Platform maturity Informed

Platform
Informed
operations
Platform
Informed
automation
Cloud adoption team - Cloud adoption Cloud operations team -
teams are the modern-day equivalent of Focus on delivering maximum
technical implementation teams or project workload performance and
teams. The nature of the cloud might minimum business
require more fluid team structures. interruptions within an
agreed-upon operations
budget

Solution Architects IT operations

Infrastructure implementers Outsource IT operations
DevOps engineers vendors
Application developers Cloud service providers
Data scientists Cloud-managed service
Data or application platform specialists providers
Application-specific
operations teams
Business application
operations teams
DevOps teams

Consulted Consulted

Accountable Consulted
Responsible Responsible

Consulted Accountable

Informed Consulted

Informed Informed

Informed Accountable
Informed Consulted
Cloud governance team - A cloud Cloud platform team
governance team ensures that cloud- - Creation and support
adoption risks and risk tolerance are of your cloud platform
properly evaluated and managed. The team or landing zones
identifies risks that can't be tolerated by the
business, and it converts risks into
governing corporate policies

IT governance Enterprise architecture

Enterprise architecture IT operations
Security IT governance
IT operations IT infrastructure
IT infrastructure Networking
Networking Identity
Identity Virtualization
Virtualization Business continuity
Business continuity and disaster recovery and disaster recovery
Application owners within IT Application owners
Finance owners within IT

Informed Informed

Consulted Consulted
 Informed Informed

Consulted Consulted

Accountable Consulted

Consulted Accountable

Responsible Responsible
Informed Responsible
Cloud automation team - Aligned cloud Training and Cert
The primary duty of cloud capability
automation is to own and
advance the solution catalog.
The solution catalog is a
collection of prebuilt solutions
or automation templates

DevOps engineers
Developers with DevOps and
infrastructure expertise
IT engineers with DevOps and
automation expertise

AZ900, TOGAF,
PMBOK, PMP,
Informed cloud strategy
PROSCI, DP900,
AI900

AZ900, AZ104,
Consulted cloud adoption
AZ303, AZ304
 AZ900, AZ104,
TOGAF, PMBOK, PMP,
Informed cloud strategy
PROSC, DP900,
AI900

AZ900, AZ104,
Informed cloud operations DP203, AZ204,
AZ400

AZ900, AZ104,
Consulted CCoE-cloud governanceDP203, AZ204,
AZ400, AZ500

AZ900, AZ104,
Responsible CCoE-cloud platform DP203, AZ204,
AZ400, AZ500

AZ900, AZ104,
Responsible CCoE-cloud platform DP203, AZ204,
AZ400, AZ500
 AZ900, AZ104,
Accountable CCoE-cloud automation DP203, AZ204,
AZ400
Deliverables

Review and provide feedback on business outcomes and

financial models.
Aid in establishing clear motivations for cloud adoption that
align with corporate objectives.
Define relevant learning metrics that clearly communicate
progress toward business outcomes.
Understand business risks introduced by the plan,
represent the business's tolerance for risk.
Review and approve the rationalization of the digital
estate.

Execute the rationalization of the digital estate.

Review, validate, and advance the prioritized migration
backlog.
Begin execution of the first workload as a learning
opportunity. Build and maintain the adoption landing zone
in conjunction with governance requirements.
Execute the technical tasks outlined in the sprint backlogs.
Oversee change management processes.
Manage the release and sprint backlogs.

Maintain asset and workload inventory

Monitor performance of workloads
Maintain operational compliance
Protect workloads and associated assets
Recover assets if there is performance degradation or
business interruption
Mature functionality of core platforms
Continuously improve workload performance
Improve budgetary and design requirements of workloads
to fit commitments to the business

Balance competing forces of transformation and risk

mitigation.
Ensures that the cloud migration team is aware of data and
asset classification, as well as architecture guidelines that
govern adoption.
Works with the cloud center of excellence to apply
automated approaches to governing cloud environments.
Understand business risks introduced during each release.
Represent the business's tolerance for risk.
Aid in the incremental improvement of policy and
compliance requirements.

Continuously improve the platform.

Keep up with new innovations in the cloud platform.
Bring new cloud functionality to support business value
creation.
Suggest self-service solutions.
Ensure solutions meet existing governance and compliance
requirements.
Create and validate deployment of platform architecture.
Review release plans for sources of new platform
requirements.

Build and maintain the cloud platform to support solutions.

Define and implement the platform architecture.
Operate and manage the cloud platform.
Curate or develop solutions based on the prioritized
backlog.
Ensure solutions align to platform requirements.
Ensure solutions are consistently applied and meet existing
governance and compliance requirements.
Create and validate solutions in the catalog.
Monitor adoption plans and progress against the prioritized
migration backlog.
Identify opportunities to accelerate cloud adoption, reduce
effort through automation, and improve security, stability,
and consistency.
Prioritize a backlog of solutions for the solution catalog that
delivers the most value given other strategic inputs.
Sample Azure Tools, CAF Templates and
Assessments

Strategy and Plan Template. Strategic Migration

Assessment and Readiness Tool, Cloud journey tracker.
Azure Migrate fpr Assessment, Movere, Third party tools
like Cloudamize, UnifyCloud, CAST from our partners

Azure Migrate, Cloud adoption plan generator, CAF

Migration landing zone blueprint, Terraform modules,
Terraform registry, Datacenter migration discovery
checklist, Migration templates, Microsoft Azure Well-
Architected Framework/Review. Azure Architecture
Centre - Reference Architectures, Design Principles,
Azure Migration Guide, Azure Innovation guide
Best practices source code

CAF Foundation blueprint, Governance benchmark assessment,

Governance discipline template, Cost Management discipline
template, Deployment Acceleration discipline template, Identity
Baseline discipline template, Resource Consistency discipline
template, Security Baseline discipline template, Azure Security
Benchmark, Azure governance visualizer, Governance Benchmark
Tool
Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework,Azure
Advisor Score, Landing Zone Templates

Azure Advisor, Operations management workbook,

Azure Monitor, Azure Sentinel
Deployment templates