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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ance, and compliance

Document Subject Matter experts

ams in most operating models. The following expands on the Cloud
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(SMEs) required to deliver on cloud adopti

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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 Governance maturity operations
Accountable Accountable Consulted Consulted Consulted
Informed Informed Accountable Accountable Accountable

cloud strategy cloud operations CCoE-cloud governance

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CCoE-cloud platform

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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
 Solution Platform Platform Platform
operations Governance 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

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CCoE-cloud automation

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

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

Business alignment Accountable

Solution delivery Consulted

Change management Accountable

Solution operations Consulted

Governance Consulted

Platform maturity Informed

Platform operations Informed

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

Solution Architects IT operations

Infrastructure implementers Outsource IT operations vendors
DevOps engineers Cloud service providers
Application developers Cloud-managed service providers
Data scientists Application-specific operations
Data or application platform specialists 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 governance Cloud platform team -
team ensures that cloud-adoption risks and risk Creation and support of
tolerance are properly evaluated and managed. your cloud platform or
The team identifies risks that can't be tolerated by landing zones
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 and
Business continuity and disaster recovery disaster recovery
Application owners within IT Application owners within
Finance owners IT

Informed Informed

Consulted Consulted
 Informed Informed

Consulted Consulted

Accountable Consulted

Consulted Accountable

Responsible Responsible
Informed Responsible
Cloud automation team - The Aligned cloud Training and Cert
primary duty of cloud automation is capability
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,

Informed cloud strategy PMP, PROSCI, DP900,
AI900

AZ900, AZ104, AZ303,

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

AZ900, AZ104, DP203,

Informed cloud operations
AZ204, AZ400

AZ900, AZ104, DP203,

Consulted CCoE-cloud governance
AZ204, AZ400, AZ500

AZ900, AZ104, DP203,

Responsible CCoE-cloud platform
AZ204, AZ400, AZ500

AZ900, AZ104, DP203,

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