Prepare Your Team for Cloud Transformation

It is not uncommon to see a degree of resistance towards cloud transformation within the companies. When it comes to cloud transformation, the decisions taken might have huge effects on employees’ career paths, the conduct of business and even power structure within the company. Unsurprisingly, cloud transformation might even have adverse business results if planned or actualized poorly.

Here are some tips for you to prepare your teams for a cloud transformation journey.

Be explanatory.

Share your business objectives, reasons and your motivation about cloud transformation with your employees. Make sure that you explain the advantages of cloud briefly. Sharing the path that you have planned for the company will make your team feel that they are an important part of this change. In this way, you can encourage them to embrace this journey as well.

Training

Make sure that your team can get necessary essential training and feel confident about the future. You can prepare a one-day course for all employees that will cover core concepts and services of the cloud. Learning about cloud technologies will excite and encourage your employees about transformation and help them to adapt to the cloud faster.

Time and Experience

To get the most out of the cloud technology, you should place emphasis on company culture as well. Do not try to change company culture and structure immediately. Instead, give your team sufficient time to get used to the new system. For example, starting a new cloud workshop program within the company can give opportunity for hands-on experience and time to adjust cloud technologies according to organizational needs.

Migration Teams

Creating small teams for migration of your applications can speed up your transformation process. Let your team members be involved in the migration process too, so they will embrace this change. Involving your team in migration also helps you to ensure that organizational structure is maintained, and this helps employees to set right expectations from the cloud.

Migration teams should include members from,

• Development Team member, who has the knowledge about the application code.

• Security Team member, who has the knowledge of security issues and regulations of the environment.

• Infrastructure Team member, who has the knowledge about application infrastructure and how it works.

• Administrative Team member, who can take managerial decisions and speed up the transformation process from the top.

• Operations Team member, who is responsible for monitoring and maintaining the application.

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