Benefits | Transformation Domains | Foundational Capabilities | Framework Matrix
The Cloud Adoption Framework leverages experience and best practices from across the university, and the industry to help transform and accelerate the transition to cloud through innovative use of cloud services. The framework provides organizational capabilities to support the successful transformation and transition to the cloud. The capabilities provide guidance and guardrails that if adopted, help improve outcomes. The capabilities are: Organization, People, Governance, Platform, Security and Operations. Your UBCIT cloud team will use the framework to ensure your expectations are aligned with your deliverables.
Benefits
Reduced Risk
Lowers risk profile by following an industry accepted framework that improves reliability, increases performance and delivers a secure service
Improved Governance
Provides centralized governance through a rich and easy to use toolset creating visibility across all cloud migrated application
Operational Efficiency
Manages operating cost using tools and processes that are built for cloud and improve the staff experience by providing innovative ways of delivering services
Transformation Domains
The process defined below is the industry accepted method of delivering large scale initiatives and is not specific to cloud:
Foundational Capabilities
Organization
Develop organizational support to optimize value with Cloud adoption
People
Development plans, training communication and change management
Governance
Managing and measuring resulting outcome
Platform
Develop, maintain and optimize solutions and services
Security
Cloud services align with organizational compliance requirements and security policies and controls
Operations
Manage cost, health, reliability, performance and incidents
Framework Matrix
| Stage | Goal | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evangelize the Cloud | |||
| Cloud Strategy | Defines the overall vision and direction for Cloud. | ||
| Change Management and Communication Plan | Develops a plan to support the university with the transition to cloud. Communicates overall vision and strategy for the cloud, along with the change management plan. | ||
Cloud Knowledge Centre
| Creates an internal task force whose responsibility is to manage the many different moving parts of the organization's transition to cloud. | ||
| Cloud Readiness Assessment Engagement and Plan | Evaluates the university's overall readiness to adopt and manage cloud effectively and create a plan to address areas of concern. | ||
| Assess Workforce and Build Skills | |||
| Strategic Workforce Plan | Defines the roles and responsibilities required. Assess current skills against need and create plan to close skills and staff gap. | ||
| Select Cloud Providers and Services | |||
Cloud RFSQ Request for supplier qualification | Pre-qualifies multiple cloud service providers, allowing the community to consume cloud services without having to go through the procurement process every time. Also, provides choices when selecting services as each service provider applies different treatment to the service they provide | ||
| Service Selection and Standardization | Pre-qualify and approve services that are often used by the university, and offer them as common catalogue items, shortening the time to market | ||
| Cloud Exit Plan | Defines how the organization can get out of a particular cloud decision in the event it doesn't work out as planned. An exit strategy is essential even if it may never be used. | ||
Define Governance Framework
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| Security, identity, and compliance management | Assess risk, privacy, identity and access management, encryption, application security and contingency planning | ||
| Financial Management | Defines cloud best practices, educates the community and supports the community in managing cost. Implements policies for cost controls, reporting and alerting. | ||
| Data Management | Implements standards and policies defined by the data architecture team. Defines how to manage the data lifecycle, data classification, encryption, access, storage and deletion. | ||
| Operations Management | Defines processes for service level management and reporting to ensure cloud resources deliver value. Defines processes that control where workloads are created in the cloud Defines how the state of services will be monitored and reported on | ||
| Performance and Availability Management | Monitor and manage performance across application and infrastructure to deliver efficient and expected levels of service | ||
| Asset and Configuration management | Implement standards through automated, controlled processes that define how cloud assets are configured and managed, mitigating risk to the organization. | ||
| Cloud Operating Model | |||
| Operating Model | Defines how value is delivered to the organization using people, process and technology. | ||
| Operations Plan | Outlines the activities and targets the service owner that will carry out to achieve the objectives as set out in the service plan. | ||