Assess
The assessment phase serves as a diagnostic and planning step, helping organizations understand their current state and prepare for a move to a cloud environment. The assessment phase is followed by other phases that focus on deeper planning, actual cloud migration or deployment, and then ongoing management and optimization. The quality of work done in the assessment phase directly impacts the success of the entire cloud adoption journey. Key steps in an assessment phase are as follows:
- Cloud maturity assessment: This is a critical step, especially for organizations embarking on their first cloud initiative. As we discussed the various methods to evaluate and assess an organization’s cloud maturity, this step helps assess organizational readiness across various dimensions, such as skillset, culture, and processes.
- IT landscape assessment: Evaluating the current IT landscape across infrastructure, application, data, security, and compliance footprints is the...
