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AWS CAF action plans will help you prepare for the transition to the cloud technology stack. The journey begins with your leadership team considering six aspects of the CAF. Each aspect is used to create workflows that identify gaps in existing skills and processes, and these are recorded as inputs. This input forms the basis for creating an AWS CAF action plan that will manage changes as your organization transitions to the cloud technology stack.
AWS Cloud Adoption Framework – Action Plan Overview
The action plan is a key part of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework . The process of developing the action plan helps to identify tasks and issues arising from the implementation of cloud technologies. Once created, the action plan will provide your organization with proactive solutions and help avoid pitfalls when transitioning to a cloud infrastructure.
AWS Cloud Adoption Framework and its Aspects
Successful transitions to cloud infrastructure determine which organizational skills need to be enhanced and which need to be learned. The AWS CAF supports and guides your organization in creating an effective cloud technology implementation plan to address existing gaps. It contains recommendations on six key aspects common to organizations: business component, people, governance, platform, security, and operations. Each aspect is organized with specific audiences and roles in mind:
Common Roles in the Business Aspect: business managers, financial managers, budget holders, strategic stakeholders.
Common Roles in the People Aspect: HR management, service personnel managers, HR managers.
Common Roles in the Governance Aspect: managing director, department heads, project managers, systems architects, business analysts, investment managers.
Common Roles in the Platform Aspect: Chief Technology Officer, IT managers, solution architects.
Common Roles in the Security Aspect: Chief Information Security Officer, information security managers, information security analysts.
Common Roles in the Operations Aspect: executive IT managers, IT support managers.
For example, the business aspect helps business managers, financial managers, budget holders, and strategic stakeholders understand how certain aspects of their roles in the organization will change as a result of implementing cloud technologies.
The action plan you create is based on six aspects.
Each aspect of the AWS CAF contains capabilities that belong to one or more functionally involved stakeholders. As you examine each aspect, you begin to identify how stakeholders will enhance their skills and processes for successful cloud infrastructure implementation. This occurs in four stages:
- Identify who in your organization is critical to the implementation of cloud technologies;
- Identify questions and issues that may slow down or hinder the implementation of cloud technologies for stakeholders;
- Identify skills or processes that need improvement to address these questions and issues;
- Create an action plan to address the identified skill or process gaps.
Here’s an example of a completed action plan:
Source: habr.com
