1. Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework Workshop
Lifecycle strategy
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2. Agenda Revisiting your cloud goals Revisiting your cloud outcomes
Aligning outcomes and benefits
Next steps

3. Process flow overview Revisit cloud strategy
Revisit cloud lifecycle roadmap
Roadmap
co-planning
Cloud goals
Cloud outcomes
Roadmap deliverable
Align with strategy
Identify measurable success
Identify new initiatives
Feed roadmap
Increase cloud returns through automation
Gain insights from our IP with data insights and machine learning
Facilitate Mergers and Acquisitions
Co-creation effort to define specific expected results from cloud goals
High-level initiative discovery to support YOUR outcomes. Co-creation effort during workshop
Microsoft offsite defines projects necessary to support defined strategy and updates “living” cloud lifecycle roadmap

4. Revisiting your cloud goals

5. Your cloud adoption lifecycle
Execute
Outcomes and Benefits Analysis
Optimize and Innovate
Cloud Strategy
Lifecycle Roadmap
Your cloud lifecycle should support continual improvement through periodic realignment with organizational strategy and evaluation of optimization and innovation opportunities – revisiting your goals periodically supports this lifecycle approach
Let’s evaluate the current cloud goals:
Where have we succeeded?
Where is there opportunity for better alignment?
Discuss any shifts in organizational strategy
Devise action plans and new goals to address above

6. Adoption goal and review
Adoption goal title
Description
Highlights
Lowlights
Status
Completed
On Track
Partially On Track
Not On Track

7. Adoption goal realignment plan
Adoption goal title
Description
Realignment plan
Please describe the plan to help address goals that are flagged as partially on track and not on track only

8. New goals Some example cloud goals
When discussing new goals lets keep in mind:
Alignment with organizational strategy – what are your new imperatives for the year? How can we map to them?
Innovation opportunities
Optimization opportunities
Goals should be large and overarching with traceability to organizational strategy
Some example cloud goals
Increase cloud returns through automation
Gain insights from our data with data insights and machine learning
Enhance our enterprise mobility capabilities
Connect our LOB assets to IoT services to improve business intelligence
Facilitate mergers and acquisitions through cloud adoption
Embrace DevOps throughout our people and processes

9. Cloud adoption goals Adoption goal title Description

10. Revisiting your cloud outcomes

11. Revisiting your cloud outcomes
Assessing your outcomes periodically against expected results is also a key part of supporting your cloud lifecycle approach. Let’s evaluate your current cloud outcomes:
Which have succeeded?
Where is there opportunity for improvement?
New outcomes and metrics
Devise action plans and new outcomes to address above
As a refresher, remember outcomes were:
Measurable results, mapped to goals, and not the same as projects

12. Previous cloud outcome
Outcome name
Description
Description of cloud outcome being revisited
Priority:
HIGH
MEDIUM
LOW
Benefits
Aligned adoption goals
Key performance indicators
Expected benefits that were documented with outcome
Goals that were aligned with cloud outcome
How success was going to be measured for the outcome

13. Cloud outcome review sheet
Highlights
Lowlights
Status
Completed (stop tracking)
On track
Partially on track
Action plan
Please describe the plan to help address outcomes that are flagged as partially on track and not on track
Not on track

14. New cloud outcome Outcome name Description Benefits
Here we will place a brief description of the outcome or service desired
Priority:
HIGH
MEDIUM
LOW
Benefits
Aligned adoption goals
Key performance indicators
Here we highlight the expected benefits
Here we highlight the adoption goals
Here we highlight how we intend to measure success of this outcome

15. New cloud outcome example
Cloud Workflow Automation
Description
Automate processes in our cloud workflow
Priority:
HIGH
Benefits
Aligned adoption goals
Key performance indicators
Reduce costs
Reduce time to value
Increase responsiveness
Increase efficiency
Increase our cloud returns through automation
Automate the following key costly processes in our cloud workflow: X Y Z

16. Aligning outcomes and benefits

17. Outcome and benefits diagram example
Automate key cloud processes
Outcome
Cloud goals
Key metrics
Increase cloud returns through automation
Reduce costs
Reduce time to value
Increase responsiveness
Increase efficiency

18. Outcome and benefits diagram template
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Outcome
Cloud adoption goals
Key benefits
Insert text here

19. Next steps

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