Cloud center of excellence (CCoE) functions - Cloud Adoption Framework

Summary

Understand the functions of a cloud center of excellence (CCoE), including the source, scope, and deliverables.

Highlights

A cloud center of excellence (CCoE) is a function that helps organizations balance speed and stability while they pursue this objective. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gy9vxqkytwmhfe8q728480jh))

A CCoE model requires collaboration between each of the following resources:
• Cloud adoption (solution architects)
• Cloud strategy (the program and project managers)
• Cloud governance
• Cloud platform
• Cloud automation ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gy9vy7nq0ss98xdz9af58ne6))

Without a CCoE approach, IT tends to focus on providing control and central responsibility, acting like the stoplights at an intersection. When the CCoE is successful, IT's role resembles a roundabout at an intersection where the focus is on freedom and delegated responsibility ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gya5t9nk23ndg0anykpt857e))

The objective of the CCoE is to:
• Help build a modern IT organization by using agile approaches to capture and implement business requirements.
• Use reusable deployment packages that align with security, compliance, and management policies.
• Maintain a functional Azure platform in alignment with operational procedures.
• Review and approve the use of cloud-native tools.
• Standardize and automate commonly needed platform components and solutions over time. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gya5tz2q2rjhq5v1t96hne54))

IT leadership is the first and most obvious stakeholder ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gya605a3wa2bpqyjxh04y8e7))

Less obvious is the need for business stakeholders ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gya61f4fr8brc9fexa6w7j1h))

During the first six to nine months of CCoE efforts, we recommend that business stakeholders meet monthly with IT leadership and the CCoE ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gya62p5hmk6skpv2mfm4pj9n))

Those guardrails help to guide team activities and to delegate responsibilities to the participants in migration or innovation efforts. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gybzj8y72kf3fzt2nfhswwk8))