Cloud Series: Change Management in the Cloud
Sunipro, LLC
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Along with the continued rise in digital transformation to cloud is the steady increase in multi-cloud adoptions. Allowing organizations to scale accordingly to fast-changing markets, their customers’ needs, and acquire resources quickly. With that, the cloud also informs on the need for organizations to take a step towards solid change management. Change management will allow an organization to define and follow best practices when undergoing the cloud transformation – managing risks and avoiding any pitfalls in the cloud journey.??
We discussed agility in cloud transformation in a previous installment of our Cloud Series and with that agility comes the opportunity to facilitate faster change processes. The on-demand burst of capacity allows you to quickly create environments with the required software to formulate a solution. Therefore, changes can be made in a few minutes rather than a few days. Such is the advantage of agility. Change management should be focused on enabling these processes and engaging in the capabilities the cloud brings -?develop appropriate change models.??
Constant experimentation, deployments and modifications is the name of the game and having a change model that does not provide support for this will lead to an unsustainable transformation.??
The cloud's ability to be flexible demands organizations to have flexible change management to reduce any disruptions or incidents to IT services. Traditional methods of facilitating change will simply not suffice in a high velocity environment. Constant experimentation, deployments and modifications is the name of the game and having a change model that does not provide support for this will lead to an unsustainable transformation.??