Cloud Native Architectures

Change and project management

As an organization undertakes its journey to the cloud, it must consider the processes that will be impacted, specifically change management and project management. These two important aspects to an IT operating model must be considered with the journey, and changes are usually required to existing policies on how they will be achieved in the cloud. A careful examination of the change management of many organizations will show that while extensive and mature, there are actually many processes in place to slow down the deployment of IT resources, impacting business velocity for the sake of risk mitigation. These processes were not created as a way to slow things down, but, over time, additional bureaucracy is ...