Cloud Native Transformation

Interlude III. Second Attempt at Cloud Native

Jenny’s second wake-up call and WealthGrid’s attempts to reapproach their cloud migration from a more creative direction.

Jenny’s first wake-up call was that WealthGrid needed to take action now on making the move to the cloud. Her second is that, unfortunately, her effort to lead a cloud native transformation using a small internal team (working entirely on their own, and only part-time) simply isn’t working. It’s not getting them ready fast enough to handle the arrival of a disruptive new cloud-powered competitor.

The trouble, she realizes now, comes from treating their cloud migration as just another tech changeover. They ran this project the same way they always handled, say, moving to a new database. This was an approach, it now becomes apparent, that was destined to fail. Going cloud native, she understands at last, requires so much more than simply lifting and shifting WealthGrid’s existing systems to run on the cloud.

It’s fine, though. They may have lost some time, but Jenny has learned a few things from this first go-round. Her team has gained experience as well. She is confident that a second effort—one that has more resources, more people helping out, even a dedicated budget allotment—will go right and go quickly this time. Based on the chatter she has heard from upper management, she is further confident that WealthGrid’s executives will support it.

Jenny gets to work preparing a very significant plan, complete with technology ...