Basic - Strategy, Govern, and Plan
This CAF Hackathon enables attendees to understand and get familiar on how the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure (CAF) can be applied with their customers. This hackathon walks through the Define Strategy and Plan phases of the CAF to support attendees in leading a client engagement that is considering moving their digital assets to Azure.
This CAF Hackathon simulates a real-world scenario where a company has multiple datacenters with hundreds of line-of-business applications. The company is looking at migrating and modernizing their current digital estate to Microsoft’s cloud platform. Since the company has a global presence, they need support in optimizing their current solutions and processes so that their multiple business groups can focus on their core business.
During the hackathon, attendees will focus on learning how to leverage the CAF in guiding a customer through starting on a successful cloud adoption journey. Attendees will have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience by creating a business case, building a cloud adoption plan, and leveraging multiple cloud assessment tools to support a customer with justifying their cloud adoption.
By the end of the CAF Hackathon, attendees will have built a cloud adoption plan that they can use to present to a customer’s C-Suite to justify adopting the cloud. The purpose of this exercise is to provide you with the tools and understanding that will complement the conversations attendees may be having with their customers.
- Understand how the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure can help you in your conversations with your customers.
- Increase awareness on how you can influence your customers and attract the right stakeholders.
- Remove any barriers for a successful cloud adoption in the early stages of a customer’s cloud adoption journey.
- Help guide decisions on to achieve outlined business outcomes through a clear and actionable plan.
- Learn how the tools in the CAF can help you build and improve the experience of a customer in their cloud journey.
- Define Strategy – Identify a customer’s motivations, business outcomes, and business justification when considering moving to the cloud.
- Plan – Understand the current state of the customer by rationalizing their digital estate and gaining alignment by bringing together the right people who will be responsible for cloud adoption. This information will drive a cloud adoption plan of a first non-business critical workload.
- Governance – Create policies to identify and mitigate business risks. These policies will drive consistency across cloud adoption efforts resulting in a well-managed cloud environment.
Read thru the Customer Scenario and get familiar with the company Contoso Land Surveying.
In this challenge you will learn about the Define Strategy phase from the Cloud Adoption Framework. You will get familiar and understand that there are many reasons and motivations for a cloud adoption, and identifying and understanding them is key in developing an effective cloud adoption plan for the customer. Every customer has different priorities, processes, and organizational structure that need to be evaluated in order to guarantee a successful cloud journey. You will use this information to start designing your business case and the presentation you will be presenting to the customer’s board.
Learning Objectives:
- Document motivations and benefits for moving to the cloud.
- Establish clear business outcomes, by ket stakeholders or decision-makers, that align with your motivations.
- Define your business case by capturing a business justification through a financial model to project business impact.
In this challenge you will have the opportunity to review the organization and understand how they can build a governance framework.
Learning objectives:
- High-level governance structure
- Skills readiness path; capabilities required for managing their cloud environment
- Cloud adoption team verified (RACI)
This challenge focuses on preparing an assessment of the anticipated cloud costs. You will be provided with a spreadsheet of the customer’s real estate.
Learning objectives:
- Take inventory of your digital estate
- Understanding cloud costs
This challenge simulates a real-world conversation with your stakeholder’s leadership team. Here, you will present your case and justify why they should adopt Azure.