Planning and Executing Cloud Computing Migration Projects

Learn to design, measure and defend your organisation's approach to cloud migration projects.

📍 Abu Dhabi🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points

Course Overview

Stakeholders withdraw support for cloud migration projects quietly before they withdraw it formally. Projects involving the project and portfolio delivery discipline are rarely late all at once; they are late a day at a time. Benchmarking exercises repeatedly place the practice within project and portfolio delivery among the areas with the widest performance spread. This programme builds cloud migration projects from first principles, without padding and without omitting what matters. Ambition around the project and portfolio delivery capability outruns capacity unless the sequencing is deliberate. Work is grounded in real cases drawn from this area of project and portfolio delivery, which each participant adapts to conditions in their own organisation. The outcome is a practitioner who can hold a position on cloud migration projects and revise it on evidence. It is designed for mixed groups, so that this strand of project and portfolio delivery is examined from more than one functional angle. The final session converts the week's work on the project and portfolio delivery discipline into commitments with owners and dates.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Manage dependencies between cloud migration projects and other initiatives.

02

Design a training and briefing approach that sustains competence in cloud migration projects.

03

Control change to cloud migration projects so every variation has a price and a decision.

04

Choose the delivery approach for cloud migration projects — predictive, adaptive or hybrid — deliberately.

05

Define the scope and boundaries of cloud migration projects so that responsibility for it is unambiguous.

06

Align cloud migration projects with the wider objectives of the project rather than optimising it in isolation.

07

Define the scope of cloud migration projects precisely, including what is explicitly excluded.

Who Should Attend

01

Those responsible for briefing external stakeholders on cloud migration projects.

02

Technical leads delivering work packages within cloud migration projects.

03

Training and development staff building internal capability in cloud migration projects.

04

Programme and portfolio managers overseeing cloud migration projects.

05

Planners and schedulers building the timeline for cloud migration projects.

06

Client and stakeholder representatives monitoring cloud migration projects.

Course Modules

01

Cloud migration projects: procurement, contracts and suppliers

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The risks to cloud migration projects nobody wants to raise

  • Estimate the resource cloud migration projects requires to run as designed.
  • Map stakeholders of cloud migration projects by influence and current level of support.
  • Build the competence framework that supports cloud migration projects.
  • Agree the escalation threshold for cloud migration projects in advance.

Session 2Where cloud migration projects typically breaks, and why

  • Estimate cloud migration projects using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
  • Set escalation thresholds for cloud migration projects that work out of hours.
  • Set the review interval for cloud migration projects and who attends.
  • Hold a lessons session on cloud migration projects while memory is accurate.
02

Cloud migration projects: scope definition and exclusions

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Estimating cloud migration projects without anchoring on the answer wanted

  • Review at each gate whether cloud migration projects should continue at all.
  • Measure progress on cloud migration projects by value earned, not tasks ticked.
  • Confirm that those complying with cloud migration projects understand why it exists.
  • Set the change control process for cloud migration projects and require cost and time impact.

Session 2What has to be agreed before work on cloud migration projects starts

  • Write the scope statement for cloud migration projects including explicit exclusions.
  • Define how the benefit from cloud migration projects will be measured after closure.
  • Build reporting on cloud migration projects that surfaces problems while they are small.
  • Define the decision gates for cloud migration projects and what evidence each requires.
03

Cloud migration projects: estimating cost and effort

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The paperwork for cloud migration projects that is actually needed

  • Identify single points of dependency in cloud migration projects and reduce them.
  • Record what was learned when cloud migration projects did not go as planned.
  • Agree the indicators that will show whether cloud migration projects is improving.
  • Close out actions on cloud migration projects rather than leaving them open indefinitely.

Session 2Keeping stakeholders of cloud migration projects genuinely supportive

  • Check that cloud migration projects still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
  • Archive the decision record for cloud migration projects so successors understand it.
  • Confirm that contractual obligations around cloud migration projects are understood.
  • Map the handovers in cloud migration projects between functions and secure them.
04

Cloud migration projects: schedule, critical path and realistic duration

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Building a schedule for cloud migration projects with a real critical path

  • Establish the boundary of cloud migration projects and record what sits outside it.
  • Record the rationale for each significant choice made about cloud migration projects.
  • Manage supplier performance on cloud migration projects against contract, not goodwill.
  • Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to cloud migration projects.

Session 2Pricing every change to cloud migration projects

  • Register the risks to cloud migration projects with owner, probability and impact.
  • Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of cloud migration projects.
  • Compare resource demand from cloud migration projects against other commitments.
  • Agree what will be standardised in cloud migration projects and what will not.

Choose the package that suits you

Silver Package

At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

Gold Package

At least 3 people

USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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