Definition
This capability is about establishing a cloud front door process to onboard brownfield and greenfield applications through financial viability and technical feasibility assessment criteria.
Maturity Assessment
Crawl
- Ad-hoc on-demand budgeting/requisition to onboard workloads to the cloud
Walk
- Budgeting process mandatory but not standardized across the Business Units / Product Teams. It considers all IT requested changes
Run
- Well-defined process and guidelines including both financial viability and technical feasibility for preparation of deploying new projects/applications or migrating existing workloads to the cloud
Functional Activity
As someone in a Business/Product role, I will…
- Optimize my product with new cloud capabilities to drive efficiency and agility
- Develop new use cases to further innovate on the cloud
As someone in a Finance/FinOps role, I will…
- Assess the financial viability of the workloads moving to the cloud
- Capture and track cloud value benefits realization
As someone in an Engineering/Operations role, I will…
- Assess the cloud suitability of the workloads moving to the cloud
- Review the operational readiness to support the workloads on the cloud
As someone in an Executive role, I will…
- Make informed decisions to prioritize workloads to move to the cloud
- Provide strategic directions to reinvest the savings obtained from the workloads migrated to the cloud back to the business initiatives
Measure(s) of Success & KPI
Measures of success are represented in the context of cloud costs and may include one or more key performance indicators ( KPI ), describe objectives with key results ( OKR ), and declare thresholds defining outliers or acceptable variance from forecasted trends.
- Measurement of cost efficiency through infrastructure savings, migration and support costs
- Operational resiliency improvement in service quality and security risk posture
- Decrease time to market by accelerating fluidity in product and service delivery
- Enable a culture of rapid experimentation to drive innovation and cloud transformation
- Embed true environmental and social sustainability across the organization
Inputs
Information used that contributes to the measure(s) of success listed above are organized across the following categories:
| Category | Input |
|---|---|
| Cost Efficiency | – Infrastructure cost – Support cost – Migration / implementation cost |
| Resiliency | – Service quality – Security posture – Operational stability |
| Velocity | – Developer productivity – Release frequency – Business agility |
| Innovation | – Return on innovation – Employee experience – Customer satisfaction |
| Sustainability | – Carbon footprint – Power usage effectiveness – Circular economy |
Get Involved
Get involved and contribute to the community by sharing your real world experiences related to this Capability in the form of a story or providing a playbook for how you have implemented best practices in your organization. Your real world experiences can be provided in the context of:
- one or more cloud providers
- the types of cloud services used (compute, storage, database, etc…)
- describe a combination of tooling, platform or vendor, and processes including KPIs
- the industry the organization belongs to
- the complexity of the organization (global enterprise, start-up, etc…)
- the [FinOps personas](https://www.finops.org/framework/personas/) involved / organizational roles
Join the conversation about this Capability in Slack . You can submit stories, how-tos and suggest improvements using one of the options for contributing here.
