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Onboarding Workloads

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

Walk

Run

Functional Activity

As someone in a Business/Product role, I will…

As someone in a Finance/FinOps role, I will…

As someone in an Engineering/Operations role, I will…

As someone in an Executive role, I will…

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.

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:

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Featured Resources

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