I’ve no shortage of pub stories about IT managers coming into work on a Monday morning and finding they’ve no cloud platform to log in to because the cloud provider was hit by a meteorite, or some other disaster, and they didn’t plan ahead. Such cautionary tales can be valuable, not to mention entertaining. But it’s probably more productive to look at how successful “cloud people” manage to sidestep such disasters.
Perhaps the most important habit is that of engineering soft landings. When I look back over some of the cloud migration projects I’ve seen, I’m put in mind of a cat climbing an apple tree, with a clear ambition ahead but no idea how it might get down again. When the project reaches the appropriate stage, it is imagined, there…
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