How Do I Prepare My Team? Building on Existing Strengths!

Cloud adoption involves growing an organization's technology, processes, and people. Hear from the AWS Professional Services team on assessments, training, and frameworks that are available as foundations for developing your staff. In the talk, Mumtalakat will share how they built on these elements to move past organizational silos, expand existing skill sets and experience, and spread enthusiasm for their migration initiative. We will explain how to incorporate peer-to-peer sharing sessions, certification preparation, customer proofs of concept, and other elements to accelerate your cloud initiatives.

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1. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Nicolas David Consultant, Public Sector MEA Husain Alsaffar Senior Associate, Mumtalakat How Do I Prepare My Team? Building on Existing Strengths!
2. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Agenda Mission Statement Methodology 10 things that work Q&A
3. What is the most valuable asset in your migration ? © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
4. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. What is the most valuable asset in your migration ?
5. Mission Statement © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
6. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Mission Statement Do: • Provides Direction • What do we do? • How do we do it? • Clear Purpose • Whom do we do it for? • What value are we bringing?
7. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Mission Statement Don’t: • Be Unrealistic • Has a tendency to demotivate your team • Leads to bad decisions • Waste your team’s time • Your team has more important things to do
8. Methodology © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
9. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Methodology • From the industry • From AWS
10. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Methodology DevOps Agile Lean + +
11. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Methodology = Most benefits !
12. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Methodology DevOps Culture and practice unifying Development (Dev) & IT Operations (Ops). Strong advocate of Automation, from code to production with infrastructure management, in close alignment with business objectives.
13. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Methodology Agile Collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams. Strong Advocate of adaptive planning, rapid/flexible response to change and continuous improvement.
14. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Methodology Lean Creating value, continuous improvement, and eliminating waste as a sustainable data/system integration practice. • Eliminate waste • Amplify learning • Decide as late as possible • Deliver as fast as possible • Empower the team • Build integrity in • See the whole
15. AWS Training and Certification © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Free Digital Training Learn with 150+ free, self-paced digital courses on AWS fundamentals Classroom Training Deepen your technical skills and learn from an accredited AWS instructor AWS Certification Validate your expertise with an industry-recognized credential
16. AWS Training and Certification © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cloud Practitioner path Architect path Developer path Operations path
17. AWS Training and Certification © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
18. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Husain Alsaffar Senior Associate, Mumtalakat
19. 10 Things That Work © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
20. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Ten Things That Work • It’s a people project • Seed the knowledge and Enthusiasm • Get some help • Cloud acceleration team • Peer-to-Peer
21. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Ten Things That Work • Keep it fun • Learn by doing - Immersive • Fill the gaps, allow some choice • Focus on customer, show not tell • Dip your toe, then jump in
22. Q&A © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
23. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Contacts Consultant, WWPS MEA, AWS davinico@amazon.com.bh @nuage_ninja Nicolas David Senior Associate, Mumtalakat husain.alsaffar@bmhc.bh @mumtalakat Husain Alsaffar
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25. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Thank you !