Need to get a better understanding on key decisions you need to make when you start to implement your cloud adoption strategy? Join the AWS Cloud Journey Simulation workshop which leverages a use case to let the C-levels and Senior Executives to experiment their decisions to address a number of events. You will come to understand how your decisions can impact the results of your cloud journey as compared to other options. CJS is one of the best-rated learning process and most participants find it a rewarding process for the time they invest! Wilfred Wah AWS Professional Services

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Wilfred Wah
Advisory Practice
AWS Professional Services
AWS Cloud Journey Simulation Workshop
November 2018

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Executive Summary
The AWS Cloud Adoption Journey Simulation is an experiential workshop that enables
an organization’s leadership team to go through a representative use case of a
company’s cloud adoption journey. The workshop breaks the core group into distinct
teams and each team progresses through the simulation as if they were leading the
use case organization’s cloud adoption journey by, for example, connecting IT and
business goals to their cloud strategy and roadmap, make corresponding investments
to meet the goals, all the while trying to increase; IT Efficiency, Agility, Quality of
Service, and Innovation.
The goal of the workshop is to accelerate an organization’s cloud adoption by letting
them experience real-world impacts of a cloud journey given the operating model
changes they select to invest in. The workshop can be paired with identifying a
company’s associated cloud journey and helping establish their overall strategic
approach for operating in the cloud. This is a half day to full day event, depending on
how the workshop is paired with other strategic initiatives.

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Using the simulation to progress adoption
CUSTOMER CLOUD CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (COE)
AWS CLOUD ADOPTION FRAMEWORK DELIVERY KITS
PROJECT
FOUNDATION
MIGRATION
REINVENTION
CLOUD-NATIVE
RETIRE
TECH
DEBT
Value
Time
Discovery
• The simulation is broken
into 2 rounds with 4
activities in each round.
• Round 1 takes a customer
from Project to Foundation
• Round 2 takes a customer
from Foundation to
Migration
• These approaches match
some of the programs
AWS has put in place to
progress a customer and
includes best practices we
have seen at customers
Progressing the Phases of
Adoption

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Sample Customer Simulation Agenda
Start End Agenda
1:00 1:15 Welcome: Explain the Session
1:15 2:15 Simulation #1 – Cloud Foundation
2:15 2:45 Simulation #1 Feedback
2:45 3:00 Break
3:00 4:00 Simulation #2 – Cloud Migration
4:00 4:30 Simulation #2 Feedback
4:30 5:00 Next Step & Wrap

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Events, Options, Consequence Example
Options
Example
Event Example
Consequences Example

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The Simulation Tracker

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Simulation Room Engagement