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It is now important to identify a management structure for how to effectively handle a project's cloud migration. Since the field is new and developing, there are few guidelines and best practices available. A coalition of leading industry organizations (including: Intel, Chevron, Cisco, The Boston Consultancy Company, Ernst & Young and Fujitsu), the non-profit sector, and academia have built and tested a life cycle for the structured management of cloud migration projects to overcome this shortcoming.

This chapter outlines the cloud life cycle development process, how the cloud lifespan aligns with the IT-Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF), and why a life cycle strategy has been implemented.

Methodology Of Concept

In order to merge leading research theory with the best organizational practice, the Innovation Value Center consortium uses an open innovation process of partnership that involves academia and industry in academic study to advance strategies for economic value and innovation management of information technologies. A design process with specified evaluation stages and development initiatives based on the principles of Design Science Research (DSR) advocated by Hevner et al. (2004) was used to establish the life cycle. The strategy adopted a comparable design framework used within the IT-CMF to build a maturity model for Sustainable ICT (Donnellan et al., 2011).

Why Does the Cycle of Life Work?

The cloud life cycle applies tested and recorded concepts of project management that most IT and business managers know. It breaks down the project into separate, manageable phases that allow the business to collect the accurate information before moving to the next step to make a choice.

The life cycle guarantees sufficient pre-planning so that the right stakeholders are identified and that the market impacts are adequately understood, handled, and monitored. For example, it helps an organization to determine the correct resources to migrate to the cloud and to establish strategies for the effects on workers directly and indirectly impacted. It also offers a framework for creating a repository of information and best practices, with its lack of competence and recommended practice, to fill the existing vacuum produced by this modern use of innovation.

The Cloud Cycle's Four Phases

  • Architect: The first phase begins with the cloud project's examination and preparation. Usually, in order to determine whether they can go forward with a full-scale project, a company would devote only a limited amount of high-level resources.
  • Engage: The second stage selects the supplier's service that will provide the cloud platform necessary. At this point, many companies decide to stop because the necessary cloud facilities are not available, or since there is no cloud service provider that they trust to provide the cloud services they need.
  • Operate: The third stage is the deployment of the cloud service and its day-to-day operation.
  • Refresh: The ongoing review of cloud services is the fourth level.

References

  • Cullen, S., Seddon, P., & Wilcox, L. (2005). Managing Outsourcing, The Life Cycle Imperative. MIS Quarterly Executive.
  • Donnellan, B., Sheridan, C., & Curry, E. (2011). A Capability Maturity Framework for Sustainable Information and Communication Technology. IEEE IT Professional.
  • Hevner, A. R., March, S. T., Park, J., & Ram, S. (2004). Design Science in Information Systems Research. MIS Quarterly, 28.
  • Lindner, M. A., McDonald, F., Conway, G., & Curry, E. (2011). Understanding Cloud Requirements – A Supply Chain Life Cycle Approach. Second International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization (Cloud Computing 2011).

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