The Cloud Strategy Master Class

Hi everyone! Welcome to the Cloud Strategy Master Class! Did you know that:

Organizations that don't have a formal cloud strategy tend to overspend on cloud by 40%

Having a formal cloud strategy can help organizations to save money and ensure that their cloud spending aligns with their business goals. This is particularly important in today's rapidly changing business environment, where cloud technologies are playing an increasingly important role in driving innovation and growth. However, writing a formal cloud strategy is not easy and can be time consuming!

I want to help! Over the past year, I have been hard at work building the cloud strategy master class. I want to teach you everything I know about cloud strategy. You will learn how to develop, document, and implement an enterprise-grade cloud adoption strategy. I will make sure you use all the best practices I have learned over the years and avoid all the pitfalls so that you can complete your task successfully and efficiently!

This course was developed to prepare IT leaders and Tech Professionals for the 2023 job market opportunities in cloud. With over 5 hours of content. This is the only course you need to learn how to develop and implement a cloud strategy This course is without a doubt the most comprehensive and effective on the market. Here's why:

• Taught by an instructor who has reviewed thousands of cloud strategy documents for organizations of all sizes.

• This is the only cloud strategy course that I am aware of that walks you through a structured a methodical approach on developing and implementing your cloud strategy.

• Offers you Word and PowerPoint Templates and fully written examples of each section of the document

• Offers you effective tools that you can use immediately in your cloud strategy projects.

• I will do my best to keep this course updated on a regular basis with new content, new lectures and where applicable new templates and tools.

This is a course designed to help you tackle your cloud strategy projects on day one of taking on the role of cloud champion within your organization. You will have all the necessary knowledge to develop the strategy, to socialize it and to engage the entire organization in the process.

Throughout the cloud master class, we cover a ton of topics with varying degrees of depth depending on relevance to developing and implementing an enterprise cloud strategy including:

• Cloud Strategy

• Cloud Adoption Framework

• Exit Strategy

• Cloud Center of Excellence

• Cloud Architecture

• Cloud Engineering

• Workload Assessment

• CASB

• Cloud Governance

• Multicloud

• Hybrid Cloud

• Hybrid IT

• Private Cloud

• Public Cloud

• Cloud Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Cloud Business Drivers

• Cloud Business Outcomes

• Account Governance

• Security as code

• Secure IaaS and PaaS with CNAP

• IAM Strategy to Integrate with Cloud

• Cloud-First

• Opportunistic Cloud

This course is also unique in the way that it is structured and presented. We will be documenting and building the cloud strategy document together so that by the end of the course, you have a completed document or a template that you can then use to develop your organization’s unique cloud strategy. I've incorporated everything I learned in my years of advising clients on cloud strategy to make this course more effective and more engaging. The course includes:

• Lectures

• Write-Alongs

• Slides

• Microsoft Word and PowerPoint Templates

• Other Templates and Tools

We will keep this course fresh with new content on a regular basis. You can expect section 2 lectures to begin showing up in the spring of 2023 and section 3 lectures will show up starting June 2023. This way, you always have something you are learning when you open the course!

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. I got into this industry because I love working with people and helping students learn. Sign up today and see how fun, exciting, and rewarding cloud strategy can be!

What you’ll learn

• Who are the stakeholders that need to participate in the cloud strategy creation?

• What are the roles of each stakeholder?

• How to write an effective cloud strategy executive summary?

• What does the executive structure look like?

• What are examples of good and bad executive summaries.

• How to identify business drivers?

• What does good business drivers look like vs bad business drivers?

• Why are business outcomes important?

• What is the difference between business outcomes and business drivers?

• Why do you need an exit strategy? Why does it need to be in the cloud strategy document?

• What is the difference between an exit strategy and an exit plan?

• What are good success metrics to measure your cloud strategy against?

• Why do you need a cloud adoption framework?

• What are the different components of a cloud adoption framework?

• What are common mistakes that organizations have made with cloud strategy?

• Why is it important to be in the same page as far as cloud terminology is concerned?

• What is your cloud adoption approach?

• How to use a RACI matrix to hold people responsible and account.

• And much much more!

Are there any course requirements or prerequisites?

• Have a good understanding of cloud computing.

• Be ready to learn an insane amount of awesome stuff.

• Prepare to document a real cloud strategy document!

Who this course is for:

• This course is for anyone who wants to learn how to develop and implement an enterprise class cloud strategy.

• It's perfect for cloud or enterprise architects, cloud business managers or anyone responsible for crafting their organization’s cloud strategy.

• IT leaders looking for a structured approach to developing and implementing their organization’s cloud strategy.

• Sales and Marketing professionals looking to have more advanced conversations with their customers.

• Cloud engineers that are aspiring to become cloud architects.

• If you want to take ONE COURSE to learn everything you need to know about cloud strategy, take this course.

Join me on this interesting journey!