Rapid Migration and Modernization Program (RaMP)

Why Migrate and modernize with Google Cloud RaMP? 

For any large-scale migration, we’ve found the following five best practices greatly increase chances of success. First, there needs to be a business case articulating the “why” that executives across business, IT, finance, security, and operations are aligned on. Second, there needs to be a learning plan tailored to each role so individuals can obtain new skills and neutralize the FUD accompanying changes to how they work. Third, there needs to be a “Cloud Center of Excellence” (CCoE) team that harvests best practices, sets up and maintains the landing zone, sets “principles” and blueprints for how teams will scale usage/migration, and drives the fourth and fifth best practices, which are good program governance and a well-defined set of goals or an OKR (objective and key results) to measure, inspect, and quickly triage progress. With RaMP, our goal is to bring our product portfolio and best practices together within a unified, holistic approach. One that helps customers build a business case and drive stakeholder alignment, assess and close gaps on their people, process, and technology readiness, disposition workloads into priority “migration waves” segmented by migration strategy, create a landing zone with adequate financial, security, and compliance controls, decide what tools to use, execute a training and enablement plan, establish a CCoE, set an OKR, pick the right partner(s), and relentlessly manage the migration. 

If you’re early in your journey, take advantage of our quick cloud capability assessment, which helps determine where you are in your cloud journey and how you can develop new competencies across your business, financial, and technology plans. Alternatively, if you know you’re heading to the cloud and need a detailed discovery report with recommendations and cost analysis based on your existing IT landscapes, then request one of our free assessments today.