Skills readiness for cloud migration

During a cloud migration, it's likely that employees, as well as some incumbent systems integration partners or managed services partners, will need to develop new skills to be effective during migration efforts.

There are four distinct processes that are completed iteratively in the Migrate methodology. The following sections align the necessary skills for those processes with references to two prerequisites for skilling resources.

Prerequisites skilling resources

Implementation of the Migrate methodology builds on the skills acquired during planning and preparing a migration journey.

Assess skilling resources

The following tools can aid the team in execution of assess activities:

During assess processes, architects will design solutions for each workload. The following skilling resources help prepare architects for these tasks:

Migrate skilling resources

The following tutorial can prepare the team for migration activities:

Optimize and promote process changes

The following tools can help the team optimize resources and promote to production:

Secure and manage process changes

The following tools can help the team find ways to secure and manage migrated assets:

Next steps

Return to the migration best practices checklist to ensure your migration method is fully aligned.