Figure 82 in my book, “The Great Cloud Migration”, depicts the execution strategy for your Cloud Migration Strategy.
* The Crawl Phase or “Scouts” phase – “In this phase, your primary goal is to initiate a set of pilots (at least three of them) to help you resolve key unknowns.”
* The Walk Phase or “Vanguard” phase – “at this phase, and armed with the information gathered from your scouts, you are ready to pick up the pace. The key strategic purpose of the Vanguard element of the force is to move fast and seize key terrain and then have the skills and firepower to hold that terrain until the main force can arrive.”
* The Run phase or “Main Army” phase – “the entire organization is now ready for the architectural transformation to this new level of robust, scalable and agile computing”.