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technology compliance and standards issues, level of integration/
interface required of cloud solution with existing systems, and qual-
ity of project management.
2. Benefits risk: entails risk of not achieving expected business ben-
efits such as lack of business-IT alignment, lack of alignment with
technical standards and architectures, lack of appropriate security
compliance, lack of credibility and measurability of business out-
comes, change management requirements, and senior management
involvement.
There are various tools and techniques to help with risk assessment. A risk
classification matrix, followed by a tiered probability-impact matrix analy-
sis, that is, identify risk elements in terms of their impact and probability
being low, medium, or high, serves as a useful technique. Similarly, a risk
scorecard and risk matrix can illustrate the risk, quantified impact, and miti-
gation measures in a structured and traceable manner.
20.4.4 Go Live
The main objective of go-live plan is supporting cloud business value deliv-
ery through creation of a viable cloud adoption plan and recommendations.
The key activities include assessing the dependencies, costs, and benefits of
the various realization projects. The prioritized list of projects will form the
basis of the detailed go-live plan.
Some of the key deliverables of this phase include the following:
1. Addressing/establishing management framework capability for
cloud transformation aligned with enterprise's strategic planning,
operations management, performance management, program and
project management, and governance frameworks.
2. Value planning: Identifying business value drivers and assign-
ing them to all relevant activities and projects. This will serve as a
benchmark for performance management and monitoring. Analysis
and assignment of strategic fit, critical success factors, business key
performance indicators, cloud performance indicator, process per-
formance indicators, return on investment, etc., will form a set of
criteria and benchmarks to assess business value realization of the
cloud project.
3. Cost-benefit analysis and validation using TCO, ROI, and risk mod-
els assigned to each relevant project.
4. Resource allocation, coordination and scheduling, and capability
planning to establish the resource requirements and operational
delivery implications of the project.