Hello everyone, my name is Nicolas David, I’m a Professional Services Consultant for AWS Public Sector and I’m based here in Bahrain. I’ve been with AWS in a few roles for the past 4 years almost.
Today, I’m here with Husain from Mumtalakat and we want to talk to you about your team, your skills and how you should prepare your team to tackle your migration to the cloud.
By quick show of hands, how many of you are AWS Certified today ? How many Associate level ? How many Professional level ? How many “All 5 Certified” ? Any “All 9 Certified” ?
Awesome ! Let’s get started !
However, let me ask you this question:
Can you think about what is the most valuable asset in your migration ?
*pick one to three answers in the audience and move on from there*
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The answer is very simple, your team.
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Starting a migration project requires a few things that we‘ll cover in this session, however one of the most important things is the Mission Statement and this needs to be backed by Executive Sponsorship.
Now the thing with Mission Statements, is that … *next slide*
Note: Executive Sponsor is responsible to the business for the success of the project.
If Mission Statements are done well, they provide Direction, an essential motivation factor for your teams. A realistic Mission Statement also gives the project a Clear Purpose.
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Aside from datacenters, a lot has changed in the past 10 to 12 years; technology of course with the rise of data on a scale never achieved before, methodologies to take upon extraordinary challenges and lastly people have changed. This is the focus that we will be talking in this session today. I see all of these new challenges as one and the same with technology as a vehicle to help moving forward in these areas: Not only the platform will change in your migration, but also the way you work to enable faster movement of your applications new functions & features to address your ever growing userbase.
I want to welcome on Stage Husain AlSaffar from Mumtalakat to discuss how Mumtalakat got their team through their migration.
The first question that I want to ask you is why did Mumtalakat migrate to AWS ?
As technology is changing …
To lead by example our Portfolio companies …
To improve security ..
Great mission statement. How much of your IT did you migrate to AWS ?
We are now running All-In AWS …
We got help from an AWS Partner …
We split the migration into stages …
We started with the easy wins ….
And we got excited
So you started with the easy wins, you got excited and then what happened ?
We moved the rest of our workloads …
We did it by ourselves with support from Partner ...
You migrated by yourself. Can we talk about the training, the certifications of your team to achieve this ?
We wanted to gain knowledge …
We needed to get certified … to gain more confidence
Today all members our team are certified …
We are now helping portfolio companies in their migrations …
Can you share with us the things that you feel worked for Mumtalakat and the things that didn’t ?
We involved Project Management …
We participated in various workshops …
We focused on zero downtime …
We missed application optimization for one of the systems then learned and implemented as a standard for all future migrations.
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