1. What Project Managers Need to Know About Cloud Computing Stacy Taylor President, Red Mountain Services stacy@red-mt.com

2. Stacy Taylor Background ▫Bachelors in Electrical and Computer Engineering ▫Masters in Engineering Management ▫Has played every role on a project and enjoyed every single one

3. PMs and Cloud Computing Why project managers need this in their skill set What is cloud computing Types of cloud computing projects and how to handle them Top mistakes in cloud computing projects

4. What Is Cloud Computing?

5. Who Cares About Cloud Computing? Means different things to different people ▫Consumers - all my data, all the time, on any device ▫CFO - Pay only for what we need when we need it ▫CIO - Outsource all or part of a data center, so we can focus on our business applications ▫COO - Geographically diverse data centers for built in business continuity ▫CEO – Isn’t that the thing my iPhone uses?

6. Why Should PMs Care? By 2015, 10% of IT security enterprise capabilities will be delivered in the cloud U.S. government will accommodate external cloud services Cloud traffic will grow from 39% in 2011 to 64% in 2016 By 2016, three out of five data center workloads will be processed in the cloud

7. Cirrus, Cumulus or Stratus? 3 rd party applications Migrating existing applications to the cloud Application development in the cloud

8. Whose Cloud Is it Anyway? Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Google App Engine Rackspace Cloud

9. Use of Cloud Computing Companies who found the silver lining ▫Netflix ▫SalesForce ▫Intercontinental Hotel ▫RehabCare Group

10. 3 rd Party Application Project A purchased application that runs on the cloud Don’t want to run on a cloud? You may have to rethink that. Watch out for version upgrades

11. But it Sounds so Soft and Fluffy There’s lighting in them there clouds ▫Data at rest ▫Data in transit ▫Having your data mingle with your competitors data

12. PM Takeaways for 3 rd Party Apps Security you took for granted when hosting now needs to be evaluated Availability you took for granted when hosting now needs to be evaluated ▫Cloud outages

13. PM Takeaways for 3 rd Party Apps Adjust your RFP solicitation Not structured in your solicitation? Ask a few questions of your stakeholders Software already bought before you got assigned?

14. Migration to Cloud Projects Migrating an existing system to a cloud environment All concerns from Type 1 plus some! ▫Selection of a cloud is not as easy as you think ▫Cloud vendors offer widely varying packages ▫Existing data transition 1st

15. Why Migrate? Highly variable usage Aging hardware On demand test environment that matches production Lower total cost of ownership ▫Latest and greatest always at your fingertips

16. What do PMs Need to Know? Evaluate if there is a preferred cloud vendor If not, cloud vendor selection will be part of your project Impacts to existing application support ▫Changes to build and deployment ▫Possible changes to configuration management ▫Possible changes to load and performance testing Use Online calculators help evaluate ROI for project

17. Online Calculator

18. Custom Application Development Everything from before plus ▫SSDLC – Secure Software Delivery Lifecycle ▫Determining Support Level Agreement ▫Load test metric collection ▫Security ▫Performance and Logging ▫Training for Development Team  Security  Configuration Management  Load and Performance Testing  Administration

19. More Terminology Buying a product that runs in the cloud is almost always SaaS (Software as a service) The lure to migrate is usually Iaas (Infrastructure as a Service) For new app dev, you're looking at IaaS and PaaS (Platform as a Service)

20. Top Mistakes Not taking advantage of cost optimization (Example: Prepay) Unintentionally getting married to a cloud Buying too big of a server Not accounting for cloud outages Not evaluating security requirements prior to delivery Underestimating the time and effort it takes to make cloud adoption successful

21. About Red Mountain Services Project Management Consulting IT Consulting Staff Augmentation Training Feel free to e-mail me at stacy@red-mt.com with feedback, questions or for more informationstacy@red-mt.com