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My main focus is to guide and enable my team to achieve greatness. It sounds like a cliche, but in order to strategize, plan and execute activities in a hugely complex and global organization, having the right people around you, creating an environment where talents grow and thrive are the key responsibility of any manager. I also need to continue upskill so I am able to comment, prioritize and communicate all activities we are involved in. This latter part is extremely important since the complex and everchanging IT-landscape requires insight into my own organization but also understanding and learning from others internal and external. One other key area is the stakeholders of my deliveries, across the organization, from senior VPs to developers who have various needs and questions, which requires strategy as well as my ability to talk tech.
Cloud Governance and the Untapped Power of Automation As one knows, there is no end to “governance” and one could establish processes and governance bodies to control everything, which probably would result in “death by bureaucracy”. So, the main recommendation is to first start to see where your organization is. Do you have the basic policies to manage the cloud platform? Who are your main stakeholders who could support your platform development? What are the main pain points your platform consumers are facing? What controls do you have in place to prevent, detect and react to anomalies? If you start by answering these questions and start outlining your own maturity journey, then beautiful things will happen. And remember, that internal audit, security organization, compliancy etc are a fantastic ally in order to drive changes which are needed. So don’t be shy when it comes about transparency of issues you see in your CCoE and ask these bodies for support. Each organization is of course different hence what brings the most value could be something that is completely natural in other companies. What I have seen in the past 10 years could fall into two categories: security/ compliance automation and governance/reporting. If security controls are set, then deploying applications within the defined confinement could be automated (say FW port openings) and that would greatly enhance developer experience. The other one is letting cloud resource owners know how the health of their environment is through automatic reports. FinOps, outof-box advice/recommendations for optimizations are huge insights that should automatically be forwarded/assigned to resource owners within the ITSM tool available in the organization. Throw in AI (say CoPilot) and you have a great tool to assess the recommendations, but also implement them quickly. One technical area is automated deployment (IaC, CI/ CD...), which of course have huge benefits for the developers but I would not call that area “overlooked”.Realizing the benefit in speed and being able to focus on coding rather than setup.exe would greatly enhance their experience.