>> Hey everybody, stay tuned today where I'm talking to
Wayne about building your cloud adoption plan.
He's going to be taking me through how to use
Azure DevOps templates to do that.
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>> Welcome to the Azure Enablement Show.
In the show, we're having
technical conversations with Microsoft experts about some of
the questions or concerns that you may
have within your cloud adoption journey.
Now in previous episodes of the show,
we talked about the Cloud Adoption Framework and how we
can help accelerate your cloud adoption journey.
In today's episode, I'm welcoming back Wayne,
who is the Cloud Adoption lead for the US,
and he's going to be helping me dive into planning
your cloud adoption and some of the templates
and resources that can help you build that plan.
Welcome back to the show Wayne, it's good to have you here.
>> Hey, Sarah. Thank you for having me back.
>> No worries. Now, in the previous episode,
you talked about some of the templates and resources that we
have available to help build that cloud adoption plan.
I'm hoping today you're going to help me dive deeper into some of
those Azure DevOps templates
that I've heard people mentioned as well.
Is that possible?
>> Absolutely. I'm a huge fan of what we've done in this space.
I think just hearing from customers,
they're looking for direction, they are looking for guidance,
they're looking for consistency,
and I think just having to build some of
those through these DevOps templates has
been really very useful for them to
be able to understand how to approach certain projects.
Everything from planning through
to different products that they are going to deploy,
through to specific projects.
There's just so much depth and then I'm happy to jump
in and this can show you what we have.
>> Awesome, I learn by seeing, Wayne.
So if you can show me the templates, that would be awesome.
>> Yeah, absolutely. If you can see my screen,
I jumped into the Cloud Adoption Framework site.
Just for reference, we've got all these
plugged in underneath the various tools.
If you jump in and you look at
their strategy and plan template under strategy,
you've actually got a ready govern ADO template.
We've got a bunch of other templates that are in
place as well that we've done for governance.
We've actually got some migration templates
that are in place and deployment templates.
I'll show you where all those are.
The team has actually built a really cool tool,
that when you jump in, go into it,
you will actually be able to go and actually
select the various templates.
Everything from just immediate little projects
where you may want to kick off,
say something like a smart hotel or clinic app
into DevOps Labs and
some learning content that we've got available there.
There're some community-based templates
that have been built out as well.
Then we've got a bunch that we've actually surfaced up through
the adoption framework just with
various teams that have been building them.
Think about these templates as
a set of projects with all the various work items in them.
I could go in and say, hey,
I got a project around building out a modern data warehouse.
Select the template, select
the organization that I want to go
and deploy it into play which would be mine.
I'm going to give us
a name and I'm going to call it Sarah Lean Project,
and let's hit that and go ''Create.''
That will actually run and deploy it into
my own existing environment.
I've actually already done this,
whilest I'm not going to sit and watch
this but you see these projects are
not deployed into your Azure ADO environment.
I've got a whole series of them that I've been working on.
We will go through and actually
take a look at the knowledge mining
one just for context as we go through it.
So really, really powerful way to be able to quickly take
a series of these projects and actually get them deployed.
Now, when I go in and look at the Boards,
I'll get to see my backlog of work.
Within this backlog of work for this particular project,
you can see we've got everything from how do we go and do
Knowledge Mining Solution planning
through to the actual implementation.
If I expanding all of them out,
you'll see we've got everything from doing readiness.
I wish I go and find some tutorials
around learning on some of the core technologies,
they then be part of this particular project.
If I'd jump into that,
I'll be able to go in and see, hey,
I've actually got these links
that are taking me directly back into
the Docs content and the tutorial content
that we've got sitting on the Microsoft Learn platform.
We also go in and we start to surface
up content around the adoption plan.
What's the importance of connecting back to your CCOE?
We talk about your landing zone.
When you think about your landing zone,
obviously interscale is our reference architecture,
and best practice links into how to get into
that set of assets sitting on the Docs content as well.
Similarly, as you go through it,
you're looking at, hey, I now need
to think about my data source design.
Well, relational data, we've got content into there as well.
The beauty about all of these things as I look at this,
we've got lots of great content sitting on docs today.
But this is not just curating all that into projects and
into work items that organizations can actually go and follow up.
I could quite easily turn on and say,
hey, for this particular feature planning for the platform,
I'm going to actually go and assign that
to specific individuals roles in
my organization that may need to go and pick up on
that set of work.
So you could take these projects and actually
really start to systematically walk through.
Now we've got a lot of depth in these projects.
You may find that
not all these work items are going to be necessary for you.
Naturally, if you are not interested in monitoring,
you can just go and clean up that piece and just delete
that user story or that feature.
Some of the projects that we're building
actually have code associated to them.
You'll see we've actually done this
full-learn Retail Recommender and it's
a solution accelerator for a retail entity.
That is if you wanted to go and on your commerce website,
add in some analytics and a recommendation engine.
Well, now if you go into the backlog and you look at the Boards,
and I expand that one out,
you'll see we've actually got a lot of this
content sitting in GitHub.
You can actually go and download
the data which we're referring to.
We actually go and talk through connecting into the GitHub repo,
where the actual code and the assets reside.
You can pull it back in.
Same thing, just step by step taking you through
this journey of building
out these particular workloads in these particular environments.
I'm a big fan, love it.
We continue to build them out and you'll
see a whole bunch of new projects coming down the line as well.
>> That's pretty awesome because I think
I'm probably guilty or associating
Azure DevOps with source control version in CICD pipelines.
Able to use that as a project management tool
almost is pretty awesome, Wayne.
But thinking about it,
not everybody will have adopted Azure DevOps,
and maybe isn't using that as their project management tool,
what do they do if they don't
want to use Azure DevOps for planning?
Is there other ways can we plug it into
other project management tools for them?
>> Yeah. These projects,
you can take them and actually,
once you've got those templates,
you can actually put them out to a CSV.
Once you've got them in the CSV,
you can then bring it into one of your other work item tools.
Excel Project can connect into DevOps as well.
If you had a free organization that gets stood up,
you could actually deploy it they,
and pull it up into project and you've actually can
pull those templates into those tools.
So yeah, you can absolutely take that
into CSVs and then if you are using
Jira or some other work item tool, you could put it into that.
>> Awesome. That demo generator that you pulled up,
Wayne, where can I go and get that?
Is there easy link to go?
>> There is a simple link, follow the aka.ms/adopt/plan/generator,
it will take you directly
into the generator and you sign in and be able to go and build.
One other thing, which is neat here, if you are using
DevOps today and you've built out your own project,
you can actually go on use this to build your own templates.
Once I've got my project on,
I could actually go and say, hey,
here's a project that's running.
If I choose my organization project name
and build up from that organization,
I can say, hey, here's my particular project.
It's a secure research project that I'm working on.
I could analyze that set of assets,
download that into a zip file,
and I can then reuse that later on in my organization as well.
It's cool to be able to generate
artifacts from projects that you're working on as well.
>> Awesome, that's pretty cool.
If people are using these templates Wayne,
then maybe have feedback or maybe
ideas for a template that's missing.
What's the best way that we can get a hold of you
or the team that are involved in actually making these templates?
>> We can continue to provide
feedback through the various channels.
If you're working with account managers,
your bunch of teams,
channel that information through.
I think you share it into,
I think back on a channel like this to say, hey, Sarah,
we've got this idea,
we would love to be able to see that coming back
through you all as well.
We'd love to ya know whatever channel you have back into
Microsoft, share it up in the US will be
continue to help build some of these templates out
and expand upon them
to make sure that we're meeting your requirements.
>> Awesome. Thank you so much for your time today, Wayne.
I certainly have learned a lot
about these templates and also Azure DevOps.
So I really do appreciate that.
Any of the resources that we have shared
during this talk will be in the box below.
Please do check that out and thank you for watching and
please do stay tuned for
future episodes of the Azure Enablement Show.
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