1. Definition
   1. The Google Cloud Adoption Framework helps you identify key activities and objectives that will reliably accelerate your cloud journey.
2. Phases
   1. Tactical
      1. Individual workloads are in place, but no coherent plan encompassing all of them with a strategy for building out to the future.
   2. Strategic
      1. A broader vision governs individual workloads, which are designed and developed with an eye to future needs and scale.
   3. Transformational
      1. With cloud operations functioning smoothly, you’ve turned your attention to integrating the data and insights garnered from working now in the cloud.
3. Cloud Maturity Assessment
4. Themes
   1. Learn
      1. The quality and scale of the learning programs you have in place to upskill your technical teams, and your ability to augment your IT staff with experienced partners.
      2. Who is engaged?
      3. How widespread is that engagement?
      4. How concerted is the effort?
      5. How effective are the results?
      6. Epics
         1. Upskilling
         2. External Experience
   2. Lead
      1. The extent to which IT teams are supported by a mandate from leadership to migrate to cloud.
      2. How are the teams structured?
      3. Have they got executive sponsorship?
      4. How are cloud projects budgeted, governed, assessed?
      5. Epics
         1. Sponsorship
         2. Teamwork
   3. Scale
      1. The extent to which you use cloud-native services that reduce operational over- head and automate manual processes and policies.
      2. How are cloud-based services provisioned?
      3. How is capacity for workloads allocated?
      4. How are application updates managed?
      5. Epics
         1. Architecture
         2. CI/CD
         3. IaC
   4. Secure
      1. The capability to protect your services from unauthorized and inappropriate access with a multilayered, identity-centric security model.
      2. What controls are in place?
      3. What technologies used?
      4. What strategies govern the whole?
      5. Epics
         1. Access Management
         2. Data Management
         3. Identity Management