Amazon WorkSpaces End User Computing (EUC) Deployment Change Management Plan

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A successful Amazon WorkSpaces deployment that delivers the highest possible ROI and adoption of the Amazon WorkSpaces for your organization, requires a solid change management plan that helps drive user adoption, usage, and proficiency with Amazon WorkSpaces.

Timeline for Change Management activities

There are many different approaches to change management, what’s best depends on your company’s size, culture, industry, and more. But with large scale Amazon WorkSpaces deployment, we’ve seen successful deployment have these common traits for change management. In this document, you’ll find our suggested timeline for key change management activities for your organization WorkSpaces production (100-250 users) deployment, as well as tips for assessing change impacts and developing your communications and training plans.

The following suggested timeline for a pilot deployment roll out plan for approximately (100-250 users). Enter image description here

It is strongly recommended that you plan how long the T- process should run, what criteria needs to be met before an asset can enter the process, the process steps and when they happen. The T-minus timeline should include every aspect of the migration preparation, scheduling and deployment, and be documented in a format that should enable you to identify which tasks can be automated further down the line. The clearer that you can define your schedule of activities, the greater your chance of running a successful end to end migration process.

This can easily be scaled out to include a larger rollout by separating users into groups of 100-250 users. For example, you can split the groups into deployment waves and stagger the change management activities: Enter image description here

T-5 weeks before go-live

  • Customize and send: Company announcement to pilot users [optional]
  • Customize and post: Intranet announcement to company
  • Finalize communications plan
  • Finalize training plan: courses, trainers, and schedule
  • Identify change impacts mitigation plan and assign owners

T-4 weeks before go-live

  • Customize and post: Communication poster [optional]
  • Customize and send: Training announcement
  • Customize and develop training materials for the following groups:
  • o Supporting Amazon WorkSpaces for L1 Help Center Staff
  • o Troubleshooting Amazon WorkSpaces for L2 Operations Staff
  • o [Additional training needed before go-live]
  • Complete change impacts mitigation plan

T-3 weeks before go-live

  • Deliver and evaluate training: L1 Help Center Staff
  • Deliver and evaluate training: L2 Operations Staff
  • Complete change impacts mitigation plan

T-2 weeks before go-live

  • Customize and send: Preparation Message #1: First notification
  • Complete change impacts mitigation plan

T-1 week before go-live

  • Customize and send: Preparation Message #2: Reminder
  • Deliver and evaluate training: User - Quickstart with Amazon WorkSpaces
  • Deliver and evaluate training: User - Requesting applications and getting support
  • Complete change impacts mitigation plan

Day 1 – go-live

  • Customize and send: Welcome message
  • Conduct go-live event: IT Support office hours

T+1 week after go-live

  • Deliver and evaluate training: Amazon WorkSpaces Basics Training
  • Deliver and evaluate training: Ask the expert
  • Conduct daily support events: IT office hours

T+2 week after go-live

  • Customize and send: Tips & Tricks
  • Review progress and obtain feedback from users
  • Plan for ongoing change management

Ongoing new user onboarding

  • Customize and send New user welcome message (as needed)
  • Customize and send: Tips & Tricks
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Great write up! If customers have trouble being organized with these kinds of roll outs, leveraging EBAs can be a great tool to make sure they can stick to their timeline.

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