The CloudScale Method for Managers

Having described the CloudScale method for engineering scalable cloud computing applications in the previous chapters, we explicitly address managers of software development processes in this chapter. It answers questions managers have in mind when considering the CloudScale method: Is it worth implementing the CloudScale method in my organization? What does it take? What are the benefits? What will be the costs? How should I get started? This chapter addresses all these questions and provides answers based on our own experience that we gained when introducing and applying the CloudScale method in practice. In the course of the chapter, we distinguish two types of managers: project managers, who are concerned with managing project teams that implement the business requirements, and technical managers, who manage the actual development efforts and take technical decisions.