Atlassian Team '26 - Cisco's Jason Andrews on what "transform, don't migrate" actually looks like
Jason Andrews has told the Cisco story before. 75 tools collapsed onto a single cloud platform, software spend cut by 54%, an additional $5.3 million in annual savings from giving 10,000 users back 15 minutes a week. Andrews is VP of Engineering Operations at Cisco, where he runs operations for a 20,000-engineer organization that ships more than 60 product lines and over $36 billion in annual revenue. The version Andrews tells in person is more candid about what the transformation actually cost.
The most quotable line of his Team '26 interview is one he has used in multiple settings, but the supporting story is fresh.
Transform, don't migrate. I think that's the simplest lesson. If you just lift and shift to the cloud, lift and shift in a row, you're not going to get the value. You really have to rethink the way you want to work and operate.
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