Inventory complete
Workloads, dependencies, owners, licences, windows and current protection are reviewed.
MigrationCONTROL DOSSIER
Design the rollback before approving the change window.
A credible migration plan names dependencies, acceptance tests, checkpoints, owners and the last safe decision to return.
Migration and managed operation
Reduce risk before the change window begins.
Discovery, pilot criteria, an executable runbook and a real rollback decision matter more than an optimistic migration slogan.
- 01
Discover
Inventory workloads, dependencies, licences, owners, business windows and current pain points.
- 02
Map
Review data flows, locations, identity, connectivity, security boundaries and recovery priorities.
- 03
Pilot
Validate a representative workload, operating controls and acceptance criteria before broad migration.
- 04
Migrate and prove rollback
Use an approved runbook, checkpoints, validation steps and a tested decision path back.
- 05
Operate and improve
Monitor service health, incidents, capacity, recovery tests, lifecycle changes and ownership.
Migration gates
Five approvals that should not be implicit.
Exact migration scope, platform support and maintenance windows remain TBD.
Pilot accepted
Representative function, access, monitoring, backup and recovery criteria are met.
Runbook approved
Sequence, checkpoints, communications, validation and escalation are executable.
Rollback proved
The owner, decision time, return actions and data reconciliation are understood.
Operations accepted
Monitoring, ownership, support, change and evidence move into steady state.
Bring the current estate into the first migration review.
Start with workload placement, connectivity, data flows, recovery objectives, migration risk and the full commercial scope.