Preparing and execution pilot migration Testing the waters before go all in with a new cloud provider is a good strategy. The pilot migration to the cloud ensures the seamless shift of the operations to cloud services and provide knowledge transfer and learning back to the organization. It is a …

Build target foundation The target foundation should be a configured secure enterprise environment based on best practices, foundation for the enterprise migration journey and an environment that allows for iteration and extension over time. The target foundation comprises of a landing zone. What is a landing zone? According to AWS, …

Application low-level deployment architecture The end state architecture is derived in order to formulate a migration strategy that considers a wide range of constraints, interdependencies, business impact, resource impact, and cost impact. It needs to incorporated thorough risk analysis against all plans and recommendations reviewed with all relevant stakeholders and …

Finalize prioritized backlog of application groups Now that the application and infrastructure is discovered and classified, start thinking about prioritizing them. Other factors start coming into play like e.g. age of hardware and proximity to refresh, systems running at capacity, etc. Ordering of an application migration is dependent on the …

Cloud migration - From on-premise to the cloud! This part describes for defining the migration plan during the planning and discovery phase

Setup cloud security controls The security controls are a prioritized, highly focused set of actions that have a support team to make them implementable, usable, scalable, and compliant with all industry or government security requirements. These controls assume that an organization has management control over the application and infrastructure s …

Define migration strategy and schedule Designing the migration strategy and approach is a key component and driver for future planning. Produce a draft migration schedule and timetable of migration events. The migration approach takes input from the migration plan and all discovery activities.  It analyses these inputs to create a …

Create migration event playbook The creation of the migration event playbook establishes the management system for the migration event.  This includes the definition of management boards and the decision making framework including go/no go criteria. What is a migration event playbook? A migration event playbook is designed to coordinate all …

Create the migration technical runbook The “technical runbook” is a very detailed plan for the migration / relocation event. During its creation the runbook should be reviewed by all technical key stakeholders. Technical runbook A technical runbook is a compilation of routine procedures and operations that the system administrator or operator …

The Method Adoption Workshop During my IBM career the method adoption workshop was used several times in the beginning of the project initiation. It’s conducted to expedite the project-planning process. The MAW is a group meeting that requires participation by all project stakeholders both for their expertise and to assure buy-in. It …