migration plan

Stakeholder alignment
Since migration involves coordination between multiple
functions, it’s important to achieve alignment. Being
able to speak in terms of business outcomes supports
transparency and cross-functional partnerships.
To succeed, you need to count on the right level
of support from IT, security, and other areas of the
business—most importantly, the application owners
who will be affected.
To maintain application owners' support throughout
the migration effort and to avoid any surprises,
include them in early planning exercises and reinforce
the benefits of their application being hosted in Azure.
IT infrastructure groups (for example, networking,
security, identity, etc.) should also be part of design
and planning discussions.
Engage your partner
Another part of your strategy is determining when to
enlist external support for your migration.
Your cloud adoption team performs the actual
migration of workloads to the cloud. To define the
digital estate or build the core cloud infrastructure,
the team executes a repetitive series of collaborative
and problem-solving tasks.
With the Microsoft partner system as a resource, you are
empowered to identify what tasks to perform with your
in-house IT teams, and what tasks may require expert
assistance. Work with your existing Microsoft partner
if you have one, or find a Microsoft partner to leverage
their deep expertise in the planning and execution of
migration projects. They can help your cloud adoption
team overcome any execution anomalies, so migration
proceeds quickly and without missteps.
We recommend working with Azure Expert Managed
Services Providers or other specialized partners, as
they have deep cloud technical know-how, consistently
deliver customer success, and are validated each year
by an independent auditor.
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