migration plan

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Migrating with the Microsoft
Cloud Adoption Framework
Every organization has its own
reasons for migration. Whatever
your reasons are, you can achieve
your goals successfully by following
a well-structured approach that
addresses your various business,
technical, and organizational needs.
This requires a cloud provider (and core partners) that can
deliver a comprehensive set of tools and methods to help
simplify and accelerate migration and reduce overall risk.
Most of all, you need a simple process that’s easy to
follow. You can simplify your cloud adoption journey
by breaking it into phases. The steps you take should
allow you to get a clear picture of your overall migration
readiness and your entire application and workload
portfolio—and the best way to configure that portfolio to
achieve migration.
The Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework provides proven
guidance, best practices, tools, and templates to support
your adoption journey through the different phases. The
guidance covers strategy and planning, as well as the
ongoing governance, optimization, and management of
the migrated workloads. With this proven approach, you
can execute your migration project with confidence.
In the following chapters, we’ll discuss migration phases
that have helped others move to the cloud and provide
you with considerations for each phase.
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Figure 3. Common migration journey