Migration Roadmap

Who this is for

Teams facing a datacentre exit, a cloud-to-cloud move, or a database migration where the cutover is the part nobody wants to own.

• 90-minute working session
• Written roadmap with sequencing and rollback
• Fixed scope, agreed before it starts

What we work through together

This is a working session, not a presentation. We map what you are running now, what depends on what, and which pieces are genuinely hard rather than merely unfamiliar. Most migrations fail on dependencies nobody wrote down, so that is where we spend the time.

• Inventory of what actually has to move, and what can be left behind or rebuilt
• The dependency graph, including the ones discovered by asking rather than scanning
• Data volume and change rate, which decides the cutover technique
• Which workloads can move as they are, and which must be reworked first
• The cutover window, and what has to be true before it opens
• Rollback: the plan for putting it back, designed before anything moves

What you get afterwards

A written roadmap with the work broken into waves, each with its dependencies, its risk and a realistic effort estimate. It is specific enough to plan a budget against and to hand to your own team if you run it yourselves.

• Migration waves in dependency order, not alphabetical order
• Cutover approach per workload, with the downtime each one implies
• A rollback plan for every wave, written before the wave is attempted
• Effort in engineer-weeks, so the number you take to your board is defensible

Why the cutover should be boring

A good migration is one where the cutover is the least interesting day of the project, because every decision that could have gone wrong was made weeks earlier. Planning is what buys that. Ninety minutes spent on dependencies and rollback is the cheapest insurance in the whole programme.