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That scary old system with 'do not touch' on it? Your boss very much wants you to touch it. Now what do you do?

Pete 2 Silver badge

Step 0

> Before taking a pencil to the back of an envelope or breaking out the Excel and pivot tables, it’s important to understand who is driving the migration and what they want

I would suggest that the very first step is to work out who will get the blame when it all goes terribly wrong (though I think we can all guess the answer).

We learned how to migrate all the clockwork-powered computers prior to Y2K. The strategy hasn't changed just because the buzz-words in the sales brochure are different.

The best tip is to employ outsiders to do the work for you. That way, when someone does go pointing fingers, it will be in the direction of people who no longer there (and therefore cannot deny their part in the failure: whether true or false). This is the major benefit of contracting-out work - the indemnity value.

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