Planning and Management Methods for Migration to a Cloud Environment
Abstract
Migrating to a cloud environment, or any other large-scale IT transformation, is a highly complex undertaking. It requires significant upfront thought and in-depth planning to ensure effective resource use and risk management, on-time and within budget implementation, and ultimately operational success. Without a standardized approach to planning (e.g., a planning template), each organization must independently create its plan from scratch. Such an approach is inherently inefficient, slow, and duplicative of similar work done elsewhere. In addition, it may not fully leverage lessons learned and/or best practices from other activities, and may be risky due to possible oversights. This problem is compounded if personnel in charge of the migration are not experienced in planning complex IT projects. This document describes ways to develop an effective and efficient planning approach, and helps provide a roadmap for an inexperienced team. Its purpose is to introduce and describe a set of high-level planning and management concepts and approaches to support efforts to migrate a data center (e.g., services, applications and data) to a cloud-based architecture. It identifies and introduces a variety of "best practice" management approaches to help a project manager begin the planning process and to manage key aspects of its execution and operation. While it is focused on cloud migration activities, much of the content is applicable to planning any large-scale, complex Information Technology (IT) transformation.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 2017
- Accession Number
- AD1107957
Entities
People
- Donn K. Kearns
Organizations
- MITRE Corporation