Planning for SharePoint Migrations
Planning for an enterprise SharePoint Migration can be challenging, painful, frustrating, and time consuming. Define SharePoint Migration Goals The first step in SharePoint Migration planning, or in any technology migration, is to define the goals and objectives. Simply put, this is defining: Why are we migrating? What must we have Day 1 on the new platform? What do we hope to get out of the new platform? What are the hopes/goals six months after launch? A year? 3 years? These are small questions that can have some big answers. Having defined goals and objectives before deep diving into planning activity will help inform your analysis and decisions. Each stage of the planning process should be viewed through the lens of these goals and objectives. If the “why” of the migration is part of a company-wide cloud initiative, then you know at the outset that the option to leave behind legacy or complex customizations is probably off the table. If the Day 1 objective is a