First, identify your migration team. It is likely you’ll be working with other members across your organization, so determine who those stakeholders are now and what their respective levels of involvement will be. For example, including people from the security and workload teams early in the process can help you identify and remediate or bypass issues that might have otherwise occurred mid-migration. Educating these key players about your organization’s cloud strategy will help teams identify their roles in the overall migration effort. Similarly, if IT transformation or AI initiatives are in play, it’s also important to sync with these folks about their cloud goals so you can identify both synergistic opportunities and possible conflicts early on.
Once you’ve figured out your team of internal stakeholders, identify the workloads slated for migration. It’s likely that your organization has hundreds or even thousands of workloads to migrate to the cloud, so where do you begin? Start by determining which workloads should be moved to the cloud first.
