A large migration project is built upon its people foundation and platform foundation. Properly preparing these foundations is critical to the success of the project. Platform refers to the technology decisions you make, such as infrastructure, operations, and security. People refers to the teams and individuals who contribute to the project, from beginning to end.
In this playbook, you build the foundation workstream. Because this workstream is intended to prepare the platform and people before you begin migrating applications, you start and complete this workstream within the first stage of a large migration, initialization. For more information about core and supporting workstreams, see Workstreams in a large migration in the Foundation playbook for AWS large migrations.
The purpose of this playbook is to prepare the platform foundation and people foundation to support a large-scale migration effort. Both of these foundations are critical to the success of large migrations. This guide consists of the following sections:
People foundation – In this section, you define the workstreams in your large migration project and build a responsible, accountable, consulted, informed (RACI) matrix for each high-level task. It also includes recommendations for establishing a Cloud Enablement Engine (CEE). This section also contains training resources and helps you build a training dashboard for your large migration.
Platform foundation – In this section, you review technology considerations for the on-premises and AWS Cloud environments, such as infrastructure, operations, security. You make key decisions in these categories, which you record as migration principles.
