Effective project governance is critical to the success of a large migration to the AWS Cloud. Project governance defines the rules, boundaries, and plans for completing the migration. Common project governance tools include a communication plan, benefit-tracking office, escalation plan, and quality gates for migration and cutover. By completing this playbook, you create and customize the governance that defines how to run your migration project.
In the third phase of a large migration, migrate and modernize, you refine your project governance model and create many of the tools and templates that you use during the migration. You should complete the assess and mobilize phases prior to starting this process. For more information about the phases of a large migration, see Phases of a large migration in the Guide for AWS large migrations.
This playbook provides a step-by-step approach to quickly develop an effective governance model for a large migration project. It describes project governance for a large migration, which spans both stages of the migrate phase, initialization and implementation:
In stage 1, initialize, you assess team readiness and stand up the governance model. You define the processes and tools that govern your large migration project. At the end of stage 1, you have project governance tools that are customized for your own use case.
In stage 2, implement, you use the tools you created in the previous stage in order to adhere to your project governance plan.
