Phase 3: Effort and Risk Assessment
pHase iii: effoRt and Risk assessment After studying the deployment architecture and inventorying the applications and technologies that will be involved in the migration, we are in a position to estimate the effort and risk of the migration. Risk and effort assessment will include both technical and organizational components. Using the technical analysis from the previous sections, we can begin the technical effort and risk assessment. This will focus on: 1. Technical analysis • Scope • Number of servers, datacenters, and applications to be migrated • Technology gap analysis • Features that don’t immediately map to open source alternatives • Conflicting configuration requirements • Adherence to specifications • Use of proprietary IDEs that embed proprietary libraries • Library selection