Detailed wave assessment

The detailed assessment of applications, ahead of a migration wave and as a key enabler for migration, has the same requirements and recommendations as the prioritized applications assessment stage. The goals are to understand in detail the current state of the applications in a given wave, and to produce a future state architecture design and migration strategy, including operational aspects, tooling, and specific migration patterns.

Apply the prioritized applications assessment to the group of applications in a given wave. Repeat this process ahead of each wave in your migration plan. The key is to schedule enough time in between the detailed assessment and the start of the wave. The amount of time needed will be dictated by the requirements of platform and migration teams that are implementing the wave requirements and performing the migrations. Work with those teams to schedule the detailed wave assessment and the wave. We recommend implementing a factory-like model emulating a production line.