Task 1: Prioritizing the applications
In this task, you review the list of unmigrated applications in your portfolio and, for a subset of the remaining applications, assign an application complexity score and priority. You repeat this process many times throughout the migration project.
You need the following information to complete this task.
Input | Source |
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A complete list of the applications in your portfolio that you are going to migrate |
A discovery tool or a configuration management database (CMDB) |
The target migration strategy and pattern, at a high level |
Migration strategies and Migration patterns in your application prioritization runbook |
The number of applications that you plan to include in the wave |
Wave planning selection criteria in your wave planning runbook |
Follow the instructions in your application prioritization runbook, in the Stage 2: Prioritize applications section. You defined this process in this playbook, in Step 3: Finalize the application prioritization process.
At the end of this task, you have completed the following.
Output | Description |
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A list of prioritized applications |
You have prioritized 2–3 times the number of applications that you plan to include in the wave, and you have entered these applications in the progress tracker. |