Conclusion
This guide outlined six best practices to consider when retiring applications in your migration plan. They provide a framework for you to use when evaluating the applications scheduled for retirement and their potential impact.
Although this framework is not exhaustive and you’ll want to embed processes that are specific to your organization (such as tracking the retired infrastructure in your configuration management database), it will help manage this migration workstream.
Following these guidelines helps you gain confidence and earn trust in retiring applications, while providing enough time to migrate applications that have been incorrectly categorized.
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