Plan and Engage (Phase 0)

• Collect as much information as possible before the project kickoff, customer drawings, VMware exports, and questionnaires
• Get access to the customer's systems, cloud accounts, and communications
• Prepare project plan for Phase 1
• Conduct project kickoff meeting with the broader customer audience Discovery Design (Phase 1)
• Process the business discovery questionnaire and prepare a readout for the business cloud readiness status and business plan for migration to the cloud
• Process the technical discovery questionnaire, prepare the Pre-Delivery Engineering report (PDER) and start building the cloud landing zone upon customer approval
• Conduct a Discover Party to verify the information in the technical discovery questionnaire and validate plan governance controls in the cloud environment
• Plan Migration Parties for Phase 3 based on details gained in the Discovery Party Validate (Phase 2)
• Conduct the migration parties to validate the migration and modernization approaches selected in Phase 1 Plan (Phase 3)
• Plan the migration and modernization process to align with the IT roadmap
• Produce total level of effort and business case to show the costs of the migration and modernization