How to ease the Heebie Jeebies of Migration?

Enterprises envision a spanky new system as their dream to-be state and hence begins our journey of Digital Transformation with them.

Migration is when the old system has been deprecated and the new system hosts the data of the old system, supports onboarding of new data and is positively accepted by the length and breadth of the targeted audience.

Most importantly, migration in this article’s context is not limited to data migration, it is the complete system migration. Many enterprises start with a big bang approach on Digital Transformation and a massive 70% of digital transformations are failures according to Mckinsey. This is a grim figure as one observes and a lot of it is contributed by unsuccessful migration attempts to the new system. Migrations are notorious to have not been planned correctly or mostly overshoot their time targets.

And what are Heebie Jeebies? This means a state of nervous fear or anxiety.

As in the movie Madagascar, Maurice had Heebie Jeebies for Alex, the lion.

On a similar note, because of inherent agility and planning required for making a new system live, people have Heebie Jeebies for the migration process.

Let us read further to know how to ease these Heebie Jeebies. First we have to know what we are dealing with. So, let us understand the different types of migration.