Atlassian Cloud Migration & Adoption

Phase 1: Assess Server or Data Center Instance

Cloud migrations are much more than just moving data from a server into the cloud. In this initial phase, we work with you and your team to clearly understand your system and where you’re headed. With insight into your current and future needs, we can deep dive into the system qualifications and uncover this critical information. All done to provide you with information on how the cloud will fit your unique use, and highlight and fix any system limitations or complications that may be halting your decision making.

Phase 2: Plan for Atlassian Migration

Time to figure out what steps you’ll need to take to get there and what the strategy should be. There are four viable options you can choose, each with their own advantages and disadvantages.

• Lift and Shift – Take all of your product, user and application data, and migrate it to cloud in a single migration.
• Optimize and Shift – An “all at once” migration where you assess which data to migrate to cloud and which to leave behind on your server instance for future reference in a read-only state.
• Phased – Migrate data in stages, rather than all at once. As you complete each migration, issues can be worked out and users onboarded and trained in small chunks.
• Start Fresh – You have no need to keep your data going forward, or want to start work in cloud immediately.

We work with your team to help decide which of these options work best for your organization, and help prepare your migration project plan using lightweight agile methods.

Phase 3 – Prepare Atlassian Cloud and Server Environments

Once you’ve completed the assessments, chosen a migration option and have your project plan ready to go, the next step is to prepare the system to be migrated. This step typically involves data cleanup, database and migration tool selection, resource planning and lots of communication.

Phase 4 – Testing the Atlassian Migration

The goal of this phase is to determine if the migration will work, how long it will take, and develop the customer’s production migration checklist. We test all facets of migration on non-production systems to maintain data integrity to ensure there are no negative surprises during production migration or once in the cloud. Once that’s complete, we can confidently migrate data, apps, and users to the cloud with minimal friction and in a known amount of time.

Phase 5 – Migration to Atlassian Cloud

With the testing done, we are ready to migrate you to the cloud. At this stage we have a detailed documenting of the steps to migrate, the plan has been communicated to you and your team knows the migration date. It is time, we migrate. Boom! done. After this phase we will have:

• The target users, data and apps, reviewed and confirmed to be successfully migrated.
• High priority post-migration issues have been resolved.

Phase 6 – Go live (Launch!)

Now that your data is in the cloud, it’s time to get your people there too. In this phase, we help users get set up in the cloud, develop the skills of the administrative team, and then retire your server.

Ideally this phase is anticlimactic, since we’ve tested, prepared, and we know exactly how it will end!