The migrations that generate the most cleanup are usually the fastest ones.

The pressure is always there. Tight deadlines, stakeholders watching the timeline, a go-live date that was set before anyone had seen the environment. Speed becomes the measure of success before the project even starts.

Speed without validation doesn’t save time. It borrows time from the weeks after cutover and pays it back with interest. Rush the validation steps and data issues go undetected for months. Users hit disruptions during cutover that a proper pre-migration check would have caught and resolved weeks earlier.

I’d rather deliver a migration that takes a few extra days and is fully validated than one that hits the date and generates two weeks of cleanup tickets. The date looks good in the status report. The tickets show up in the help desk queue.

Speed matters. It shouldn’t be the only thing the project is measured against.

What’s your take on how migration timelines get set and who should have input into whether the date is actually realistic?

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