Migration Planning Workshops

Plan your migration with structured workshop sessions

Migration Planning Workshops help your organisation prepare for complex moves to new platforms or environments. We work with your team to clarify goals, understand existing systems and dependencies, and outline key risks and constraints for a successful transition. These sessions provide a forum to align stakeholders, establish scope and agree actionable steps that support a realistic and controlled migration plan.
LW IT Solutions delivers Migration Planning Workshops as guided sessions tailored to your project needs. During these workshops we explore current architecture, desired future state, tool choices, scheduling priorities and risk mitigation strategies. Outputs include documented workshop findings, a tailored migration blueprint and clear recommendations to guide technical delivery and governance throughout your migration activity.

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Service Overview

Highlights

  • Structured discussions of current and target environments
  • Identification of business and technical migration goals
  • Risk, dependency and constraint analysis
  • Documented findings and actionable next steps

Business Benefits

  • Aligned stakeholder understanding of migration priorities
  • Clarity on scope, risks and migration approach
  • Foundational documentation to support planning and execution
  • Early identification of dependencies and constraints

Typical use cases

  • Organisations preparing for cloud or service platform migrations
  • Teams needing a roadmap for phased migration activity
  • Projects requiring formal risk and dependency review
  • IT stakeholders needing to align on migration outcomes

Objectives & deliverables

What Success Looks Like

  • Agree clear migration goals and success criteria
  • Document current and target state systems and dependencies
  • Identify risks, constraints and key assumptions
  • Define a draft migration approach and timeline
  • Produce actionable next steps and governance recommendations

What You Get

  • Workshop agenda and pre-work activities
  • Current state analysis and target state definition
  • Risk, dependency and constraint log
  • Draft migration approach and timeline
  • Workshop summary document with recommendations

How It Works

  1. Pre-workshop scoping and data gathering
  2. Workshop session(s) with key stakeholders
  3. Facilitated discussions on strategy and risks
  4. Drafting of migration approach and next steps
  5. Review and handover of documented outputs

Engagement Options

  • Core Migration Planning - Focused workshop to clarify scope, risks and high-level approach.
  • Extended Planning Workshop - In-depth sessions with wider stakeholder involvement and deeper analysis.
  • Follow-up Advisory Support - Additional sessions to refine migration approach and address evolving needs.

Additional Information

Prerequisites & licensing

Before the workshop begins, please ensure the following prerequisites are met to help us deliver the most value.
  • Access to existing architecture diagrams or system inventories
  • Defined business goals for migration outcomes
  • Availability of key technical and business stakeholders
  • Any previous assessments or audits relevant to the migration

Security & Compliance Notes

  • Workshop discussions cover security considerations relevant to the migration.
  • Risk and dependency logs include a review of compliance and governance impacts where applicable.

Common Bundles

Customers who use this service often bundle with these services

Adoption Planning (Admins)
Prepare administrators for new service rollouts with clear governance, defined responsibilities, operational plans, and tooling to support sustained adoption.

Adoption Planning (End Users)
Plan end user adoption with structured communications, targeted training, champion networks, and measurement that supports confident use and sustained value.

Power Platform Workshops
Hands-on Power Platform workshops covering Power Apps, Power Automate, and Dataverse, delivering agreed use cases, governance decisions, and a build backlog.

Documentation Packs & Runbooks
Create professional documentation packs and runbooks that make deployments, migrations and daily operations supportable, auditable and consistent teams.

Frequently Asked Questions

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