"One of the most successful projects I recently managed was migrating an on-premise data center into the cloud. The critical challenge of this project was to maintain the productivity of the organization during the migration. We accomplished this by first standing up the hardware resources in the cloud. We then replicated the applications and data and migrated it to the hardware already set up in the cloud. Finally, we shut down the company's production for the weekend, took a snapshot of the data, and then updated the information in the cloud. On Monday, the company was in full production, and no data had been lost. What I learned from this is that the success of a project begins the planning stage and that if done properly, the execution is relatively straightforward."
