We would like to share our knowledge and best practices in configuration data migration:
- Always have a configuration management and data migration plan:
- The solution advisor/partner and customer business owner are both required to play an active role
- Always baseline the configuration whenever it is to be deployed in production:
- Be it a full configuration set or delta, it must be tested with all the use cases and the test result should be baselined
- Collaboration tools should be leveraged as a repository with track changes enabled for traceability
- There is a lot of decision making that happens in configurations and data migration, and it should always be updated in the key decision matrix
- Align your configuration and data migration plans with the implementation methodology
- Ensure sign offs on business requirements towards data migration
- Always ensure that you have a golden environment in your plan and use it to seed the other environments...