IT Manager's guide: reduce the risks of IT change

Overview

Planning for an IT change is a long and error-prone process. An accurate and comprehensive understanding of your infrastructure is necessary to ensure that your implementation plan is appropriate and will result in a smooth transition. Documentation and historical asset inventories are rarely up to date and the people who built them have invariably moved on, providing an unreliable
basis for planning.

Successful consolidation projects mitigate risk and execute efficiently through diligent up-front planning and decision making. High quality project plans and effective decisions are dependent upon having accurate and detailed information available before, during, and after migration activities.

Effective IT planning and decision making are dependent upon having a complete asset inventory and an accurate understanding about dependencies available before, during and after IT change activities.