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Determine the business process related to every application to be migrated.
Measure the allowed downtime of every application and the business areas
using every one of them. If possible, let the most critical applications migrate
late, once you have gained some experience migrating the less critical ones.
On the other hand, it may be a good idea to migrate very simple application
first to gain initial experience and then migrate the most complex part, so that
the rest of the migration effort is more or less a mechanical task. This may be
a very good approach if you hire expensive consultants or mentors for the
beginning of your project and wish to finish the bulk of the migration on your
own