Migration Readiness Assessment

Migrating between business systems is the most underestimated project in custom software. The technical part, moving rows from one database to another, is rarely what goes wrong. What goes wrong is everything around it: data structures that don't match between systems, years of inconsistent records that people worked around but scripts can't, integrations nobody remembered to re-point, and a cutover weekend with no rehearsed way back.

Done badly, a migration loses data, breaks workflows, and burns your team's trust in the new system before it ever had a chance. Done right, it's invisible: everything just works on Monday morning. The difference is almost never the tools. It's whether the unglamorous preparation work happened first: a complete data inventory classified by importance, a field-by-field mapping document, a tested rollback procedure, and a dry run against realistic data.

This assessment scores you on the ten factors that actually predict migration outcomes, drawn from the same 4-phase process. audit, plan, migrate, validate: that we run with Seattle businesses switching systems. Each question maps to a real failure mode we've seen: skipping the audit because "we know our data" (until 47,000 junk records surface), cutting over without a parallel run, or treating "the migration script said success" as validation. Your score comes with a per-area breakdown and a next-steps checklist ordered worst-first, so you know exactly what to fix before you commit to a cutover date.

The assessment takes about three minutes and your results are shown immediately, no email required. If you want the full report to share with your team or a vendor, you can optionally have it emailed to you. And if your score surfaces gaps you'd rather not close alone, that's exactly the kind of work we do.