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Real Estate Legacy Portal Kubernetes Modernization

Incremental migration of a legacy property portal into containerized listing, search, application, document, payment, and notification services.

51-step migration flow for Real Estate Legacy Portal Kubernetes Modernization

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Follow the phases in order. Each step explains why the work is required, how it applies to this project, who owns it, what to do, which tools fit, what evidence to retain, and the gate that must pass before continuing.

Project operating context

Construction and property services
Service promise

Modernize the portal without breaking listing accuracy, tenant isolation, payment processing, or broker and resident workflows.

Critical service journey
  1. 01create the property, project, lease, or work package
  2. 02capture budget, schedule, document, and approval state
  3. 03coordinate site, contractor, tenant, or vendor activity
  4. 04record progress, cost, issue, and change
  5. 05approve payment, handover, or service completion
  6. 06report portfolio performance and retain evidence
People and teams
  • project, site, and property teams
  • contractors, tenants, owners, and vendors
  • commercial, finance, and document-control teams
  • application, integration, and support owners
Protected assets
  • project, property, lease, and asset master data
  • schedule, cost, contract, and change records
  • drawings, documents, approvals, and handover evidence
  • vendor, tenant, payment, and service histories
Critical dependencies
  • ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems
  • mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals
  • identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services
  • scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges
Primary risks
  • site and office records diverge during intermittent connectivity
  • cost, schedule, document, or approval status is lost or duplicated
  • a release blocks field work, tenant service, or payment approval
  • migration breaks historical document links or contractual audit trails
Mandatory controls
  • master-data and document-link reconciliation
  • offline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection
  • role-based approval and immutable change history
  • business-calendar cutover with representative project validation
Success signals
  • workflow, approval, and work-order completion
  • schedule and cost data freshness
  • document and master-data reconciliation
  • field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog

Full project notes

6 note sections

Real Estate Legacy Portal Kubernetes Modernization is treated as a complete construction and property services service rather than a collection of isolated cloud resources. These notes explain the business journey, architecture, delivery or operating model, assurance controls, production signals, recovery behavior, and evidence required to manage the project from initiation through handover.

Execution-plan basisA complete migration lifecycle for estate discovery, target design, landing-zone construction, workload and data preparation, rehearsal, controlled cutover, hypercare, decommissioning, and benefits realization. Validate the cutover controls, gates, evidence, and rollback practices against the real migration program.

01

Business scope and service outcome

Incremental migration of a legacy property portal into containerized listing, search, application, document, payment, and notification services. The governing objective is to modernize the portal without breaking listing accuracy, tenant isolation, payment processing, or broker and resident workflows. Scope decisions must therefore be tested against the complete journey from “create the property, project, lease, or work package” to “report portfolio performance and retain evidence”, not only against successful infrastructure deployment.

The service serves project, site, and property teams, contractors, tenants, owners, and vendors, commercial, finance, and document-control teams, application, integration, and support owners. Ownership must remain clear at every handoff because a technically healthy component can still leave the business journey incomplete, inconsistent, inaccessible, or outside its required operating window.

  • Business outcome measures: workflow, approval, and work-order completion, schedule and cost data freshness, document and master-data reconciliation, field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog.
  • Protected service assets: project, property, lease, and asset master data, schedule, cost, contract, and change records, drawings, documents, approvals, and handover evidence, vendor, tenant, payment, and service histories.
  • Accountable participant groups: project, site, and property teams, contractors, tenants, owners, and vendors, commercial, finance, and document-control teams, application, integration, and support owners.
02

Architecture and dependency notes

The AWS solution must carry each request, event, file, job, or operator action across ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems, mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals, identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services, scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges. Those dependencies require explicit identities, routes, timeouts, retry behavior, health signals, owners, escalation paths, capacity assumptions, and safe failure modes.

The working technology set is AWS EKS, ECR, Aurora, OpenSearch, S3, Terraform, Argo CD, CloudWatch. Every technology is included for a defined service responsibility and must have version ownership, configuration source, security baseline, monitoring coverage, backup or recreation method, and an upgrade path. Unmanaged manual configuration is treated as drift and converted into reviewed automation or a governed runbook step.

  • Journey stage 1: create the property, project, lease, or work package.
  • Journey stage 2: capture budget, schedule, document, and approval state.
  • Journey stage 3: coordinate site, contractor, tenant, or vendor activity.
  • Journey stage 4: record progress, cost, issue, and change.
  • Journey stage 5: approve payment, handover, or service completion.
  • Journey stage 6: report portfolio performance and retain evidence.
03

Migration waves, rehearsal, and cutover model

The migration is controlled as a sequence of dependency-aware waves rather than a bulk infrastructure move. Discovery establishes the trusted source baseline; target design answers security, availability, scaling, cost, observability, backup, recovery, and support needs; the landing zone is proven before workload data is introduced.

A representative pilot and timed rehearsal validate transfer duration, compatibility, integrations, performance, security, recovery, business reconciliation, operator readiness, and rollback. During production cutover, explicit checkpoints govern freeze, recovery-point capture, final synchronization, dependency start order, traffic movement, reconciliation, go/no-go, hypercare, and eventual source retirement.

  • Mapped monolith modules, database coupling, sessions, files, search, payments, and partner integrations.
  • Designed EKS, registry, database, object storage, search, identity, observability, and deployment foundations.
  • Containerized services and applied strangler routing with backward-compatible API and schema changes.
  • Rehearsed listing, application, payment, document, and notification reconciliation.
  • Shifted traffic gradually and retired monolith capabilities only after stable operation.
04

Security, risk, and assurance notes

The primary project risks are site and office records diverge during intermittent connectivity; cost, schedule, document, or approval status is lost or duplicated; a release blocks field work, tenant service, or payment approval; migration breaks historical document links or contractual audit trails. They are converted into preventive, detective, and recovery controls rather than left as narrative concerns in a risk register. Each control has an owner, automated or procedural implementation, test method, evidence location, exception path, and review date.

Mandatory assurance includes master-data and document-link reconciliation; offline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection; role-based approval and immutable change history; business-calendar cutover with representative project validation. Identity and secrets follow least privilege; data is protected in transit and at rest; changes remain traceable to reviewed source; security and quality findings are resolved or formally accepted before the corresponding gate can pass.

  • Control: master-data and document-link reconciliation.
  • Control: offline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection.
  • Control: role-based approval and immutable change history.
  • Control: business-calendar cutover with representative project validation.
05

Observability and operational notes

Monitoring joins infrastructure health with application behavior, dependency state, security events, logs, traces, scheduled work, and the business journey. Dashboards and alerts are segmented by environment, region, tenant, cohort, and deployed version where those dimensions affect diagnosis or impact.

The key service indicators are workflow, approval, and work-order completion, schedule and cost data freshness, document and master-data reconciliation, field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog. Every alert must name the affected service, likely impact, current value, threshold, responder, runbook, escalation path, and recovery condition. Synthetic checks exercise the real service path so that a green host or cluster cannot hide a failed business transaction.

  • Operational signal: workflow, approval, and work-order completion.
  • Operational signal: schedule and cost data freshness.
  • Operational signal: document and master-data reconciliation.
  • Operational signal: field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog.
06

Recovery, handover, and continuous improvement

Recovery is designed around the complete service: application version, infrastructure, configuration, secrets and certificates, data, identity, networking, dependencies, observability, and accountable operators. Restore and failover exercises measure both recovery time and data position, then validate the critical journey before business recovery is declared.

Handover includes architecture, repository and release ownership, access, dashboards, alert routes, support schedules, runbooks, backup and recovery evidence, known risks, vendor contacts, cost ownership, and improvement backlog. Incidents, failed changes, capacity trends, security findings, and user feedback become funded corrective work with owners and measurable closure evidence.

  • Target outcome: Reduced release coupling through incremental service extraction.
  • Target outcome: Maintained listing and payment consistency during coexistence.
  • Target outcome: Established a scalable container operating model.

Full flow diagram library

5 project-level flows

Use these diagrams with the critical-service journey, phase maps, and the execution diagram inside every step. Together they show how business work, platform components, delivery controls, evidence, recovery, and continuous improvement connect.

01

End-to-end business service flow

The customer, operator, data, and system journey that the technical project exists to protect.

  1. 01Stage 1Create the property, project, lease, or work package; observe workflow, approval, and work-order completion.
  2. 02Stage 2Capture budget, schedule, document, and approval state; observe schedule and cost data freshness.
  3. 03Stage 3Coordinate site, contractor, tenant, or vendor activity; observe document and master-data reconciliation.
  4. 04Stage 4Record progress, cost, issue, and change; observe field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog.
  5. 05Stage 5Approve payment, handover, or service completion; observe workflow, approval, and work-order completion.
  6. 06Stage 6Report portfolio performance and retain evidence; observe schedule and cost data freshness.
02

Architecture and dependency flow

A logical view of how the AWS platform connects users, delivery tooling, service logic, protected data, dependencies, and operations.

  1. 01People and systemsproject, site, and property teams and contractors, tenants, owners, and vendors
  2. 02Identity and entryERP, finance, document, and procurement systems
  3. 03AWS platformAWS EKS, ECR, Aurora
  4. 04Project capabilityProperty Technology Modernization: Mapped monolith modules, database coupling, sessions, files, search, payments, and partner integrations
  5. 05Protected stateproject, property, lease, and asset master data and schedule, cost, contract, and change records
  6. 06Connected servicesmobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals, identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services, scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges
  7. 07Operational feedbackworkflow, approval, and work-order completion and schedule and cost data freshness
03

Migration lifecycle control flow

The ordered governance path used to control this migration project from entry criteria to measurable service outcome.

  1. 01DiscoverSource assets, dependencies, data, performance, cost, and recovery needs
  2. 02DesignDisposition, target architecture, security, operations, and economics
  3. 03Build targetGoverned landing zone, connectivity, identity, policy, and monitoring
  4. 04PrepareCompatibility, transfer, waves, cutover, rollback, and ownership
  5. 05PilotRepresentative workload and reusable migration learning
  6. 06RehearseTimed technical, business, security, recovery, and operator validation
  7. 07Cut overFreeze, final sync, dependency start, traffic, reconciliation, and decision
  8. 08StabilizeHypercare, handover, source retirement, optimization, and benefits
04

Risk, control, evidence, and gate flow

Every material risk is connected to a control, implementation, retained evidence, accountable decision, and live success signal.

  1. 01Identify risksite and office records diverge during intermittent connectivity
  2. 02Select controlmaster-data and document-link reconciliation
  3. 03ImplementAWS EKS, ECR, Aurora, OpenSearch
  4. 04Retain evidenceVersion, operator, timestamps, test output, approval, and before-and-after state
  5. 05Pass the gateThe accountable owner accepts measured evidence or stops the flow
  6. 06Monitor outcomeworkflow, approval, and work-order completion
  7. 07Feed improvementReduced release coupling through incremental service extraction.
05

Failure detection and service recovery loop

The closed loop used to detect degradation, localize the fault, restore the complete service, and prevent recurrence.

  1. 01Detect deviationworkflow, approval, and work-order completion and schedule and cost data freshness
  2. 02Establish impactproject, site, and property teams, contractors, tenants, owners, and vendors, and the affected journey stage
  3. 03Correlate evidenceERP, finance, document, and procurement systems, mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals, identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services, scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges
  4. 04Contain safelyoffline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection
  5. 05Restore serviceRecover project, property, lease, and asset master data and schedule, cost, contract, and change records
  6. 06Validate journeycreate the property, project, lease, or work package through report portfolio performance and retain evidence
  7. 07Learn and improveEstablished a scalable container operating model. Correct the detection and prevention gap.
51ordered steps
8execution phases
51quality gates

Discover the estate

9 steps

Define scope and outcomes, inventory the current estate, map dependencies, classify data, and establish business, performance, recovery, cost, and licensing baselines.

01
Define migration charter and scopeOwner: Executive sponsor, program manager, architect, and workload owner
Purpose

State the business reason, workloads, locations, target outcome, boundaries, assumptions, timeline, budget, success measures, and constraints.

Project application

Define migration charter and scope is where the team must replace migration assumptions with a trusted source baseline. The team traces the change through “create the property, project, lease, or work package”, including its reliance on identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services and its effect on schedule, cost, contract, and change records. The relevant project scope is concrete: Mapped monolith modules, database coupling, sessions, files, search, payments, and partner integrations. Apply offline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection to address the risk that migration breaks historical document links or contractual audit trails; judge the result using document and master-data reconciliation.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputCreate the property, project, lease, or work package with mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals
  2. 02Define migration charter and scopeInventory assets, transactions, dependencies, data obligations, criticality, performance, cost, licenses, downtime, and recovery needs
  3. 03Control pointRole-based approval and immutable change history
  4. 04EvidenceApproved migration charter, Scope and success scorecard using S3, Terraform, Argo CD
  5. 05Exit decisionThe migration has a funded owner, measurable outcome, agreed boundary, and decision authority. Confirm field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “capture budget, schedule, document, and approval state”. Identify scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges, drawings, documents, approvals, and handover evidence, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use S3, Terraform, Argo CD, AWS to inventory assets, transactions, dependencies, data obligations, criticality, performance, cost, licenses, downtime, and recovery needs. Project scope for this action: Mapped monolith modules, database coupling, sessions, files, search, payments, and partner integrations. Keep role-based approval and immutable change history active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Approved migration charter, Scope and success scorecard, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires schedule and cost data freshness to support the intended result: reduced release coupling through incremental service extraction, without allowing site and office records diverge during intermittent connectivity.
Required evidence
  • Approved migration charter
  • Scope and success scorecard
Applicable tools
S3TerraformArgo CDAWS
Exit gate

The migration has a funded owner, measurable outcome, agreed boundary, and decision authority.

02
Identify stakeholders and decision ownersOwner: Program manager and business owner
Purpose

Map application, data, infrastructure, network, identity, security, compliance, vendor, finance, support, and business decision makers.

Project application

At this point, identify stakeholders and decision owners must replace migration assumptions with a trusted source baseline. In the construction and property services context, the work follows the journey from “capture budget, schedule, document, and approval state” through scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges. The protected business boundary is drawings, documents, approvals, and handover evidence. Existing project evidence establishes the delivery context: Designed EKS, registry, database, object storage, search, identity, observability, and deployment foundations. Apply role-based approval and immutable change history to address the risk that site and office records diverge during intermittent connectivity; judge the result using field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputCapture budget, schedule, document, and approval state with identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services
  2. 02Identify stakeholders and decision ownersInventory assets, transactions, dependencies, data obligations, criticality, performance, cost, licenses, downtime, and recovery needs
  3. 03Control pointBusiness-calendar cutover with representative project validation
  4. 04EvidenceStakeholder RACI, Governance and escalation calendar using OpenSearch, S3, Terraform
  5. 05Exit decisionEvery architecture, cutover, risk, business-validation, and rollback decision has a named accountable owner. Confirm workflow, approval, and work-order completion.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “coordinate site, contractor, tenant, or vendor activity”. Identify ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems, vendor, tenant, payment, and service histories, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use OpenSearch, S3, Terraform, AWS to inventory assets, transactions, dependencies, data obligations, criticality, performance, cost, licenses, downtime, and recovery needs. Project scope for this action: Designed EKS, registry, database, object storage, search, identity, observability, and deployment foundations. Keep business-calendar cutover with representative project validation active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Stakeholder RACI, Governance and escalation calendar, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires document and master-data reconciliation to support the intended result: maintained listing and payment consistency during coexistence, without allowing cost, schedule, document, or approval status is lost or duplicated.
Required evidence
  • Stakeholder RACI
  • Governance and escalation calendar
Applicable tools
OpenSearchS3TerraformAWS
Exit gate

Every architecture, cutover, risk, business-validation, and rollback decision has a named accountable owner.

03
Inventory source assetsOwner: Discovery team and source-platform owners
Purpose

Record servers, VMs, clusters, databases, storage, applications, services, jobs, middleware, network devices, licenses, versions, and ownership.

Project application

The practical purpose of inventory source assets is to replace migration assumptions with a trusted source baseline. The implementation follows “coordinate site, contractor, tenant, or vendor activity” across ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems. The protected business boundary is vendor, tenant, payment, and service histories. The implementation anchor comes from the project’s recorded scope: Containerized services and applied strangler routing with backward-compatible API and schema changes. Apply business-calendar cutover with representative project validation to address the risk that cost, schedule, document, or approval status is lost or duplicated; judge the result using workflow, approval, and work-order completion.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputCoordinate site, contractor, tenant, or vendor activity with scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges
  2. 02Inventory source assetsInventory assets, transactions, dependencies, data obligations, criticality, performance, cost, licenses, downtime, and recovery needs
  3. 03Control pointMaster-data and document-link reconciliation
  4. 04EvidenceValidated source inventory, Asset completeness report using ECR, Aurora, OpenSearch
  5. 05Exit decisionInventory findings reconcile with source management systems and unexplained assets have an investigation owner. Confirm schedule and cost data freshness.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “record progress, cost, issue, and change”. Identify mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals, project, property, lease, and asset master data, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use ECR, Aurora, OpenSearch, AWS to inventory assets, transactions, dependencies, data obligations, criticality, performance, cost, licenses, downtime, and recovery needs. Project scope for this action: Containerized services and applied strangler routing with backward-compatible API and schema changes. Keep master-data and document-link reconciliation active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Validated source inventory, Asset completeness report, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog to support the intended result: established a scalable container operating model, without allowing a release blocks field work, tenant service, or payment approval.
Required evidence
  • Validated source inventory
  • Asset completeness report
Applicable tools
ECRAuroraOpenSearchAWS
Exit gate

Inventory findings reconcile with source management systems and unexplained assets have an investigation owner.

04
Discover application dependenciesOwner: Application architect, network, and observability teams
Purpose

Map synchronous calls, queues, files, databases, identity, DNS, certificates, batch schedules, ports, protocols, vendors, users, and operational tools.

Project application

This step turns discover application dependencies into a controlled decision: replace migration assumptions with a trusted source baseline. The team traces the change through “record progress, cost, issue, and change”, including its reliance on mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals and its effect on project, property, lease, and asset master data. The relevant project scope is concrete: Rehearsed listing, application, payment, document, and notification reconciliation. Apply master-data and document-link reconciliation to address the risk that a release blocks field work, tenant service, or payment approval; judge the result using schedule and cost data freshness.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputRecord progress, cost, issue, and change with ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems
  2. 02Discover application dependenciesInventory assets, transactions, dependencies, data obligations, criticality, performance, cost, licenses, downtime, and recovery needs
  3. 03Control pointOffline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection
  4. 04EvidenceDependency map, Critical transaction flow using OpenSearch, S3, Terraform
  5. 05Exit decisionEach in-scope workload has a complete inbound, outbound, timing, ownership, and failure-behavior view. Confirm document and master-data reconciliation.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “approve payment, handover, or service completion”. Identify identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services, schedule, cost, contract, and change records, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use OpenSearch, S3, Terraform, AWS to inventory assets, transactions, dependencies, data obligations, criticality, performance, cost, licenses, downtime, and recovery needs. Project scope for this action: Rehearsed listing, application, payment, document, and notification reconciliation. Keep offline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Dependency map, Critical transaction flow, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires workflow, approval, and work-order completion to support the intended result: reduced release coupling through incremental service extraction, without allowing migration breaks historical document links or contractual audit trails.
Required evidence
  • Dependency map
  • Critical transaction flow
Applicable tools
OpenSearchS3TerraformAWS
Exit gate

Each in-scope workload has a complete inbound, outbound, timing, ownership, and failure-behavior view.

05
Classify data and compliance obligationsOwner: Data owner, security, privacy, and compliance
Purpose

Identify sensitive classes, residency, sovereignty, encryption, retention, legal hold, audit, transfer, deletion, and access requirements.

Project application

Classify data and compliance obligations is where the team must replace migration assumptions with a trusted source baseline. In the construction and property services context, the work follows the journey from “approve payment, handover, or service completion” through identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services. The protected business boundary is schedule, cost, contract, and change records. Existing project evidence establishes the delivery context: Shifted traffic gradually and retired monolith capabilities only after stable operation. Apply offline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection to address the risk that migration breaks historical document links or contractual audit trails; judge the result using document and master-data reconciliation.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputApprove payment, handover, or service completion with mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals
  2. 02Classify data and compliance obligationsInventory assets, transactions, dependencies, data obligations, criticality, performance, cost, licenses, downtime, and recovery needs
  3. 03Control pointRole-based approval and immutable change history
  4. 04EvidenceData classification register, Compliance control mapping using Aurora, OpenSearch, S3
  5. 05Exit decisionThe target and transfer design can satisfy every applicable control or has a formally accepted exception. Confirm field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “report portfolio performance and retain evidence”. Identify scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges, drawings, documents, approvals, and handover evidence, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use Aurora, OpenSearch, S3, AWS to inventory assets, transactions, dependencies, data obligations, criticality, performance, cost, licenses, downtime, and recovery needs. Project scope for this action: Shifted traffic gradually and retired monolith capabilities only after stable operation. Keep role-based approval and immutable change history active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Data classification register, Compliance control mapping, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires schedule and cost data freshness to support the intended result: maintained listing and payment consistency during coexistence, without allowing site and office records diverge during intermittent connectivity.
Required evidence
  • Data classification register
  • Compliance control mapping
Applicable tools
AuroraOpenSearchS3AWS
Exit gate

The target and transfer design can satisfy every applicable control or has a formally accepted exception.

06
Rank business criticalityOwner: Business continuity and workload owners
Purpose

Classify user impact, revenue, safety, regulatory, operational, seasonal, dependency, and outage consequences to prioritize migration waves.

Project application

At this point, rank business criticality must replace migration assumptions with a trusted source baseline. The implementation follows “report portfolio performance and retain evidence” across scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges. The protected business boundary is drawings, documents, approvals, and handover evidence. The implementation anchor comes from the project’s recorded scope: Mapped monolith modules, database coupling, sessions, files, search, payments, and partner integrations. Apply role-based approval and immutable change history to address the risk that site and office records diverge during intermittent connectivity; judge the result using field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputReport portfolio performance and retain evidence with identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services
  2. 02Rank business criticalityInventory assets, transactions, dependencies, data obligations, criticality, performance, cost, licenses, downtime, and recovery needs
  3. 03Control pointBusiness-calendar cutover with representative project validation
  4. 04EvidenceCriticality tier matrix, Business blackout calendar using OpenSearch, S3, Terraform
  5. 05Exit decisionWave order and downtime strategy reflect business impact and protected operating periods. Confirm workflow, approval, and work-order completion.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “create the property, project, lease, or work package”. Identify ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems, vendor, tenant, payment, and service histories, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use OpenSearch, S3, Terraform, AWS to inventory assets, transactions, dependencies, data obligations, criticality, performance, cost, licenses, downtime, and recovery needs. Project scope for this action: Mapped monolith modules, database coupling, sessions, files, search, payments, and partner integrations. Keep business-calendar cutover with representative project validation active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Criticality tier matrix, Business blackout calendar, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires document and master-data reconciliation to support the intended result: established a scalable container operating model, without allowing cost, schedule, document, or approval status is lost or duplicated.
Required evidence
  • Criticality tier matrix
  • Business blackout calendar
Applicable tools
OpenSearchS3TerraformAWS
Exit gate

Wave order and downtime strategy reflect business impact and protected operating periods.

07
Capture performance and capacity baselineOwner: Performance engineering and platform operations
Purpose

Measure CPU, memory, storage, IOPS, throughput, latency, concurrency, growth, batch windows, peaks, and dependency response under representative load.

Project application

The practical purpose of capture performance and capacity baseline is to replace migration assumptions with a trusted source baseline. The team traces the change through “create the property, project, lease, or work package”, including its reliance on ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems and its effect on vendor, tenant, payment, and service histories. The relevant project scope is concrete: Designed EKS, registry, database, object storage, search, identity, observability, and deployment foundations. Apply business-calendar cutover with representative project validation to address the risk that cost, schedule, document, or approval status is lost or duplicated; judge the result using workflow, approval, and work-order completion.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputCreate the property, project, lease, or work package with scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges
  2. 02Capture performance and capacity baselineInventory assets, transactions, dependencies, data obligations, criticality, performance, cost, licenses, downtime, and recovery needs
  3. 03Control pointMaster-data and document-link reconciliation
  4. 04EvidenceSource performance baseline, Capacity and growth profile using OpenSearch, S3, Terraform
  5. 05Exit decisionTarget sizing and validation thresholds use measured percentiles and peaks instead of static allocations alone. Confirm schedule and cost data freshness.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “capture budget, schedule, document, and approval state”. Identify mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals, project, property, lease, and asset master data, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use OpenSearch, S3, Terraform, AWS to inventory assets, transactions, dependencies, data obligations, criticality, performance, cost, licenses, downtime, and recovery needs. Project scope for this action: Designed EKS, registry, database, object storage, search, identity, observability, and deployment foundations. Keep master-data and document-link reconciliation active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Source performance baseline, Capacity and growth profile, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog to support the intended result: reduced release coupling through incremental service extraction, without allowing a release blocks field work, tenant service, or payment approval.
Required evidence
  • Source performance baseline
  • Capacity and growth profile
Applicable tools
OpenSearchS3TerraformAWS
Exit gate

Target sizing and validation thresholds use measured percentiles and peaks instead of static allocations alone.

08
Capture cost and license baselineOwner: FinOps, procurement, and asset management
Purpose

Calculate infrastructure, support, facilities, software, network, backup, labor, commitment, and license costs plus contract and portability constraints.

Project application

This step turns capture cost and license baseline into a controlled decision: replace migration assumptions with a trusted source baseline. In the construction and property services context, the work follows the journey from “capture budget, schedule, document, and approval state” through mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals. The protected business boundary is project, property, lease, and asset master data. Existing project evidence establishes the delivery context: Containerized services and applied strangler routing with backward-compatible API and schema changes. Apply master-data and document-link reconciliation to address the risk that a release blocks field work, tenant service, or payment approval; judge the result using schedule and cost data freshness.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputCapture budget, schedule, document, and approval state with ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems
  2. 02Capture cost and license baselineInventory assets, transactions, dependencies, data obligations, criticality, performance, cost, licenses, downtime, and recovery needs
  3. 03Control pointOffline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection
  4. 04EvidenceCurrent total-cost baseline, License and contract constraint register using OpenSearch, S3, Terraform
  5. 05Exit decisionThe target business case includes comparable cost, one-time migration cost, termination risk, and license eligibility. Confirm document and master-data reconciliation.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “coordinate site, contractor, tenant, or vendor activity”. Identify identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services, schedule, cost, contract, and change records, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use OpenSearch, S3, Terraform, AWS to inventory assets, transactions, dependencies, data obligations, criticality, performance, cost, licenses, downtime, and recovery needs. Project scope for this action: Containerized services and applied strangler routing with backward-compatible API and schema changes. Keep offline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Current total-cost baseline, License and contract constraint register, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires workflow, approval, and work-order completion to support the intended result: maintained listing and payment consistency during coexistence, without allowing migration breaks historical document links or contractual audit trails.
Required evidence
  • Current total-cost baseline
  • License and contract constraint register
Applicable tools
OpenSearchS3TerraformAWS
Exit gate

The target business case includes comparable cost, one-time migration cost, termination risk, and license eligibility.

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Confirm downtime and recovery objectivesOwner: Business owner, continuity, data, and architecture leads
Purpose

Agree cutover outage, RTO, RPO, data-loss tolerance, rollback time, service priority, and business validation window for every tier.

Project application

Confirm downtime and recovery objectives is where the team must replace migration assumptions with a trusted source baseline. The implementation follows “coordinate site, contractor, tenant, or vendor activity” across identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services. The protected business boundary is schedule, cost, contract, and change records. The implementation anchor comes from the project’s recorded scope: Rehearsed listing, application, payment, document, and notification reconciliation. Apply offline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection to address the risk that migration breaks historical document links or contractual audit trails; judge the result using document and master-data reconciliation.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputCoordinate site, contractor, tenant, or vendor activity with mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals
  2. 02Confirm downtime and recovery objectivesInventory assets, transactions, dependencies, data obligations, criticality, performance, cost, licenses, downtime, and recovery needs
  3. 03Control pointRole-based approval and immutable change history
  4. 04EvidenceDowntime and RTO/RPO matrix, Approved recovery assumptions using Aurora, OpenSearch, S3
  5. 05Exit decisionThe migration method and rollback window can meet the approved business tolerances. Confirm field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “record progress, cost, issue, and change”. Identify scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges, drawings, documents, approvals, and handover evidence, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use Aurora, OpenSearch, S3, AWS to inventory assets, transactions, dependencies, data obligations, criticality, performance, cost, licenses, downtime, and recovery needs. Project scope for this action: Rehearsed listing, application, payment, document, and notification reconciliation. Keep role-based approval and immutable change history active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Downtime and RTO/RPO matrix, Approved recovery assumptions, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires schedule and cost data freshness to support the intended result: established a scalable container operating model, without allowing site and office records diverge during intermittent connectivity.
Required evidence
  • Downtime and RTO/RPO matrix
  • Approved recovery assumptions
Applicable tools
AuroraOpenSearchS3AWS
Exit gate

The migration method and rollback window can meet the approved business tolerances.

Design the destination

11 steps

Select the migration disposition and design a secure, available, scalable, observable, recoverable, supportable, and cost-owned target architecture.

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Select the migration dispositionOwner: Architecture review board and workload owner
Purpose

Choose rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retain, retire, relocate, or a staged combination based on value, risk, compatibility, and timeline.

Project application

At this point, select the migration disposition must choose a target that is operable, secure, recoverable, and economically owned. The team traces the change through “record progress, cost, issue, and change”, including its reliance on scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges and its effect on drawings, documents, approvals, and handover evidence. The relevant project scope is concrete: Shifted traffic gradually and retired monolith capabilities only after stable operation. Apply role-based approval and immutable change history to address the risk that site and office records diverge during intermittent connectivity; judge the result using field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputRecord progress, cost, issue, and change with identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services
  2. 02Select the migration dispositionDecide workload disposition and design landing-zone, network, identity, data, security, scaling, backup, observability, and support boundaries
  3. 03Control pointBusiness-calendar cutover with representative project validation
  4. 04EvidenceDisposition decision record, Workload treatment backlog using Aurora, OpenSearch, S3
  5. 05Exit decisionEach workload has a justified strategy, owner, dependencies, target, effort estimate, and exception path. Confirm workflow, approval, and work-order completion.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “approve payment, handover, or service completion”. Identify ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems, vendor, tenant, payment, and service histories, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use Aurora, OpenSearch, S3, AWS to decide workload disposition and design landing-zone, network, identity, data, security, scaling, backup, observability, and support boundaries. Project scope for this action: Shifted traffic gradually and retired monolith capabilities only after stable operation. Keep business-calendar cutover with representative project validation active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Disposition decision record, Workload treatment backlog, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires document and master-data reconciliation to support the intended result: reduced release coupling through incremental service extraction, without allowing cost, schedule, document, or approval status is lost or duplicated.
Required evidence
  • Disposition decision record
  • Workload treatment backlog
Applicable tools
AuroraOpenSearchS3AWS
Exit gate

Each workload has a justified strategy, owner, dependencies, target, effort estimate, and exception path.

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Design the target architectureOwner: Solution, cloud, data, network, and security architects
Purpose

Define user entry, compute, data, integration, identity, network, observability, backup, recovery, scaling, and operational boundaries in the destination.

Project application

The practical purpose of design the target architecture is to choose a target that is operable, secure, recoverable, and economically owned. In the construction and property services context, the work follows the journey from “approve payment, handover, or service completion” through ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems. The protected business boundary is vendor, tenant, payment, and service histories. Existing project evidence establishes the delivery context: Mapped monolith modules, database coupling, sessions, files, search, payments, and partner integrations. Apply business-calendar cutover with representative project validation to address the risk that cost, schedule, document, or approval status is lost or duplicated; judge the result using workflow, approval, and work-order completion.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputApprove payment, handover, or service completion with scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges
  2. 02Design the target architectureDecide workload disposition and design landing-zone, network, identity, data, security, scaling, backup, observability, and support boundaries
  3. 03Control pointMaster-data and document-link reconciliation
  4. 04EvidenceTarget architecture and flows, Architecture decision records using AWS EKS, ECR, Aurora
  5. 05Exit decisionThe destination meets functional, non-functional, compliance, operational, and migration requirements without unexplained dependencies. Confirm schedule and cost data freshness.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “report portfolio performance and retain evidence”. Identify mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals, project, property, lease, and asset master data, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use AWS EKS, ECR, Aurora, AWS to decide workload disposition and design landing-zone, network, identity, data, security, scaling, backup, observability, and support boundaries. Project scope for this action: Mapped monolith modules, database coupling, sessions, files, search, payments, and partner integrations. Keep master-data and document-link reconciliation active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Target architecture and flows, Architecture decision records, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog to support the intended result: maintained listing and payment consistency during coexistence, without allowing a release blocks field work, tenant service, or payment approval.
Required evidence
  • Target architecture and flows
  • Architecture decision records
Applicable tools
AWS EKSECRAuroraAWS
Exit gate

The destination meets functional, non-functional, compliance, operational, and migration requirements without unexplained dependencies.

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Design accounts, subscriptions, and landing-zone structureOwner: Cloud platform and enterprise architecture
Purpose

Separate environments and workloads using management groups, accounts, subscriptions, projects, resource groups, naming, tags, policy, budgets, and ownership.

Project application

This step turns design accounts, subscriptions, and landing-zone structure into a controlled decision: choose a target that is operable, secure, recoverable, and economically owned. The implementation follows “report portfolio performance and retain evidence” across mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals. The protected business boundary is project, property, lease, and asset master data. The implementation anchor comes from the project’s recorded scope: Designed EKS, registry, database, object storage, search, identity, observability, and deployment foundations. Apply master-data and document-link reconciliation to address the risk that a release blocks field work, tenant service, or payment approval; judge the result using schedule and cost data freshness.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputReport portfolio performance and retain evidence with ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems
  2. 02Design accounts, subscriptions, and landing-zone structureDecide workload disposition and design landing-zone, network, identity, data, security, scaling, backup, observability, and support boundaries
  3. 03Control pointOffline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection
  4. 04EvidenceLanding-zone hierarchy, Naming, tagging, and ownership standard using S3, Terraform, Argo CD
  5. 05Exit decisionEach target resource has the correct isolation, policy inheritance, cost owner, environment, and lifecycle boundary. Confirm document and master-data reconciliation.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “create the property, project, lease, or work package”. Identify identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services, schedule, cost, contract, and change records, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use S3, Terraform, Argo CD, AWS to decide workload disposition and design landing-zone, network, identity, data, security, scaling, backup, observability, and support boundaries. Project scope for this action: Designed EKS, registry, database, object storage, search, identity, observability, and deployment foundations. Keep offline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Landing-zone hierarchy, Naming, tagging, and ownership standard, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires workflow, approval, and work-order completion to support the intended result: established a scalable container operating model, without allowing migration breaks historical document links or contractual audit trails.
Required evidence
  • Landing-zone hierarchy
  • Naming, tagging, and ownership standard
Applicable tools
S3TerraformArgo CDAWS
Exit gate

Each target resource has the correct isolation, policy inheritance, cost owner, environment, and lifecycle boundary.

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Design connectivity and DNSOwner: Network, cloud platform, and security teams
Purpose

Plan address space, routing, peering, VPN or private connectivity, firewalls, load balancing, ingress, egress, proxies, private endpoints, DNS, and cutover TTL.

Project application

Design connectivity and DNS is where the team must choose a target that is operable, secure, recoverable, and economically owned. The team traces the change through “create the property, project, lease, or work package”, including its reliance on identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services and its effect on schedule, cost, contract, and change records. The relevant project scope is concrete: Containerized services and applied strangler routing with backward-compatible API and schema changes. Apply offline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection to address the risk that migration breaks historical document links or contractual audit trails; judge the result using document and master-data reconciliation.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputCreate the property, project, lease, or work package with mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals
  2. 02Design connectivity and DNSDecide workload disposition and design landing-zone, network, identity, data, security, scaling, backup, observability, and support boundaries
  3. 03Control pointRole-based approval and immutable change history
  4. 04EvidenceNetwork and DNS design, Connectivity and traffic matrix using Terraform, Argo CD, CloudWatch
  5. 05Exit decisionSource, target, users, dependencies, management, and recovery paths are routable without overlapping ranges or unintended exposure. Confirm field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “capture budget, schedule, document, and approval state”. Identify scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges, drawings, documents, approvals, and handover evidence, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use Terraform, Argo CD, CloudWatch, AWS to decide workload disposition and design landing-zone, network, identity, data, security, scaling, backup, observability, and support boundaries. Project scope for this action: Containerized services and applied strangler routing with backward-compatible API and schema changes. Keep role-based approval and immutable change history active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Network and DNS design, Connectivity and traffic matrix, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires schedule and cost data freshness to support the intended result: reduced release coupling through incremental service extraction, without allowing site and office records diverge during intermittent connectivity.
Required evidence
  • Network and DNS design
  • Connectivity and traffic matrix
Applicable tools
TerraformArgo CDCloudWatchAWS
Exit gate

Source, target, users, dependencies, management, and recovery paths are routable without overlapping ranges or unintended exposure.

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Design identity and accessOwner: Identity, security, platform, and workload owners
Purpose

Map users, groups, service identities, federation, managed identity, RBAC, privileged activation, emergency access, and separation of duties.

Project application

At this point, design identity and access must choose a target that is operable, secure, recoverable, and economically owned. In the construction and property services context, the work follows the journey from “capture budget, schedule, document, and approval state” through scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges. The protected business boundary is drawings, documents, approvals, and handover evidence. Existing project evidence establishes the delivery context: Rehearsed listing, application, payment, document, and notification reconciliation. Apply role-based approval and immutable change history to address the risk that site and office records diverge during intermittent connectivity; judge the result using field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputCapture budget, schedule, document, and approval state with identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services
  2. 02Design identity and accessDecide workload disposition and design landing-zone, network, identity, data, security, scaling, backup, observability, and support boundaries
  3. 03Control pointBusiness-calendar cutover with representative project validation
  4. 04EvidenceIdentity and RBAC mapping, Authentication and privileged-access design using S3, Terraform, Argo CD
  5. 05Exit decisionHuman and workload access follows least privilege and has a migration, test, audit, and rollback approach. Confirm workflow, approval, and work-order completion.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “coordinate site, contractor, tenant, or vendor activity”. Identify ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems, vendor, tenant, payment, and service histories, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use S3, Terraform, Argo CD, AWS to decide workload disposition and design landing-zone, network, identity, data, security, scaling, backup, observability, and support boundaries. Project scope for this action: Rehearsed listing, application, payment, document, and notification reconciliation. Keep business-calendar cutover with representative project validation active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Identity and RBAC mapping, Authentication and privileged-access design, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires document and master-data reconciliation to support the intended result: maintained listing and payment consistency during coexistence, without allowing cost, schedule, document, or approval status is lost or duplicated.
Required evidence
  • Identity and RBAC mapping
  • Authentication and privileged-access design
Applicable tools
S3TerraformArgo CDAWS
Exit gate

Human and workload access follows least privilege and has a migration, test, audit, and rollback approach.

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Design security and compliance controlsOwner: Security architecture and compliance
Purpose

Define segmentation, hardening, vulnerability management, endpoint protection, policy, logging, threat detection, incident response, and evidence collection.

Project application

The practical purpose of design security and compliance controls is to choose a target that is operable, secure, recoverable, and economically owned. The implementation follows “coordinate site, contractor, tenant, or vendor activity” across ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems. The protected business boundary is vendor, tenant, payment, and service histories. The implementation anchor comes from the project’s recorded scope: Shifted traffic gradually and retired monolith capabilities only after stable operation. Apply business-calendar cutover with representative project validation to address the risk that cost, schedule, document, or approval status is lost or duplicated; judge the result using workflow, approval, and work-order completion.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputCoordinate site, contractor, tenant, or vendor activity with scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges
  2. 02Design security and compliance controlsDecide workload disposition and design landing-zone, network, identity, data, security, scaling, backup, observability, and support boundaries
  3. 03Control pointMaster-data and document-link reconciliation
  4. 04EvidenceTarget security control matrix, Threat model and remediation plan using ECR, Aurora, OpenSearch
  5. 05Exit decisionRequired controls are automated, testable, owned, and connected to migration release gates. Confirm schedule and cost data freshness.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “record progress, cost, issue, and change”. Identify mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals, project, property, lease, and asset master data, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use ECR, Aurora, OpenSearch, AWS to decide workload disposition and design landing-zone, network, identity, data, security, scaling, backup, observability, and support boundaries. Project scope for this action: Shifted traffic gradually and retired monolith capabilities only after stable operation. Keep master-data and document-link reconciliation active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Target security control matrix, Threat model and remediation plan, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog to support the intended result: established a scalable container operating model, without allowing a release blocks field work, tenant service, or payment approval.
Required evidence
  • Target security control matrix
  • Threat model and remediation plan
Applicable tools
ECRAuroraOpenSearchAWS
Exit gate

Required controls are automated, testable, owned, and connected to migration release gates.

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Design encryption, keys, and secretsOwner: Security, PKI, data, and application teams
Purpose

Plan encryption in transit and at rest, key ownership, HSM or vault usage, secret transfer or rotation, certificate trust, custody, and recovery.

Project application

This step turns design encryption, keys, and secrets into a controlled decision: choose a target that is operable, secure, recoverable, and economically owned. The team traces the change through “record progress, cost, issue, and change”, including its reliance on mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals and its effect on project, property, lease, and asset master data. The relevant project scope is concrete: Mapped monolith modules, database coupling, sessions, files, search, payments, and partner integrations. Apply master-data and document-link reconciliation to address the risk that a release blocks field work, tenant service, or payment approval; judge the result using schedule and cost data freshness.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputRecord progress, cost, issue, and change with ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems
  2. 02Design encryption, keys, and secretsDecide workload disposition and design landing-zone, network, identity, data, security, scaling, backup, observability, and support boundaries
  3. 03Control pointOffline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection
  4. 04EvidenceKey and secret migration plan, Certificate and trust inventory using Argo CD, CloudWatch, AWS EKS
  5. 05Exit decisionNo credential or private key is embedded in code, copied insecurely, left ownerless, or missing a rotation and rollback path. Confirm document and master-data reconciliation.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “approve payment, handover, or service completion”. Identify identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services, schedule, cost, contract, and change records, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use Argo CD, CloudWatch, AWS EKS, AWS to decide workload disposition and design landing-zone, network, identity, data, security, scaling, backup, observability, and support boundaries. Project scope for this action: Mapped monolith modules, database coupling, sessions, files, search, payments, and partner integrations. Keep offline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Key and secret migration plan, Certificate and trust inventory, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires workflow, approval, and work-order completion to support the intended result: reduced release coupling through incremental service extraction, without allowing migration breaks historical document links or contractual audit trails.
Required evidence
  • Key and secret migration plan
  • Certificate and trust inventory
Applicable tools
Argo CDCloudWatchAWS EKSAWS
Exit gate

No credential or private key is embedded in code, copied insecurely, left ownerless, or missing a rotation and rollback path.

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Size the target platformOwner: Platform architecture, performance engineering, and FinOps
Purpose

Translate measured load, growth, service limits, redundancy, burst, licensing, and recovery capacity into target compute, data, storage, and network sizing.

Project application

Size the target platform is where the team must choose a target that is operable, secure, recoverable, and economically owned. In the construction and property services context, the work follows the journey from “approve payment, handover, or service completion” through identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services. The protected business boundary is schedule, cost, contract, and change records. Existing project evidence establishes the delivery context: Designed EKS, registry, database, object storage, search, identity, observability, and deployment foundations. Apply offline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection to address the risk that migration breaks historical document links or contractual audit trails; judge the result using document and master-data reconciliation.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputApprove payment, handover, or service completion with mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals
  2. 02Size the target platformDecide workload disposition and design landing-zone, network, identity, data, security, scaling, backup, observability, and support boundaries
  3. 03Control pointRole-based approval and immutable change history
  4. 04EvidenceTarget sizing model, Quota and cost forecast using Aurora, OpenSearch, S3
  5. 05Exit decisionCapacity supports peak and failure scenarios with approved headroom, quota, and cost. Confirm field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “report portfolio performance and retain evidence”. Identify scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges, drawings, documents, approvals, and handover evidence, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use Aurora, OpenSearch, S3, AWS to decide workload disposition and design landing-zone, network, identity, data, security, scaling, backup, observability, and support boundaries. Project scope for this action: Designed EKS, registry, database, object storage, search, identity, observability, and deployment foundations. Keep role-based approval and immutable change history active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Target sizing model, Quota and cost forecast, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires schedule and cost data freshness to support the intended result: maintained listing and payment consistency during coexistence, without allowing site and office records diverge during intermittent connectivity.
Required evidence
  • Target sizing model
  • Quota and cost forecast
Applicable tools
AuroraOpenSearchS3AWS
Exit gate

Capacity supports peak and failure scenarios with approved headroom, quota, and cost.

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Design availability and scalingOwner: Solution architect and SRE
Purpose

Choose zones, regions, replicas, load distribution, autoscaling signals, session behavior, state placement, rate limits, and degradation strategies.

Project application

At this point, design availability and scaling must choose a target that is operable, secure, recoverable, and economically owned. The implementation follows “report portfolio performance and retain evidence” across scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges. The protected business boundary is drawings, documents, approvals, and handover evidence. The implementation anchor comes from the project’s recorded scope: Containerized services and applied strangler routing with backward-compatible API and schema changes. Apply role-based approval and immutable change history to address the risk that site and office records diverge during intermittent connectivity; judge the result using field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputReport portfolio performance and retain evidence with identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services
  2. 02Design availability and scalingDecide workload disposition and design landing-zone, network, identity, data, security, scaling, backup, observability, and support boundaries
  3. 03Control pointBusiness-calendar cutover with representative project validation
  4. 04EvidenceAvailability and scaling design, Failure-mode analysis using ECR, Aurora, OpenSearch
  5. 05Exit decisionNo required service target relies on a single unprotected component or an untested scaling assumption. Confirm workflow, approval, and work-order completion.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “create the property, project, lease, or work package”. Identify ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems, vendor, tenant, payment, and service histories, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use ECR, Aurora, OpenSearch, AWS to decide workload disposition and design landing-zone, network, identity, data, security, scaling, backup, observability, and support boundaries. Project scope for this action: Containerized services and applied strangler routing with backward-compatible API and schema changes. Keep business-calendar cutover with representative project validation active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Availability and scaling design, Failure-mode analysis, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires document and master-data reconciliation to support the intended result: established a scalable container operating model, without allowing cost, schedule, document, or approval status is lost or duplicated.
Required evidence
  • Availability and scaling design
  • Failure-mode analysis
Applicable tools
ECRAuroraOpenSearchAWS
Exit gate

No required service target relies on a single unprotected component or an untested scaling assumption.

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Design backup and disaster recoveryOwner: Business continuity, data, security, and platform teams
Purpose

Define protected assets, frequency, retention, immutable copies, cross-region or cross-account recovery, orchestration, DNS, failback, and testing.

Project application

The practical purpose of design backup and disaster recovery is to choose a target that is operable, secure, recoverable, and economically owned. The team traces the change through “create the property, project, lease, or work package”, including its reliance on ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems and its effect on vendor, tenant, payment, and service histories. The relevant project scope is concrete: Rehearsed listing, application, payment, document, and notification reconciliation. Apply business-calendar cutover with representative project validation to address the risk that cost, schedule, document, or approval status is lost or duplicated; judge the result using workflow, approval, and work-order completion.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputCreate the property, project, lease, or work package with scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges
  2. 02Design backup and disaster recoveryDecide workload disposition and design landing-zone, network, identity, data, security, scaling, backup, observability, and support boundaries
  3. 03Control pointMaster-data and document-link reconciliation
  4. 04EvidenceBackup and DR architecture, Restore and failover test plan using Terraform, Argo CD, CloudWatch
  5. 05Exit decisionThe complete target service can recover within approved RPO/RTO and protected copies meet security and retention obligations. Confirm schedule and cost data freshness.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “capture budget, schedule, document, and approval state”. Identify mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals, project, property, lease, and asset master data, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use Terraform, Argo CD, CloudWatch, AWS to decide workload disposition and design landing-zone, network, identity, data, security, scaling, backup, observability, and support boundaries. Project scope for this action: Rehearsed listing, application, payment, document, and notification reconciliation. Keep master-data and document-link reconciliation active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Backup and DR architecture, Restore and failover test plan, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog to support the intended result: reduced release coupling through incremental service extraction, without allowing a release blocks field work, tenant service, or payment approval.
Required evidence
  • Backup and DR architecture
  • Restore and failover test plan
Applicable tools
TerraformArgo CDCloudWatchAWS
Exit gate

The complete target service can recover within approved RPO/RTO and protected copies meet security and retention obligations.

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Design observability and supportOwner: SRE, observability engineering, and support lead
Purpose

Specify metrics, logs, traces, business journeys, alerts, dashboards, retention, on-call routing, runbooks, service catalogue, and operational ownership.

Project application

This step turns design observability and support into a controlled decision: choose a target that is operable, secure, recoverable, and economically owned. In the construction and property services context, the work follows the journey from “capture budget, schedule, document, and approval state” through mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals. The protected business boundary is project, property, lease, and asset master data. Existing project evidence establishes the delivery context: Shifted traffic gradually and retired monolith capabilities only after stable operation. Apply master-data and document-link reconciliation to address the risk that a release blocks field work, tenant service, or payment approval; judge the result using schedule and cost data freshness.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputCapture budget, schedule, document, and approval state with ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems
  2. 02Design observability and supportDecide workload disposition and design landing-zone, network, identity, data, security, scaling, backup, observability, and support boundaries
  3. 03Control pointOffline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection
  4. 04EvidenceObservability design, Target operating model and support RACI using Aurora, OpenSearch, S3
  5. 05Exit decisionThe migrated service can be detected, diagnosed, restored, and escalated from day one. Confirm document and master-data reconciliation.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “coordinate site, contractor, tenant, or vendor activity”. Identify identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services, schedule, cost, contract, and change records, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use Aurora, OpenSearch, S3, AWS to decide workload disposition and design landing-zone, network, identity, data, security, scaling, backup, observability, and support boundaries. Project scope for this action: Shifted traffic gradually and retired monolith capabilities only after stable operation. Keep offline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Observability design, Target operating model and support RACI, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires workflow, approval, and work-order completion to support the intended result: maintained listing and payment consistency during coexistence, without allowing migration breaks historical document links or contractual audit trails.
Required evidence
  • Observability design
  • Target operating model and support RACI
Applicable tools
AuroraOpenSearchS3AWS
Exit gate

The migrated service can be detected, diagnosed, restored, and escalated from day one.

Build the landing zone

4 steps

Provision governed target foundations through versioned infrastructure code and prove identity, network, policy, security, monitoring, and operational readiness.

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Create reusable infrastructure modules and stateOwner: Platform engineering and DevOps
Purpose

Build reviewed modules for governance, network, identity, security, compute, data, storage, monitoring, backup, and recovery with protected remote state.

Project application

Create reusable infrastructure modules and state is where the team must create the governed destination before moving business workload. The implementation follows “coordinate site, contractor, tenant, or vendor activity” across identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services. The protected business boundary is schedule, cost, contract, and change records. The implementation anchor comes from the project’s recorded scope: Mapped monolith modules, database coupling, sessions, files, search, payments, and partner integrations. Apply offline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection to address the risk that migration breaks historical document links or contractual audit trails; judge the result using document and master-data reconciliation.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputCoordinate site, contractor, tenant, or vendor activity with mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals
  2. 02Create reusable infrastructure modules and stateProvision target environments from versioned modules and activate policy, identity, connectivity, logging, security, budget, and recovery foundations
  3. 03Control pointRole-based approval and immutable change history
  4. 04EvidenceVersioned infrastructure repository, Module tests and state controls using Aurora, OpenSearch, S3
  5. 05Exit decisionA clean target can be planned reproducibly with no secrets in state output or unmanaged manual dependency. Confirm field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “record progress, cost, issue, and change”. Identify scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges, drawings, documents, approvals, and handover evidence, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use Aurora, OpenSearch, S3, AWS to provision target environments from versioned modules and activate policy, identity, connectivity, logging, security, budget, and recovery foundations. Project scope for this action: Mapped monolith modules, database coupling, sessions, files, search, payments, and partner integrations. Keep role-based approval and immutable change history active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Versioned infrastructure repository, Module tests and state controls, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires schedule and cost data freshness to support the intended result: established a scalable container operating model, without allowing site and office records diverge during intermittent connectivity.
Required evidence
  • Versioned infrastructure repository
  • Module tests and state controls
Applicable tools
AuroraOpenSearchS3AWS
Exit gate

A clean target can be planned reproducibly with no secrets in state output or unmanaged manual dependency.

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Provision target environmentsOwner: DevOps and cloud platform engineering
Purpose

Create development, test, staging, production, and recovery foundations through approved automation and environment-specific configuration.

Project application

At this point, provision target environments must create the governed destination before moving business workload. The team traces the change through “record progress, cost, issue, and change”, including its reliance on scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges and its effect on drawings, documents, approvals, and handover evidence. The relevant project scope is concrete: Designed EKS, registry, database, object storage, search, identity, observability, and deployment foundations. Apply role-based approval and immutable change history to address the risk that site and office records diverge during intermittent connectivity; judge the result using field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputRecord progress, cost, issue, and change with identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services
  2. 02Provision target environmentsProvision target environments from versioned modules and activate policy, identity, connectivity, logging, security, budget, and recovery foundations
  3. 03Control pointBusiness-calendar cutover with representative project validation
  4. 04EvidencePlan/apply and deployment records, Environment inventory and ownership using CloudWatch, AWS EKS, ECR
  5. 05Exit decisionResources match reviewed code, naming, tags, isolation, policy, budget, identity, and observability requirements. Confirm workflow, approval, and work-order completion.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “approve payment, handover, or service completion”. Identify ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems, vendor, tenant, payment, and service histories, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use CloudWatch, AWS EKS, ECR, AWS to provision target environments from versioned modules and activate policy, identity, connectivity, logging, security, budget, and recovery foundations. Project scope for this action: Designed EKS, registry, database, object storage, search, identity, observability, and deployment foundations. Keep business-calendar cutover with representative project validation active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Plan/apply and deployment records, Environment inventory and ownership, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires document and master-data reconciliation to support the intended result: reduced release coupling through incremental service extraction, without allowing cost, schedule, document, or approval status is lost or duplicated.
Required evidence
  • Plan/apply and deployment records
  • Environment inventory and ownership
Applicable tools
CloudWatchAWS EKSECRAWS
Exit gate

Resources match reviewed code, naming, tags, isolation, policy, budget, identity, and observability requirements.

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Validate policy and security guardrailsOwner: Cloud security and platform governance
Purpose

Test preventive and detective policy, network exposure, encryption, images, patch level, logging, backup, vulnerability, identity, and compliance rules.

Project application

The practical purpose of validate policy and security guardrails is to create the governed destination before moving business workload. In the construction and property services context, the work follows the journey from “approve payment, handover, or service completion” through ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems. The protected business boundary is vendor, tenant, payment, and service histories. Existing project evidence establishes the delivery context: Containerized services and applied strangler routing with backward-compatible API and schema changes. Apply business-calendar cutover with representative project validation to address the risk that cost, schedule, document, or approval status is lost or duplicated; judge the result using workflow, approval, and work-order completion.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputApprove payment, handover, or service completion with scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges
  2. 02Validate policy and security guardrailsProvision target environments from versioned modules and activate policy, identity, connectivity, logging, security, budget, and recovery foundations
  3. 03Control pointMaster-data and document-link reconciliation
  4. 04EvidencePolicy compliance report, Security test and exception register using ECR, Aurora, OpenSearch
  5. 05Exit decisionCritical violations block workload onboarding and every exception has owner, justification, expiry, and compensating control. Confirm schedule and cost data freshness.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “report portfolio performance and retain evidence”. Identify mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals, project, property, lease, and asset master data, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use ECR, Aurora, OpenSearch, AWS to provision target environments from versioned modules and activate policy, identity, connectivity, logging, security, budget, and recovery foundations. Project scope for this action: Containerized services and applied strangler routing with backward-compatible API and schema changes. Keep master-data and document-link reconciliation active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Policy compliance report, Security test and exception register, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog to support the intended result: maintained listing and payment consistency during coexistence, without allowing a release blocks field work, tenant service, or payment approval.
Required evidence
  • Policy compliance report
  • Security test and exception register
Applicable tools
ECRAuroraOpenSearchAWS
Exit gate

Critical violations block workload onboarding and every exception has owner, justification, expiry, and compensating control.

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Prepare dependency endpoints and operationsOwner: Network, integration, identity, vendor, and operations teams
Purpose

Create target endpoints, firewall rules, DNS entries, certificates, service accounts, API contracts, monitoring integrations, tickets, and vendor changes.

Project application

This step turns prepare dependency endpoints and operations into a controlled decision: create the governed destination before moving business workload. The implementation follows “report portfolio performance and retain evidence” across mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals. The protected business boundary is project, property, lease, and asset master data. The implementation anchor comes from the project’s recorded scope: Rehearsed listing, application, payment, document, and notification reconciliation. Apply master-data and document-link reconciliation to address the risk that a release blocks field work, tenant service, or payment approval; judge the result using schedule and cost data freshness.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputReport portfolio performance and retain evidence with ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems
  2. 02Prepare dependency endpoints and operationsProvision target environments from versioned modules and activate policy, identity, connectivity, logging, security, budget, and recovery foundations
  3. 03Control pointOffline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection
  4. 04EvidenceDependency readiness matrix, Connectivity and support tests using Terraform, Argo CD, CloudWatch
  5. 05Exit decisionEvery dependency required by the pilot is reachable, authenticated, monitored, owned, and safe to activate. Confirm document and master-data reconciliation.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “create the property, project, lease, or work package”. Identify identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services, schedule, cost, contract, and change records, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use Terraform, Argo CD, CloudWatch, AWS to provision target environments from versioned modules and activate policy, identity, connectivity, logging, security, budget, and recovery foundations. Project scope for this action: Rehearsed listing, application, payment, document, and notification reconciliation. Keep offline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Dependency readiness matrix, Connectivity and support tests, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires workflow, approval, and work-order completion to support the intended result: established a scalable container operating model, without allowing migration breaks historical document links or contractual audit trails.
Required evidence
  • Dependency readiness matrix
  • Connectivity and support tests
Applicable tools
TerraformArgo CDCloudWatchAWS
Exit gate

Every dependency required by the pilot is reachable, authenticated, monitored, owned, and safe to activate.

Prepare workload and data

7 steps

Remediate compatibility, design data movement, group waves, and create detailed cutover and rollback procedures.

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Remediate workload compatibilityOwner: Application engineering and platform specialists
Purpose

Update unsupported operating systems, runtimes, libraries, paths, drivers, configuration, identity, storage, network assumptions, and platform integrations.

Project application

Remediate workload compatibility is where the team must make the application, data, dependencies, and operators cutover-ready. The team traces the change through “create the property, project, lease, or work package”, including its reliance on identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services and its effect on schedule, cost, contract, and change records. The relevant project scope is concrete: Shifted traffic gradually and retired monolith capabilities only after stable operation. Apply offline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection to address the risk that migration breaks historical document links or contractual audit trails; judge the result using document and master-data reconciliation.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputCreate the property, project, lease, or work package with mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals
  2. 02Remediate workload compatibilityRemediate compatibility, build transferable artifacts, configure replication, group safe waves, and write executable cutover and rollback runbooks
  3. 03Control pointRole-based approval and immutable change history
  4. 04EvidenceCompatibility backlog and fixes, Build and startup test results using Aurora, OpenSearch, S3
  5. 05Exit decisionThe workload starts in the target using supported components without relying on hidden source-environment behavior. Confirm field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “capture budget, schedule, document, and approval state”. Identify scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges, drawings, documents, approvals, and handover evidence, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use Aurora, OpenSearch, S3, AWS to remediate compatibility, build transferable artifacts, configure replication, group safe waves, and write executable cutover and rollback runbooks. Project scope for this action: Shifted traffic gradually and retired monolith capabilities only after stable operation. Keep role-based approval and immutable change history active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Compatibility backlog and fixes, Build and startup test results, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires schedule and cost data freshness to support the intended result: reduced release coupling through incremental service extraction, without allowing site and office records diverge during intermittent connectivity.
Required evidence
  • Compatibility backlog and fixes
  • Build and startup test results
Applicable tools
AuroraOpenSearchS3AWS
Exit gate

The workload starts in the target using supported components without relying on hidden source-environment behavior.

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Containerize or replatform where requiredOwner: Application, container, and platform engineering
Purpose

Create secure images or managed-platform definitions with non-root execution, external configuration, health probes, resource limits, immutable versions, and logging.

Project application

At this point, containerize or replatform where required must make the application, data, dependencies, and operators cutover-ready. In the construction and property services context, the work follows the journey from “capture budget, schedule, document, and approval state” through scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges. The protected business boundary is drawings, documents, approvals, and handover evidence. Existing project evidence establishes the delivery context: Mapped monolith modules, database coupling, sessions, files, search, payments, and partner integrations. Apply role-based approval and immutable change history to address the risk that site and office records diverge during intermittent connectivity; judge the result using field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputCapture budget, schedule, document, and approval state with identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services
  2. 02Containerize or replatform where requiredRemediate compatibility, build transferable artifacts, configure replication, group safe waves, and write executable cutover and rollback runbooks
  3. 03Control pointBusiness-calendar cutover with representative project validation
  4. 04EvidenceSigned artifact or platform package, Security and runtime validation using OpenSearch, S3, Terraform
  5. 05Exit decisionThe migrated package is reproducible, scanned, versioned, deployable, observable, and rollback-capable. Confirm workflow, approval, and work-order completion.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “coordinate site, contractor, tenant, or vendor activity”. Identify ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems, vendor, tenant, payment, and service histories, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use OpenSearch, S3, Terraform, AWS to remediate compatibility, build transferable artifacts, configure replication, group safe waves, and write executable cutover and rollback runbooks. Project scope for this action: Mapped monolith modules, database coupling, sessions, files, search, payments, and partner integrations. Keep business-calendar cutover with representative project validation active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Signed artifact or platform package, Security and runtime validation, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires document and master-data reconciliation to support the intended result: maintained listing and payment consistency during coexistence, without allowing cost, schedule, document, or approval status is lost or duplicated.
Required evidence
  • Signed artifact or platform package
  • Security and runtime validation
Applicable tools
OpenSearchS3TerraformAWS
Exit gate

The migrated package is reproducible, scanned, versioned, deployable, observable, and rollback-capable.

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Design the data migration methodOwner: Data architect, DBA, storage, and business data owner
Purpose

Select offline copy, backup/restore, replication, change data capture, export/import, transfer appliance, or staged synchronization by data set.

Project application

The practical purpose of design the data migration method is to make the application, data, dependencies, and operators cutover-ready. The implementation follows “coordinate site, contractor, tenant, or vendor activity” across ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems. The protected business boundary is vendor, tenant, payment, and service histories. The implementation anchor comes from the project’s recorded scope: Designed EKS, registry, database, object storage, search, identity, observability, and deployment foundations. Apply business-calendar cutover with representative project validation to address the risk that cost, schedule, document, or approval status is lost or duplicated; judge the result using workflow, approval, and work-order completion.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputCoordinate site, contractor, tenant, or vendor activity with scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges
  2. 02Design the data migration methodRemediate compatibility, build transferable artifacts, configure replication, group safe waves, and write executable cutover and rollback runbooks
  3. 03Control pointMaster-data and document-link reconciliation
  4. 04EvidenceData migration strategy, Dataset method and ownership matrix using Aurora, OpenSearch, S3
  5. 05Exit decisionEach data set has a compatible method, encryption, expected duration, bandwidth, validation, retry, freeze, and rollback rule. Confirm schedule and cost data freshness.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “record progress, cost, issue, and change”. Identify mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals, project, property, lease, and asset master data, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use Aurora, OpenSearch, S3, AWS to remediate compatibility, build transferable artifacts, configure replication, group safe waves, and write executable cutover and rollback runbooks. Project scope for this action: Designed EKS, registry, database, object storage, search, identity, observability, and deployment foundations. Keep master-data and document-link reconciliation active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Data migration strategy, Dataset method and ownership matrix, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog to support the intended result: established a scalable container operating model, without allowing a release blocks field work, tenant service, or payment approval.
Required evidence
  • Data migration strategy
  • Dataset method and ownership matrix
Applicable tools
AuroraOpenSearchS3AWS
Exit gate

Each data set has a compatible method, encryption, expected duration, bandwidth, validation, retry, freeze, and rollback rule.

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Validate schema and platform compatibilityOwner: Database engineering and application owners
Purpose

Compare engines, versions, schema, collation, data types, indexes, procedures, extensions, identity sequences, permissions, and client drivers.

Project application

This step turns validate schema and platform compatibility into a controlled decision: make the application, data, dependencies, and operators cutover-ready. The team traces the change through “record progress, cost, issue, and change”, including its reliance on mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals and its effect on project, property, lease, and asset master data. The relevant project scope is concrete: Containerized services and applied strangler routing with backward-compatible API and schema changes. Apply master-data and document-link reconciliation to address the risk that a release blocks field work, tenant service, or payment approval; judge the result using schedule and cost data freshness.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputRecord progress, cost, issue, and change with ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems
  2. 02Validate schema and platform compatibilityRemediate compatibility, build transferable artifacts, configure replication, group safe waves, and write executable cutover and rollback runbooks
  3. 03Control pointOffline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection
  4. 04EvidenceCompatibility assessment, Schema remediation and test report using S3, Terraform, Argo CD
  5. 05Exit decisionAll unsupported behavior is remediated or accepted with an executable workaround and regression coverage. Confirm document and master-data reconciliation.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “approve payment, handover, or service completion”. Identify identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services, schedule, cost, contract, and change records, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use S3, Terraform, Argo CD, AWS to remediate compatibility, build transferable artifacts, configure replication, group safe waves, and write executable cutover and rollback runbooks. Project scope for this action: Containerized services and applied strangler routing with backward-compatible API and schema changes. Keep offline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Compatibility assessment, Schema remediation and test report, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires workflow, approval, and work-order completion to support the intended result: reduced release coupling through incremental service extraction, without allowing migration breaks historical document links or contractual audit trails.
Required evidence
  • Compatibility assessment
  • Schema remediation and test report
Applicable tools
S3TerraformArgo CDAWS
Exit gate

All unsupported behavior is remediated or accepted with an executable workaround and regression coverage.

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Configure replication or staged transferOwner: Database, storage, and migration engineering
Purpose

Build encrypted connectivity, seed initial data, start incremental synchronization, monitor lag, protect credentials, and define resynchronization procedures.

Project application

Configure replication or staged transfer is where the team must make the application, data, dependencies, and operators cutover-ready. In the construction and property services context, the work follows the journey from “approve payment, handover, or service completion” through identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services. The protected business boundary is schedule, cost, contract, and change records. Existing project evidence establishes the delivery context: Rehearsed listing, application, payment, document, and notification reconciliation. Apply offline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection to address the risk that migration breaks historical document links or contractual audit trails; judge the result using document and master-data reconciliation.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputApprove payment, handover, or service completion with mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals
  2. 02Configure replication or staged transferRemediate compatibility, build transferable artifacts, configure replication, group safe waves, and write executable cutover and rollback runbooks
  3. 03Control pointRole-based approval and immutable change history
  4. 04EvidenceReplication or transfer configuration, Lag, throughput, and integrity dashboard using Aurora, OpenSearch, S3
  5. 05Exit decisionThe transfer remains stable at representative change rates and can reach the cutover RPO within the window. Confirm field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “report portfolio performance and retain evidence”. Identify scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges, drawings, documents, approvals, and handover evidence, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use Aurora, OpenSearch, S3, AWS to remediate compatibility, build transferable artifacts, configure replication, group safe waves, and write executable cutover and rollback runbooks. Project scope for this action: Rehearsed listing, application, payment, document, and notification reconciliation. Keep role-based approval and immutable change history active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Replication or transfer configuration, Lag, throughput, and integrity dashboard, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires schedule and cost data freshness to support the intended result: maintained listing and payment consistency during coexistence, without allowing site and office records diverge during intermittent connectivity.
Required evidence
  • Replication or transfer configuration
  • Lag, throughput, and integrity dashboard
Applicable tools
AuroraOpenSearchS3AWS
Exit gate

The transfer remains stable at representative change rates and can reach the cutover RPO within the window.

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Group workloads into migration wavesOwner: Migration program, architecture, and business owners
Purpose

Sequence workloads by dependency, criticality, complexity, data gravity, team capacity, blackout periods, rollback coupling, and learning value.

Project application

At this point, group workloads into migration waves must make the application, data, dependencies, and operators cutover-ready. The implementation follows “report portfolio performance and retain evidence” across scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges. The protected business boundary is drawings, documents, approvals, and handover evidence. The implementation anchor comes from the project’s recorded scope: Shifted traffic gradually and retired monolith capabilities only after stable operation. Apply role-based approval and immutable change history to address the risk that site and office records diverge during intermittent connectivity; judge the result using field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputReport portfolio performance and retain evidence with identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services
  2. 02Group workloads into migration wavesRemediate compatibility, build transferable artifacts, configure replication, group safe waves, and write executable cutover and rollback runbooks
  3. 03Control pointBusiness-calendar cutover with representative project validation
  4. 04EvidenceApproved wave plan, Wave dependency and resource schedule using Argo CD, CloudWatch, AWS EKS
  5. 05Exit decisionNo wave splits an inseparable dependency or exceeds available technical, business, vendor, validation, or rollback capacity. Confirm workflow, approval, and work-order completion.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “create the property, project, lease, or work package”. Identify ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems, vendor, tenant, payment, and service histories, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use Argo CD, CloudWatch, AWS EKS, AWS to remediate compatibility, build transferable artifacts, configure replication, group safe waves, and write executable cutover and rollback runbooks. Project scope for this action: Shifted traffic gradually and retired monolith capabilities only after stable operation. Keep business-calendar cutover with representative project validation active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Approved wave plan, Wave dependency and resource schedule, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires document and master-data reconciliation to support the intended result: established a scalable container operating model, without allowing cost, schedule, document, or approval status is lost or duplicated.
Required evidence
  • Approved wave plan
  • Wave dependency and resource schedule
Applicable tools
Argo CDCloudWatchAWS EKSAWS
Exit gate

No wave splits an inseparable dependency or exceeds available technical, business, vendor, validation, or rollback capacity.

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Create cutover and rollback runbooksOwner: Migration lead with all resolver teams
Purpose

Write minute-by-minute prerequisites, owners, communications, freeze, backup, sync, shutdown, start order, routing, validation, decision, rollback, and escalation actions.

Project application

The practical purpose of create cutover and rollback runbooks is to make the application, data, dependencies, and operators cutover-ready. The team traces the change through “create the property, project, lease, or work package”, including its reliance on ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems and its effect on vendor, tenant, payment, and service histories. The relevant project scope is concrete: Mapped monolith modules, database coupling, sessions, files, search, payments, and partner integrations. Apply business-calendar cutover with representative project validation to address the risk that cost, schedule, document, or approval status is lost or duplicated; judge the result using workflow, approval, and work-order completion.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputCreate the property, project, lease, or work package with scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges
  2. 02Create cutover and rollback runbooksRemediate compatibility, build transferable artifacts, configure replication, group safe waves, and write executable cutover and rollback runbooks
  3. 03Control pointMaster-data and document-link reconciliation
  4. 04EvidenceVersion-controlled cutover runbook, Rollback runbook and call tree using Argo CD, CloudWatch, AWS EKS
  5. 05Exit decisionEvery action has owner, duration, command or procedure, evidence, dependency, stop condition, and safe reversal. Confirm schedule and cost data freshness.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “capture budget, schedule, document, and approval state”. Identify mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals, project, property, lease, and asset master data, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use Argo CD, CloudWatch, AWS EKS, AWS to remediate compatibility, build transferable artifacts, configure replication, group safe waves, and write executable cutover and rollback runbooks. Project scope for this action: Mapped monolith modules, database coupling, sessions, files, search, payments, and partner integrations. Keep master-data and document-link reconciliation active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Version-controlled cutover runbook, Rollback runbook and call tree, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog to support the intended result: reduced release coupling through incremental service extraction, without allowing a release blocks field work, tenant service, or payment approval.
Required evidence
  • Version-controlled cutover runbook
  • Rollback runbook and call tree
Applicable tools
Argo CDCloudWatchAWS EKSAWS
Exit gate

Every action has owner, duration, command or procedure, evidence, dependency, stop condition, and safe reversal.

Pilot and rehearse

7 steps

Use a representative pilot and timed rehearsal to validate tooling, performance, security, integration, recovery, evidence, and decision thresholds.

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Select a representative pilotOwner: Migration architect and business owner
Purpose

Choose a bounded workload that exercises meaningful network, identity, data, monitoring, deployment, integration, and support patterns without unacceptable blast radius.

Project application

This step turns select a representative pilot into a controlled decision: learn under representative conditions before production exposure. In the construction and property services context, the work follows the journey from “capture budget, schedule, document, and approval state” through mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals. The protected business boundary is project, property, lease, and asset master data. Existing project evidence establishes the delivery context: Designed EKS, registry, database, object storage, search, identity, observability, and deployment foundations. Apply master-data and document-link reconciliation to address the risk that a release blocks field work, tenant service, or payment approval; judge the result using schedule and cost data freshness.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputCapture budget, schedule, document, and approval state with ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems
  2. 02Select a representative pilotMigrate a meaningful pilot, validate technical and business paths, test performance, security and recovery, fix defects, and time the final sequence
  3. 03Control pointOffline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection
  4. 04EvidencePilot rationale and scope, Pilot success and rollback criteria using CloudWatch, AWS EKS, ECR
  5. 05Exit decisionThe pilot produces reusable learning for later waves and has sufficient business availability for validation. Confirm document and master-data reconciliation.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “coordinate site, contractor, tenant, or vendor activity”. Identify identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services, schedule, cost, contract, and change records, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use CloudWatch, AWS EKS, ECR, AWS to migrate a meaningful pilot, validate technical and business paths, test performance, security and recovery, fix defects, and time the final sequence. Project scope for this action: Designed EKS, registry, database, object storage, search, identity, observability, and deployment foundations. Keep offline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Pilot rationale and scope, Pilot success and rollback criteria, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires workflow, approval, and work-order completion to support the intended result: maintained listing and payment consistency during coexistence, without allowing migration breaks historical document links or contractual audit trails.
Required evidence
  • Pilot rationale and scope
  • Pilot success and rollback criteria
Applicable tools
CloudWatchAWS EKSECRAWS
Exit gate

The pilot produces reusable learning for later waves and has sufficient business availability for validation.

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Execute the pilot migrationOwner: Migration execution team
Purpose

Run discovery updates, infrastructure deployment, workload release, data transfer, dependency changes, traffic movement, validation, rollback readiness, and communications.

Project application

Execute the pilot migration is where the team must learn under representative conditions before production exposure. The implementation follows “coordinate site, contractor, tenant, or vendor activity” across identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services. The protected business boundary is schedule, cost, contract, and change records. The implementation anchor comes from the project’s recorded scope: Containerized services and applied strangler routing with backward-compatible API and schema changes. Apply offline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection to address the risk that migration breaks historical document links or contractual audit trails; judge the result using document and master-data reconciliation.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputCoordinate site, contractor, tenant, or vendor activity with mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals
  2. 02Execute the pilot migrationMigrate a meaningful pilot, validate technical and business paths, test performance, security and recovery, fix defects, and time the final sequence
  3. 03Control pointRole-based approval and immutable change history
  4. 04EvidencePilot execution timeline, Step evidence and defects using Terraform, Argo CD, CloudWatch
  5. 05Exit decisionThe pilot completes using the runbook and every deviation becomes an owned template, automation, or design improvement. Confirm field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “record progress, cost, issue, and change”. Identify scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges, drawings, documents, approvals, and handover evidence, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use Terraform, Argo CD, CloudWatch, AWS to migrate a meaningful pilot, validate technical and business paths, test performance, security and recovery, fix defects, and time the final sequence. Project scope for this action: Containerized services and applied strangler routing with backward-compatible API and schema changes. Keep role-based approval and immutable change history active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Pilot execution timeline, Step evidence and defects, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires schedule and cost data freshness to support the intended result: established a scalable container operating model, without allowing site and office records diverge during intermittent connectivity.
Required evidence
  • Pilot execution timeline
  • Step evidence and defects
Applicable tools
TerraformArgo CDCloudWatchAWS
Exit gate

The pilot completes using the runbook and every deviation becomes an owned template, automation, or design improvement.

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Validate technical operationOwner: Application, platform, data, network, and SRE teams
Purpose

Verify health, configuration, connectivity, identity, runtime, logs, scaling, backup, scheduled work, queues, replication, failover, and management access.

Project application

At this point, validate technical operation must learn under representative conditions before production exposure. The team traces the change through “record progress, cost, issue, and change”, including its reliance on scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges and its effect on drawings, documents, approvals, and handover evidence. The relevant project scope is concrete: Rehearsed listing, application, payment, document, and notification reconciliation. Apply role-based approval and immutable change history to address the risk that site and office records diverge during intermittent connectivity; judge the result using field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputRecord progress, cost, issue, and change with identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services
  2. 02Validate technical operationMigrate a meaningful pilot, validate technical and business paths, test performance, security and recovery, fix defects, and time the final sequence
  3. 03Control pointBusiness-calendar cutover with representative project validation
  4. 04EvidenceTechnical validation report, Platform and dependency sign-offs using Argo CD, CloudWatch, AWS EKS
  5. 05Exit decisionThe target has no unresolved critical functional, operability, security, or recovery defect. Confirm workflow, approval, and work-order completion.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “approve payment, handover, or service completion”. Identify ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems, vendor, tenant, payment, and service histories, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use Argo CD, CloudWatch, AWS EKS, AWS to migrate a meaningful pilot, validate technical and business paths, test performance, security and recovery, fix defects, and time the final sequence. Project scope for this action: Rehearsed listing, application, payment, document, and notification reconciliation. Keep business-calendar cutover with representative project validation active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Technical validation report, Platform and dependency sign-offs, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires document and master-data reconciliation to support the intended result: reduced release coupling through incremental service extraction, without allowing cost, schedule, document, or approval status is lost or duplicated.
Required evidence
  • Technical validation report
  • Platform and dependency sign-offs
Applicable tools
Argo CDCloudWatchAWS EKSAWS
Exit gate

The target has no unresolved critical functional, operability, security, or recovery defect.

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Validate integrations and business journeysOwner: QA, integration, and business process owners
Purpose

Run end-to-end journeys across upstream and downstream services, asynchronous paths, data reconciliation, reports, notifications, and operational procedures.

Project application

The practical purpose of validate integrations and business journeys is to learn under representative conditions before production exposure. In the construction and property services context, the work follows the journey from “approve payment, handover, or service completion” through ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems. The protected business boundary is vendor, tenant, payment, and service histories. Existing project evidence establishes the delivery context: Shifted traffic gradually and retired monolith capabilities only after stable operation. Apply business-calendar cutover with representative project validation to address the risk that cost, schedule, document, or approval status is lost or duplicated; judge the result using workflow, approval, and work-order completion.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputApprove payment, handover, or service completion with scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges
  2. 02Validate integrations and business journeysMigrate a meaningful pilot, validate technical and business paths, test performance, security and recovery, fix defects, and time the final sequence
  3. 03Control pointMaster-data and document-link reconciliation
  4. 04EvidenceIntegration test pack, Business validation and reconciliation using Terraform, Argo CD, CloudWatch
  5. 05Exit decisionCritical journeys produce correct business and data outcomes across every target dependency. Confirm schedule and cost data freshness.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “report portfolio performance and retain evidence”. Identify mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals, project, property, lease, and asset master data, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use Terraform, Argo CD, CloudWatch, AWS to migrate a meaningful pilot, validate technical and business paths, test performance, security and recovery, fix defects, and time the final sequence. Project scope for this action: Shifted traffic gradually and retired monolith capabilities only after stable operation. Keep master-data and document-link reconciliation active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Integration test pack, Business validation and reconciliation, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog to support the intended result: maintained listing and payment consistency during coexistence, without allowing a release blocks field work, tenant service, or payment approval.
Required evidence
  • Integration test pack
  • Business validation and reconciliation
Applicable tools
TerraformArgo CDCloudWatchAWS
Exit gate

Critical journeys produce correct business and data outcomes across every target dependency.

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Run performance, security, and recovery testsOwner: Performance, security, continuity, and engineering teams
Purpose

Test representative and peak load, scaling, failover, restore, vulnerability, identity, segmentation, encryption, resilience, and operational response.

Project application

This step turns run performance, security, and recovery tests into a controlled decision: learn under representative conditions before production exposure. The implementation follows “report portfolio performance and retain evidence” across mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals. The protected business boundary is project, property, lease, and asset master data. The implementation anchor comes from the project’s recorded scope: Mapped monolith modules, database coupling, sessions, files, search, payments, and partner integrations. Apply master-data and document-link reconciliation to address the risk that a release blocks field work, tenant service, or payment approval; judge the result using schedule and cost data freshness.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputReport portfolio performance and retain evidence with ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems
  2. 02Run performance, security, and recovery testsMigrate a meaningful pilot, validate technical and business paths, test performance, security and recovery, fix defects, and time the final sequence
  3. 03Control pointOffline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection
  4. 04EvidencePerformance and resilience report, Security and recovery evidence using CloudWatch, AWS EKS, ECR
  5. 05Exit decisionMeasured target behavior meets the approved baseline, service objectives, RPO/RTO, and security gates. Confirm document and master-data reconciliation.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “create the property, project, lease, or work package”. Identify identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services, schedule, cost, contract, and change records, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use CloudWatch, AWS EKS, ECR, AWS to migrate a meaningful pilot, validate technical and business paths, test performance, security and recovery, fix defects, and time the final sequence. Project scope for this action: Mapped monolith modules, database coupling, sessions, files, search, payments, and partner integrations. Keep offline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Performance and resilience report, Security and recovery evidence, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires workflow, approval, and work-order completion to support the intended result: established a scalable container operating model, without allowing migration breaks historical document links or contractual audit trails.
Required evidence
  • Performance and resilience report
  • Security and recovery evidence
Applicable tools
CloudWatchAWS EKSECRAWS
Exit gate

Measured target behavior meets the approved baseline, service objectives, RPO/RTO, and security gates.

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Remediate pilot defectsOwner: Workload, platform, migration, and vendor teams
Purpose

Prioritize defects by cutover risk, correct code, infrastructure, data, process, monitoring, or documentation, and rerun affected tests.

Project application

Remediate pilot defects is where the team must learn under representative conditions before production exposure. The team traces the change through “create the property, project, lease, or work package”, including its reliance on identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services and its effect on schedule, cost, contract, and change records. The relevant project scope is concrete: Designed EKS, registry, database, object storage, search, identity, observability, and deployment foundations. Apply offline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection to address the risk that migration breaks historical document links or contractual audit trails; judge the result using document and master-data reconciliation.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputCreate the property, project, lease, or work package with mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals
  2. 02Remediate pilot defectsMigrate a meaningful pilot, validate technical and business paths, test performance, security and recovery, fix defects, and time the final sequence
  3. 03Control pointRole-based approval and immutable change history
  4. 04EvidenceDefect register and fixes, Regression and closure results using ECR, Aurora, OpenSearch
  5. 05Exit decisionNo open defect can cause failed cutover, data inconsistency, security breach, unsupported operation, or missed recovery target. Confirm field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “capture budget, schedule, document, and approval state”. Identify scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges, drawings, documents, approvals, and handover evidence, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use ECR, Aurora, OpenSearch, AWS to migrate a meaningful pilot, validate technical and business paths, test performance, security and recovery, fix defects, and time the final sequence. Project scope for this action: Designed EKS, registry, database, object storage, search, identity, observability, and deployment foundations. Keep role-based approval and immutable change history active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Defect register and fixes, Regression and closure results, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires schedule and cost data freshness to support the intended result: reduced release coupling through incremental service extraction, without allowing site and office records diverge during intermittent connectivity.
Required evidence
  • Defect register and fixes
  • Regression and closure results
Applicable tools
ECRAuroraOpenSearchAWS
Exit gate

No open defect can cause failed cutover, data inconsistency, security breach, unsupported operation, or missed recovery target.

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Rehearse the production cutoverOwner: Cutover manager and all named operators
Purpose

Run the production sequence with realistic data volume, roles, tools, communication, checkpoints, durations, rollback, and evidence capture.

Project application

At this point, rehearse the production cutover must learn under representative conditions before production exposure. In the construction and property services context, the work follows the journey from “capture budget, schedule, document, and approval state” through scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges. The protected business boundary is drawings, documents, approvals, and handover evidence. Existing project evidence establishes the delivery context: Containerized services and applied strangler routing with backward-compatible API and schema changes. Apply role-based approval and immutable change history to address the risk that site and office records diverge during intermittent connectivity; judge the result using field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputCapture budget, schedule, document, and approval state with identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services
  2. 02Rehearse the production cutoverMigrate a meaningful pilot, validate technical and business paths, test performance, security and recovery, fix defects, and time the final sequence
  3. 03Control pointBusiness-calendar cutover with representative project validation
  4. 04EvidenceTimed rehearsal report, Updated critical path and runbooks using ECR, Aurora, OpenSearch
  5. 05Exit decisionExpected cutover and rollback fit the approved window with contingency, and each operator has demonstrated the assigned action. Confirm workflow, approval, and work-order completion.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “coordinate site, contractor, tenant, or vendor activity”. Identify ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems, vendor, tenant, payment, and service histories, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use ECR, Aurora, OpenSearch, AWS to migrate a meaningful pilot, validate technical and business paths, test performance, security and recovery, fix defects, and time the final sequence. Project scope for this action: Containerized services and applied strangler routing with backward-compatible API and schema changes. Keep business-calendar cutover with representative project validation active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Timed rehearsal report, Updated critical path and runbooks, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires document and master-data reconciliation to support the intended result: maintained listing and payment consistency during coexistence, without allowing cost, schedule, document, or approval status is lost or duplicated.
Required evidence
  • Timed rehearsal report
  • Updated critical path and runbooks
Applicable tools
ECRAuroraOpenSearchAWS
Exit gate

Expected cutover and rollback fit the approved window with contingency, and each operator has demonstrated the assigned action.

Execute the cutover

7 steps

Authorize the wave, freeze change, synchronize data, start dependencies in order, move traffic, reconcile outcomes, and make an evidence-based go/no-go decision.

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Authorize the migration changeOwner: Change authority, business, security, operations, and migration leadership
Purpose

Review readiness, test evidence, risk, staffing, dependency status, backups, communication, validation, rollback, and blackout constraints.

Project application

The practical purpose of authorize the migration change is to move service authority using explicit go, hold, and rollback criteria. The implementation follows “coordinate site, contractor, tenant, or vendor activity” across ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems. The protected business boundary is vendor, tenant, payment, and service histories. The implementation anchor comes from the project’s recorded scope: Rehearsed listing, application, payment, document, and notification reconciliation. Apply business-calendar cutover with representative project validation to address the risk that cost, schedule, document, or approval status is lost or duplicated; judge the result using workflow, approval, and work-order completion.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputCoordinate site, contractor, tenant, or vendor activity with scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges
  2. 02Authorize the migration changeAuthorize the wave, freeze change, protect recovery points, synchronize data, start dependencies in order, shift traffic, and reconcile outcomes
  3. 03Control pointMaster-data and document-link reconciliation
  4. 04EvidenceApproved change and readiness checklist, Recorded go/no-go criteria using AWS EKS, ECR, Aurora
  5. 05Exit decisionAuthorization covers the exact wave, artifact, data, window, operators, target, and recovery plan. Confirm schedule and cost data freshness.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “record progress, cost, issue, and change”. Identify mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals, project, property, lease, and asset master data, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use AWS EKS, ECR, Aurora, AWS to authorize the wave, freeze change, protect recovery points, synchronize data, start dependencies in order, shift traffic, and reconcile outcomes. Project scope for this action: Rehearsed listing, application, payment, document, and notification reconciliation. Keep master-data and document-link reconciliation active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Approved change and readiness checklist, Recorded go/no-go criteria, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog to support the intended result: established a scalable container operating model, without allowing a release blocks field work, tenant service, or payment approval.
Required evidence
  • Approved change and readiness checklist
  • Recorded go/no-go criteria
Applicable tools
AWS EKSECRAuroraAWS
Exit gate

Authorization covers the exact wave, artifact, data, window, operators, target, and recovery plan.

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Freeze source change and capture recovery pointsOwner: Application, data, release, and business owners
Purpose

Stop deployments and business writes as planned, record source versions and configuration, take validated backups or snapshots, and confirm rollback reachability.

Project application

This step turns freeze source change and capture recovery points into a controlled decision: move service authority using explicit go, hold, and rollback criteria. The team traces the change through “record progress, cost, issue, and change”, including its reliance on mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals and its effect on project, property, lease, and asset master data. The relevant project scope is concrete: Shifted traffic gradually and retired monolith capabilities only after stable operation. Apply master-data and document-link reconciliation to address the risk that a release blocks field work, tenant service, or payment approval; judge the result using schedule and cost data freshness.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputRecord progress, cost, issue, and change with ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems
  2. 02Freeze source change and capture recovery pointsAuthorize the wave, freeze change, protect recovery points, synchronize data, start dependencies in order, shift traffic, and reconcile outcomes
  3. 03Control pointOffline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection
  4. 04EvidenceFreeze confirmation, Protected recovery points and source baseline using Aurora, OpenSearch, S3
  5. 05Exit decisionNo untracked change can enter the source and every required rollback asset is current, protected, and restorable. Confirm document and master-data reconciliation.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “approve payment, handover, or service completion”. Identify identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services, schedule, cost, contract, and change records, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use Aurora, OpenSearch, S3, AWS to authorize the wave, freeze change, protect recovery points, synchronize data, start dependencies in order, shift traffic, and reconcile outcomes. Project scope for this action: Shifted traffic gradually and retired monolith capabilities only after stable operation. Keep offline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Freeze confirmation, Protected recovery points and source baseline, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires workflow, approval, and work-order completion to support the intended result: reduced release coupling through incremental service extraction, without allowing migration breaks historical document links or contractual audit trails.
Required evidence
  • Freeze confirmation
  • Protected recovery points and source baseline
Applicable tools
AuroraOpenSearchS3AWS
Exit gate

No untracked change can enter the source and every required rollback asset is current, protected, and restorable.

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Complete final synchronizationOwner: Data and migration engineering
Purpose

Drain or pause writers, apply the final delta, monitor lag, reconcile counts and checksums, capture sequence state, and preserve transfer logs.

Project application

Complete final synchronization is where the team must move service authority using explicit go, hold, and rollback criteria. In the construction and property services context, the work follows the journey from “approve payment, handover, or service completion” through identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services. The protected business boundary is schedule, cost, contract, and change records. Existing project evidence establishes the delivery context: Mapped monolith modules, database coupling, sessions, files, search, payments, and partner integrations. Apply offline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection to address the risk that migration breaks historical document links or contractual audit trails; judge the result using document and master-data reconciliation.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputApprove payment, handover, or service completion with mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals
  2. 02Complete final synchronizationAuthorize the wave, freeze change, protect recovery points, synchronize data, start dependencies in order, shift traffic, and reconcile outcomes
  3. 03Control pointRole-based approval and immutable change history
  4. 04EvidenceFinal sync and lag report, Pre-cutover reconciliation using AWS EKS, ECR, Aurora
  5. 05Exit decisionData is within approved RPO, consistent at the agreed boundary, and safe to activate in the destination. Confirm field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “report portfolio performance and retain evidence”. Identify scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges, drawings, documents, approvals, and handover evidence, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use AWS EKS, ECR, Aurora, AWS to authorize the wave, freeze change, protect recovery points, synchronize data, start dependencies in order, shift traffic, and reconcile outcomes. Project scope for this action: Mapped monolith modules, database coupling, sessions, files, search, payments, and partner integrations. Keep role-based approval and immutable change history active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Final sync and lag report, Pre-cutover reconciliation, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires schedule and cost data freshness to support the intended result: maintained listing and payment consistency during coexistence, without allowing site and office records diverge during intermittent connectivity.
Required evidence
  • Final sync and lag report
  • Pre-cutover reconciliation
Applicable tools
AWS EKSECRAuroraAWS
Exit gate

Data is within approved RPO, consistent at the agreed boundary, and safe to activate in the destination.

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Start target services in dependency orderOwner: Platform, data, application, and integration teams
Purpose

Activate network and identity, data, messaging, shared services, applications, scheduled processes, monitoring, and user entry points in the rehearsed order.

Project application

At this point, start target services in dependency order must move service authority using explicit go, hold, and rollback criteria. The implementation follows “report portfolio performance and retain evidence” across scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges. The protected business boundary is drawings, documents, approvals, and handover evidence. The implementation anchor comes from the project’s recorded scope: Designed EKS, registry, database, object storage, search, identity, observability, and deployment foundations. Apply role-based approval and immutable change history to address the risk that site and office records diverge during intermittent connectivity; judge the result using field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputReport portfolio performance and retain evidence with identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services
  2. 02Start target services in dependency orderAuthorize the wave, freeze change, protect recovery points, synchronize data, start dependencies in order, shift traffic, and reconcile outcomes
  3. 03Control pointBusiness-calendar cutover with representative project validation
  4. 04EvidenceTarget activation log, Component health and version inventory using OpenSearch, S3, Terraform
  5. 05Exit decisionEvery lower dependency is healthy and validated before dependent traffic or processing begins. Confirm workflow, approval, and work-order completion.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “create the property, project, lease, or work package”. Identify ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems, vendor, tenant, payment, and service histories, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use OpenSearch, S3, Terraform, AWS to authorize the wave, freeze change, protect recovery points, synchronize data, start dependencies in order, shift traffic, and reconcile outcomes. Project scope for this action: Designed EKS, registry, database, object storage, search, identity, observability, and deployment foundations. Keep business-calendar cutover with representative project validation active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Target activation log, Component health and version inventory, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires document and master-data reconciliation to support the intended result: established a scalable container operating model, without allowing cost, schedule, document, or approval status is lost or duplicated.
Required evidence
  • Target activation log
  • Component health and version inventory
Applicable tools
OpenSearchS3TerraformAWS
Exit gate

Every lower dependency is healthy and validated before dependent traffic or processing begins.

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Move routing, DNS, and user trafficOwner: Network, platform, release, and business operations
Purpose

Change load balancer, gateway, proxy, DNS, endpoint, queue, schedule, or client routing using controlled cohorts and monitored checkpoints.

Project application

The practical purpose of move routing, DNS, and user traffic is to move service authority using explicit go, hold, and rollback criteria. The team traces the change through “create the property, project, lease, or work package”, including its reliance on ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems and its effect on vendor, tenant, payment, and service histories. The relevant project scope is concrete: Containerized services and applied strangler routing with backward-compatible API and schema changes. Apply business-calendar cutover with representative project validation to address the risk that cost, schedule, document, or approval status is lost or duplicated; judge the result using workflow, approval, and work-order completion.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputCreate the property, project, lease, or work package with scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges
  2. 02Move routing, DNS, and user trafficAuthorize the wave, freeze change, protect recovery points, synchronize data, start dependencies in order, shift traffic, and reconcile outcomes
  3. 03Control pointMaster-data and document-link reconciliation
  4. 04EvidenceTraffic change record, Propagation and telemetry snapshots using Terraform, Argo CD, CloudWatch
  5. 05Exit decisionExpected users and integrations reach only the intended target and error, latency, and business metrics remain within thresholds. Confirm schedule and cost data freshness.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “capture budget, schedule, document, and approval state”. Identify mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals, project, property, lease, and asset master data, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use Terraform, Argo CD, CloudWatch, AWS to authorize the wave, freeze change, protect recovery points, synchronize data, start dependencies in order, shift traffic, and reconcile outcomes. Project scope for this action: Containerized services and applied strangler routing with backward-compatible API and schema changes. Keep master-data and document-link reconciliation active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Traffic change record, Propagation and telemetry snapshots, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog to support the intended result: reduced release coupling through incremental service extraction, without allowing a release blocks field work, tenant service, or payment approval.
Required evidence
  • Traffic change record
  • Propagation and telemetry snapshots
Applicable tools
TerraformArgo CDCloudWatchAWS
Exit gate

Expected users and integrations reach only the intended target and error, latency, and business metrics remain within thresholds.

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Reconcile data and business outcomesOwner: Business validators, data owners, QA, and finance where applicable
Purpose

Compare records, totals, balances, files, messages, reports, timestamps, user journeys, and exceptions between the migration boundary and target.

Project application

This step turns reconcile data and business outcomes into a controlled decision: move service authority using explicit go, hold, and rollback criteria. In the construction and property services context, the work follows the journey from “capture budget, schedule, document, and approval state” through mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals. The protected business boundary is project, property, lease, and asset master data. Existing project evidence establishes the delivery context: Rehearsed listing, application, payment, document, and notification reconciliation. Apply master-data and document-link reconciliation to address the risk that a release blocks field work, tenant service, or payment approval; judge the result using schedule and cost data freshness.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputCapture budget, schedule, document, and approval state with ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems
  2. 02Reconcile data and business outcomesAuthorize the wave, freeze change, protect recovery points, synchronize data, start dependencies in order, shift traffic, and reconcile outcomes
  3. 03Control pointOffline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection
  4. 04EvidenceSigned reconciliation report, Exception and remediation register using Argo CD, CloudWatch, AWS EKS
  5. 05Exit decisionCritical data and transactions are complete, accurate, unique, timely, and accepted by the accountable business owner. Confirm document and master-data reconciliation.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “coordinate site, contractor, tenant, or vendor activity”. Identify identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services, schedule, cost, contract, and change records, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use Argo CD, CloudWatch, AWS EKS, AWS to authorize the wave, freeze change, protect recovery points, synchronize data, start dependencies in order, shift traffic, and reconcile outcomes. Project scope for this action: Rehearsed listing, application, payment, document, and notification reconciliation. Keep offline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Signed reconciliation report, Exception and remediation register, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires workflow, approval, and work-order completion to support the intended result: maintained listing and payment consistency during coexistence, without allowing migration breaks historical document links or contractual audit trails.
Required evidence
  • Signed reconciliation report
  • Exception and remediation register
Applicable tools
Argo CDCloudWatchAWS EKSAWS
Exit gate

Critical data and transactions are complete, accurate, unique, timely, and accepted by the accountable business owner.

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Make the go, hold, or rollback decisionOwner: Business owner and cutover commander
Purpose

Compare current technical, data, security, performance, business, support, time, and recovery evidence with documented decision thresholds.

Project application

Make the go, hold, or rollback decision is where the team must move service authority using explicit go, hold, and rollback criteria. The implementation follows “coordinate site, contractor, tenant, or vendor activity” across identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services. The protected business boundary is schedule, cost, contract, and change records. The implementation anchor comes from the project’s recorded scope: Shifted traffic gradually and retired monolith capabilities only after stable operation. Apply offline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection to address the risk that migration breaks historical document links or contractual audit trails; judge the result using document and master-data reconciliation.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputCoordinate site, contractor, tenant, or vendor activity with mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals
  2. 02Make the go, hold, or rollback decisionAuthorize the wave, freeze change, protect recovery points, synchronize data, start dependencies in order, shift traffic, and reconcile outcomes
  3. 03Control pointRole-based approval and immutable change history
  4. 04EvidenceTimestamped decision record, Gate evidence and dissent or exception using ECR, Aurora, OpenSearch
  5. 05Exit decisionThe selected decision is authorized while the rollback path and operational window remain viable. Confirm field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “record progress, cost, issue, and change”. Identify scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges, drawings, documents, approvals, and handover evidence, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use ECR, Aurora, OpenSearch, AWS to authorize the wave, freeze change, protect recovery points, synchronize data, start dependencies in order, shift traffic, and reconcile outcomes. Project scope for this action: Shifted traffic gradually and retired monolith capabilities only after stable operation. Keep role-based approval and immutable change history active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Timestamped decision record, Gate evidence and dissent or exception, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires schedule and cost data freshness to support the intended result: established a scalable container operating model, without allowing site and office records diverge during intermittent connectivity.
Required evidence
  • Timestamped decision record
  • Gate evidence and dissent or exception
Applicable tools
ECRAuroraOpenSearchAWS
Exit gate

The selected decision is authorized while the rollback path and operational window remain viable.

Stabilize and hand over

3 steps

Observe the migrated workload intensely, resolve defects, transfer accountable operations, and confirm service targets under real usage.

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Run migration hypercareOwner: Migration, application, platform, data, network, and support teams
Purpose

Provide enhanced staffing and monitor technical and business signals, tickets, integration delays, data drift, cost, capacity, and user feedback after cutover.

Project application

At this point, run migration hypercare must prove the destination under real usage and transfer accountable ownership. The team traces the change through “record progress, cost, issue, and change”, including its reliance on scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges and its effect on drawings, documents, approvals, and handover evidence. The relevant project scope is concrete: Mapped monolith modules, database coupling, sessions, files, search, payments, and partner integrations. Apply role-based approval and immutable change history to address the risk that site and office records diverge during intermittent connectivity; judge the result using field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputRecord progress, cost, issue, and change with identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services
  2. 02Run migration hypercareRun enhanced monitoring, control defects, reconcile operations, confirm SLOs, complete knowledge transfer, and remove temporary access
  3. 03Control pointBusiness-calendar cutover with representative project validation
  4. 04EvidenceHypercare dashboard and rota, Issue, trend, and decision log using ECR, Aurora, OpenSearch
  5. 05Exit decisionThe service sustains normal load for the agreed period and critical issues have clear owners and recovery paths. Confirm workflow, approval, and work-order completion.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “approve payment, handover, or service completion”. Identify ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems, vendor, tenant, payment, and service histories, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use ECR, Aurora, OpenSearch, AWS to run enhanced monitoring, control defects, reconcile operations, confirm SLOs, complete knowledge transfer, and remove temporary access. Project scope for this action: Mapped monolith modules, database coupling, sessions, files, search, payments, and partner integrations. Keep business-calendar cutover with representative project validation active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Hypercare dashboard and rota, Issue, trend, and decision log, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires document and master-data reconciliation to support the intended result: reduced release coupling through incremental service extraction, without allowing cost, schedule, document, or approval status is lost or duplicated.
Required evidence
  • Hypercare dashboard and rota
  • Issue, trend, and decision log
Applicable tools
ECRAuroraOpenSearchAWS
Exit gate

The service sustains normal load for the agreed period and critical issues have clear owners and recovery paths.

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Resolve post-cutover incidents and defectsOwner: Incident commander and responsible engineering team
Purpose

Triage by recent migration change, protect evidence, mitigate safely, reconcile affected data, communicate impact, and update migration patterns.

Project application

The practical purpose of resolve post-cutover incidents and defects is to prove the destination under real usage and transfer accountable ownership. In the construction and property services context, the work follows the journey from “approve payment, handover, or service completion” through ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems. The protected business boundary is vendor, tenant, payment, and service histories. Existing project evidence establishes the delivery context: Designed EKS, registry, database, object storage, search, identity, observability, and deployment foundations. Apply business-calendar cutover with representative project validation to address the risk that cost, schedule, document, or approval status is lost or duplicated; judge the result using workflow, approval, and work-order completion.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputApprove payment, handover, or service completion with scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges
  2. 02Resolve post-cutover incidents and defectsRun enhanced monitoring, control defects, reconcile operations, confirm SLOs, complete knowledge transfer, and remove temporary access
  3. 03Control pointMaster-data and document-link reconciliation
  4. 04EvidenceIncident and defect records, Corrective validation and learning using S3, Terraform, Argo CD
  5. 05Exit decisionUser impact and data risk are removed and the same defect is prevented in remaining waves. Confirm schedule and cost data freshness.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “report portfolio performance and retain evidence”. Identify mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals, project, property, lease, and asset master data, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use S3, Terraform, Argo CD, AWS to run enhanced monitoring, control defects, reconcile operations, confirm SLOs, complete knowledge transfer, and remove temporary access. Project scope for this action: Designed EKS, registry, database, object storage, search, identity, observability, and deployment foundations. Keep master-data and document-link reconciliation active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Incident and defect records, Corrective validation and learning, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog to support the intended result: maintained listing and payment consistency during coexistence, without allowing a release blocks field work, tenant service, or payment approval.
Required evidence
  • Incident and defect records
  • Corrective validation and learning
Applicable tools
S3TerraformArgo CDAWS
Exit gate

User impact and data risk are removed and the same defect is prevented in remaining waves.

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Transfer service ownership to operationsOwner: Migration lead, service owner, and support manager
Purpose

Handover architecture, inventory, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, access, vendors, backups, recovery, known errors, costs, SLAs, and escalation.

Project application

This step turns transfer service ownership to operations into a controlled decision: prove the destination under real usage and transfer accountable ownership. The implementation follows “report portfolio performance and retain evidence” across mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals. The protected business boundary is project, property, lease, and asset master data. The implementation anchor comes from the project’s recorded scope: Containerized services and applied strangler routing with backward-compatible API and schema changes. Apply master-data and document-link reconciliation to address the risk that a release blocks field work, tenant service, or payment approval; judge the result using schedule and cost data freshness.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputReport portfolio performance and retain evidence with ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems
  2. 02Transfer service ownership to operationsRun enhanced monitoring, control defects, reconcile operations, confirm SLOs, complete knowledge transfer, and remove temporary access
  3. 03Control pointOffline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection
  4. 04EvidenceOperational acceptance, Runbook, CMDB, access, and support updates using Aurora, OpenSearch, S3
  5. 05Exit decisionOn-call staff independently detect, diagnose, restore, escalate, and operate the target against service objectives. Confirm document and master-data reconciliation.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “create the property, project, lease, or work package”. Identify identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services, schedule, cost, contract, and change records, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use Aurora, OpenSearch, S3, AWS to run enhanced monitoring, control defects, reconcile operations, confirm SLOs, complete knowledge transfer, and remove temporary access. Project scope for this action: Containerized services and applied strangler routing with backward-compatible API and schema changes. Keep offline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Operational acceptance, Runbook, CMDB, access, and support updates, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires workflow, approval, and work-order completion to support the intended result: established a scalable container operating model, without allowing migration breaks historical document links or contractual audit trails.
Required evidence
  • Operational acceptance
  • Runbook, CMDB, access, and support updates
Applicable tools
AuroraOpenSearchS3AWS
Exit gate

On-call staff independently detect, diagnose, restore, escalate, and operate the target against service objectives.

Retire and optimize

3 steps

Decommission safely, remove obsolete access and cost, preserve required records, retest recovery, and measure the migration against its intended benefits.

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Approve source decommission readinessOwner: Business, data, security, application, finance, and platform owners
Purpose

Confirm retention, audit, reconciliation, rollback expiry, legal hold, dependency removal, contract, user, and operational requirements before retirement.

Project application

Approve source decommission readiness is where the team must remove legacy risk and realize the migration benefit. The team traces the change through “create the property, project, lease, or work package”, including its reliance on identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services and its effect on schedule, cost, contract, and change records. The relevant project scope is concrete: Rehearsed listing, application, payment, document, and notification reconciliation. Apply offline-aware synchronization and duplicate protection to address the risk that migration breaks historical document links or contractual audit trails; judge the result using document and master-data reconciliation.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputCreate the property, project, lease, or work package with mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals
  2. 02Approve source decommission readinessArchive required evidence, decommission source assets safely, remove obsolete connectivity and licenses, retest recovery, right-size, and measure outcomes
  3. 03Control pointRole-based approval and immutable change history
  4. 04EvidenceDecommission approval checklist, Dependency and retention sign-offs using CloudWatch, AWS EKS, ECR
  5. 05Exit decisionNo active user, integration, recovery need, record obligation, or unresolved migration defect requires the source. Confirm field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “capture budget, schedule, document, and approval state”. Identify scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges, drawings, documents, approvals, and handover evidence, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use CloudWatch, AWS EKS, ECR, AWS to archive required evidence, decommission source assets safely, remove obsolete connectivity and licenses, retest recovery, right-size, and measure outcomes. Project scope for this action: Rehearsed listing, application, payment, document, and notification reconciliation. Keep role-based approval and immutable change history active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Decommission approval checklist, Dependency and retention sign-offs, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires schedule and cost data freshness to support the intended result: reduced release coupling through incremental service extraction, without allowing site and office records diverge during intermittent connectivity.
Required evidence
  • Decommission approval checklist
  • Dependency and retention sign-offs
Applicable tools
CloudWatchAWS EKSECRAWS
Exit gate

No active user, integration, recovery need, record obligation, or unresolved migration defect requires the source.

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Archive, revoke, and decommission source assetsOwner: Source platform, data, identity, network, security, and asset teams
Purpose

Archive required records and configurations, revoke access and credentials, remove routing and monitoring, cancel licenses, wipe data safely, and dispose of assets.

Project application

At this point, archive, revoke, and decommission source assets must remove legacy risk and realize the migration benefit. In the construction and property services context, the work follows the journey from “capture budget, schedule, document, and approval state” through scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges. The protected business boundary is drawings, documents, approvals, and handover evidence. Existing project evidence establishes the delivery context: Shifted traffic gradually and retired monolith capabilities only after stable operation. Apply role-based approval and immutable change history to address the risk that site and office records diverge during intermittent connectivity; judge the result using field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputCapture budget, schedule, document, and approval state with identity, workflow, notification, and reporting services
  2. 02Archive, revoke, and decommission source assetsArchive required evidence, decommission source assets safely, remove obsolete connectivity and licenses, retest recovery, right-size, and measure outcomes
  3. 03Control pointBusiness-calendar cutover with representative project validation
  4. 04EvidenceDecommission execution record, Data disposal, access, and cost evidence using ECR, Aurora, OpenSearch
  5. 05Exit decisionSource services cannot receive production traffic, protected data is handled correctly, and obsolete cost and attack surface are removed. Confirm workflow, approval, and work-order completion.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “coordinate site, contractor, tenant, or vendor activity”. Identify ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems, vendor, tenant, payment, and service histories, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use ECR, Aurora, OpenSearch, AWS to archive required evidence, decommission source assets safely, remove obsolete connectivity and licenses, retest recovery, right-size, and measure outcomes. Project scope for this action: Shifted traffic gradually and retired monolith capabilities only after stable operation. Keep business-calendar cutover with representative project validation active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Decommission execution record, Data disposal, access, and cost evidence, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires document and master-data reconciliation to support the intended result: maintained listing and payment consistency during coexistence, without allowing cost, schedule, document, or approval status is lost or duplicated.
Required evidence
  • Decommission execution record
  • Data disposal, access, and cost evidence
Applicable tools
ECRAuroraOpenSearchAWS
Exit gate

Source services cannot receive production traffic, protected data is handled correctly, and obsolete cost and attack surface are removed.

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Optimize and close the migrationOwner: Service owner, FinOps, SRE, security, and program leadership
Purpose

Right-size the target, tune scaling and storage, close risks, retest backup and DR, compare cost and service outcomes, document lessons, and update future wave standards.

Project application

The practical purpose of optimize and close the migration is to remove legacy risk and realize the migration benefit. The implementation follows “coordinate site, contractor, tenant, or vendor activity” across ERP, finance, document, and procurement systems. The protected business boundary is vendor, tenant, payment, and service histories. The implementation anchor comes from the project’s recorded scope: Mapped monolith modules, database coupling, sessions, files, search, payments, and partner integrations. Apply business-calendar cutover with representative project validation to address the risk that cost, schedule, document, or approval status is lost or duplicated; judge the result using workflow, approval, and work-order completion.

Step execution flow
  1. 01Readiness inputCoordinate site, contractor, tenant, or vendor activity with scheduled integrations and partner file exchanges
  2. 02Optimize and close the migrationArchive required evidence, decommission source assets safely, remove obsolete connectivity and licenses, retest recovery, right-size, and measure outcomes
  3. 03Control pointMaster-data and document-link reconciliation
  4. 04EvidenceBenefits and optimization report, DR retest, closure, and improvement roadmap using Aurora, OpenSearch, S3
  5. 05Exit decisionThe migration outcome is measurable, supportable, secure, recoverable, cost-owned, and formally accepted. Confirm schedule and cost data freshness.
Detailed activities
  1. Apply this step to the source and destination path for “record progress, cost, issue, and change”. Identify mobile, field, contractor, and tenant portals, project, property, lease, and asset master data, owners, durations, prerequisites, stop conditions, and the last safe reversal point.
  2. Use Aurora, OpenSearch, S3, AWS to archive required evidence, decommission source assets safely, remove obsolete connectivity and licenses, retest recovery, right-size, and measure outcomes. Project scope for this action: Mapped monolith modules, database coupling, sessions, files, search, payments, and partner integrations. Keep master-data and document-link reconciliation active throughout transfer, validation, and decision-making.
  3. Capture Benefits and optimization report, DR retest, closure, and improvement roadmap, source and target versions, reconciliation results, elapsed time, decision owner, and rollback readiness. Acceptance requires field, tenant, and vendor exception backlog to support the intended result: established a scalable container operating model, without allowing a release blocks field work, tenant service, or payment approval.
Required evidence
  • Benefits and optimization report
  • DR retest, closure, and improvement roadmap
Applicable tools
AuroraOpenSearchS3AWS
Exit gate

The migration outcome is measurable, supportable, secure, recoverable, cost-owned, and formally accepted.