Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
An exit plan is not a migration These two things get conflated constantly, and the conflation is why so few teams have either. A migration is a project. It has a scope, a budget, an owner and a date, and the date is one you chose because the new thing is better, or cheaper, or the old thing is being wound down on a timetable you had months to absorb. You can staff it, sequence it and cut it short if the quarter goes badly. An exit plan is not a project. It is a maintained artefact, and its only job is to shorten a migration that somebody else scheduled for you. It is closer in spirit to a backup restore procedure than to a roadmap item: something you keep current, test on a cadence, and hope never to need in anger. The distinction matters because the two are optimised for completely…
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