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FIGURE 18-4:
An Office 365 implementation includes three phases: plan, prepare, and migrate.
The best implementation processes follow an iterative cycle in that you continu- ally plan, prepare, and migrate. You need to start somewhere, however, and you always start with a plan. When you get your plan in order, you then move onto preparing to migrate. As you’re preparing, you realize some additional things that you didn’t include in your plan. As a result, you continually update your plan. Per- haps a better representation of the process is shown in Figure 18-5, even though this might not sit well with organizations that have extensive gating requirements for every project undertaken.
FIGURE 18-5:
The Office 365 implementation phases in an iterative diagram.
228 PART6 PreparingtoMove
Planning phase
The planning phase of an Office 365 implementation greatly depends on many factors, including whether you’re using one of the business plans or enterprise plans. Regardless of which plan you’re using, you want to get a handle on the resources and roles that you will need for the implementation as well as such tasks as:
