Hi Patrick,
I have done a lot of this for PTC, PTC customers (as a an independent)
as well as systems previous to Windchill such as Sherpa which is an old
PDM Vendor.
So here are my two cents.
First of all - it depends - on the type of migration, business
criticality, complexity of the data and cleanliness of the data (this
one always bites us).
1. Migration Resources
Customer
Lead/Champion
Data Cleanup Team
The size of the team is dependent on size, complexity and how
messy the data is
Data Validation Team
Test Migration environment - VM clone of production makes life
much easier
2. Migration Leadership
Champion
CM Representative
Engineering Representative
Manufacturing Representative
Other - depends on the data and business functions being
impacted
3. Time to Migration
This is very dependent on the data and the urgency to the business.
4. Data Selection
There seems to be two schools of thought - migrate it all, migrate the
minimum - only migrate the latest with known good data.
It really depends on the return on investment for moving a collection
of data - particularly if a chunk of data increases the complexity and
risk of the migration.
This is a pretty brief and generic answer to a potentially long and
complicated process, I would have to know more about what you are doing
to provide more specifics.
I am curious what the community has to say about this subject, but I
Hope this helps and gets the conversation started.
--Bob
