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  1. > They start with a small proof of concept, migrating perhaps a single application and learning in the process. > Then they do the work of looking across other applications on the old platform, to see which ones are similar to the one that is now in the cloud. @skamille/1353389684903309316
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      > They work with those users to get them migrated and running, all the while gaining comfort with this new environment and uncovering the interesting gotchas.
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        > They write down what they’re learning, so that each new step in the migration builds on the last, and others can be pulled in without a huge knowledge transfer.
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          > The team focuses on the hard parts of the moment, whether they are figuring out data mirroring, or fixing a bug in a popular open source project, and they are free from the anxious overhead of wondering what is happening tomorrow.
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            > The users are also free from the stress of wondering when the work they need will be delivered, because the team has communicated plans that account for this process of iteration, learning, and gradual migration.