Windows 7 user readiness for migration
Windows 7 user readiness
If you ask any of your project managers ‘what is the one thing blocking your Windows 7 migrations?’ the answer will, in most cases, be ‘user readiness’.
Your migration may involve tens – maybe hundreds – of readiness checks for every single user. That generates thousands upon thousands of tasks for you to manage before your deployment can successfully complete. Take an enterprise with 10,000 users, for example. If each user requires 100 tasks to be completed, you have one million tasks to manage. Daunting isn’t it? No wonder project managers sometimes struggle.
Juriba’s background is in large enterprises, where the number of tasks involved in migrating users at the big FTSE 250 and Fortune 500 global corporates can easily run into the tens of millions.
This challenge is what compelled us to develop Dashworks as an automated system to make user readiness easier to achieve, faster and with less risk.
Assessing user and asset readiness for Windows 7 migrations
The scenario is that your organisation is upgrading from Windows XP. You have hundreds or thousands of users, computers and applications to migrate onto a new desktop operating system.
Your program manager has established a number of workstreams to complete your Windows 7 migration tasks. You need real-time user and asset readiness at your fingertips to drive consistency across workstreams.
Your Windows 7 program and project managers need specific information. How is the application readiness looking? What tasks are blocking migrations? How is the rollout progressing against plan? What tasks need escalation?
These are just some of the questions asked by your Windows 7 project team every day, and if not understood fully can have a seriously detrimental effect on cost.
Dashworks system is purpose-designed to bring cost and efficiency benefits to your project team when assessing user and asset readiness for migration to Windows 7.
Windows 7 readiness management benefits with Dashworks
Total readiness visibility
Each of your workstreams want their deployment schedule to get ahead of the readiness tasks. With Dashworks every workstream can see their own migration readiness tasks in an instant.
Real-time dashboards, driven by the latest task updates in easy to follow readiness colours make the process of managing hundreds of thousands of tasks a breeze.
Intelligent migration from Windows XP
Your resources are a significant element of your Windows 7 project cost. You want them to be working efficiently, and on the highest impact items.
With Dashworks, intelligence is inbuilt. What is the required date for each in scope application based on the real-time schedule? How many users are impacted tonight if this application is not ready? Which computers have had a key task updated today? Your project, your process, Dashworks intelligence.
Dynamic control
Your Windows 7 rollout plan will be subject to significant change during the rollout period. If you are not in control of this change, your project will soon descend into chaos. The answer is to effectively manage that change.
Dashworks is synchronised with your live environment. It is controlled by your project managers. It guides you to investigate when things do not look right. Real-time, dynamic control.
