Migration Roles and Responsibilities

Migration Roles and Responsibilities
Help your migration staff—and other TechRepublic
members—understand their roles when migrating from
NT to 2003
Given the size of most migration projects, one of the first questions that you’ll have to answer from your
team will be “Which part of this is my responsibility?” Giving everyone on your team a clear picture of
what’s expected of them from the beginning is one way to focus team members on a particular task.
Last year, we published a template to help your team members understand their roles and
responsibilities on projects. We’ve taken that template, which was originally sent to us by TechRepublic
member John Remirez, and modified it for use with migrations from Windows NT to Windows Server
2003.
Using the download, each team member is assigned a task. A letter is assigned to each task that
indicates the team member’s level of responsibility. Here’s a breakdown of each role:
• A: Primary ownership: Creation
• B: Secondary ownership: Administering
• C: Initiating
• D: Planning
• E: Implementing
• F: Controlling
• G: Monitoring
• H: Closing
• I: Approving
• J: Reporting
• K: Assigning
For example, if a person is assigned a task and wants to determine his or her responsibilities, he or she
will read across the chart and find the letters: E, F, H. Referring to the chart legend, the artifact owner is
responsible for E = implementing the task, F = controlling the task, and H = closing the task.
(Note: You can substitute what we’ve provided with your own team member titles or other tasks in your
project that are not included here.)
Your role

We’ve divided the major tasks included in the migration into seven tabs:
1. Preparation
2. Active Directory
3. WINS and DHCP
4. System Policy to Group Policy
5. File and print servers
6. RAS
7. IIS
When you download the template—an Excel spreadsheet—you’ll notice that the responsibilities listed
for each major task have been left blank. This is where you come in. Because relatively few TechRepublic
members—by our estimations—have yet performed NT to 2003 migrations, we want your insight on the
responsibilities that would be included at each stage of the migration that we’ve listed. If you send us a
completed spreadsheet, and we use your list of tasks, we’ll send you $100. You can add tabs to the
spreadsheet to reflect other components of the migration.
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