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Lessons Learned

The factory model behind mass migrations, and the lessons it taught.

The migration factory
  1. Governance
  2. Solution enablementreference architectures
  3. Migration streamsparallel five-person teams
  4. Core automationlanding zone, CI/CD
  5. Post-migrationhyper-care, handover
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The factory model behind mass migrations

FPT Software's factory: find the patterns, group the applications, run each group the same way. NGT sizes it per programme.

  1. 01GovernancePortfolio and programme management, change and release, risk and benefit, upskilling, cloud cost.Portfolio boardChange & releaseRisk & benefitCloud cost
  2. 02Solution enablementAn architecture review board, solution design and a reference architecture per migration pattern.Architecture review boardReference architecturesKnowledge management
  3. 03Migration streamsParallel five-person teams, each with a client captain, on the same runbook.RehostReplatformRefactor
  4. 04Core automationInfrastructure as code, the landing zone, artifact repository, guardrails, secrets and CI/CD.TerraformCloudFormationArtifact repositorySecretsCI/CD
  5. 05VerificationFunctional, performance, data and integration tests, and a readiness check before production.FunctionalPerformanceData & integrationReadiness
  6. 06Post-migrationHyper-care, handover to operations, and decommissioning of the old infrastructure.Hyper-careHandoverDecommissioning
Operation & control: monitoring, health checks, key metrics, security findings, incidents
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Lessons learned from mass migrations

What FPT Software's programmes learned the hard way, and what NGT now does from day one.

What went wrong What NGT does now
Application ownersOnly IT involved; gaps found at user acceptanceOwners review results from the first wave
The assessmentA one-off report that goes staleA living document, checked every wave by the review board
Business knowledgeLost when screens and processes changeKnowledge transfer planned as real work
OwnershipNobody clearly owns an applicationThree owners: business process, application, operations
CountriesSilos repeat the same work in each countryDedicated squads and a shared knowledge network
ToolsA tool chosen before the patternsShared services, hub-and-spoke and patterns first
SourcesNGT Service Offering v2.0 (Mar 2025)NGT Service Offering v3.2 (Jul 2026)NGT DevOps–AI Service Offering (Oct 2026)NGT Azure Service Offering v1.0 (Dec 2024)NGT Google Cloud Service Offering v0.1NGT Cloud Operation Service Offering v0.2 (Jan 2025)FPT Software AWS Cloud Journey Service Offering V3FPT Software Cloud Transformation Capabilities (2024)FleziLift method and runbook (Oct 2026)