WHAT IS INSIDE What you actually have Including the applications one department bought directly, and the cloud services nobody in IT provisioned
The dependency sweep Finding the integration nobody remembered until cutover weekend
Licensing traps What stops working, costs more, or becomes non-compliant once it moves
Data volume and downtime maths A unit-safe formula, a reference table and a worked example, because dividing terabytes by megabits is how this goes wrong by a factor of eight
Recovery objectives, and who approves them The four numbers that one question about acceptable downtime hides
Identity, hosting and data residency Usually the hardest part, plus where the data lives and where the support desk lives as two separate questions
Rollback planning and decommissioning What has to be true to reverse the decision, and the step that quietly never happens
The go / no-go and the decision record Answered the week before, then written down for whoever has to sign
