When building Notes Migrator for SharePoint version 5.0, one of our main goals was to move beyond technical features (pre-migration analysis and content migration capabilities) and innovate in the area of helping customers and system integrators manage the overall migration project.  We frankly had to stretch a bit here as this was a little outside our traditional comfort zone. 

I think we made good start in this area.  Version 5.0 has many specific features to help manage the process:

• Analyze what you want to migrate (usage, data complexity, design complexity, deviations from templates)
• Automatically classify and consolidate applications using extensible rules-based engine
• Triage applications (set dispositions, business owners, effort estimates)
• Assign migration tasks and priorities using extensible rules-based engine
• Assign migration targets (SharePoint sites and lists) and preview entire migration plan
• Automate creation of migration jobs
• Monitor progress of migration steps and view detailed logs
• Open data format and export to PDF, Excel, comma delimited etc. for external use
• Reporting was weak in 5.0, but we are catching up in a big way in 5.1 (in beta) and 5.2

I also know that we have more work to do in this area.  We still don't have a Gantt chart.  You can't really call it a project management tool unless you have a Gantt chart! 

We have a lot of ideas of where we want to go here, but we also need your feedback.  I invite the customers and partners who read this blog to send me their comments, criticisms and creative inspirations about how they would want a tool from Quest to help them manage their migration projects.