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Building the Production Migration Matrix

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In this lesson, you will learn:

  • What a migration matrix is
  • What goes in each row
  • SNWR’s matrix

🔁 Quick look back: Last time: Managing Defects and Fixes. You learned how DEF-01 and DEF-02 were logged, fixed and retested.

1 The Problem: ‘Move It to Production’ Hides Many Different Tasks

Discovery isn’t one thing to move. Some items travel in an update set. Others must be rebuilt on snwr. Without a list:

  • Items get left behind.
  • Production-only items get forgotten.

🎯 The problem: ‘Move it to production’ hides many different tasks.

👉 The fix: Build a migration matrix: one row per item, with how it moves and how it’s checked.

Table of matrix rows.
Figure 1. Part of the Clear View migration matrix.

2 The columns

  • Item built on snwrdev.
  • How it moves: update set, rebuild, or manual entry.
  • What’s production-specific.
  • Owner.
  • How it’s validated.

3 Why it matters

⭐ Remember: The matrix is your go-live checklist for configuration. If it’s not in the matrix, it won’t be in production.

4 Project Clear View: How We Implemented It

📍 Situation: Go-live was two weeks away.

🧭 Decision: List every Discovery item in one matrix.

🛠️ Steps we took:

  1. Collected items from the design and the build notes.
  2. Marked how each moves.
  3. Added owners and checks.
  4. Reviewed it with Riya.

✅ What we verified:

  • Every item from snwrdev is in the matrix.
  • Riya agreed the method for each.

📁 Evidence: The Clear View migration matrix.

5 Quick recap

  • A migration matrix lists every item and how it moves.
  • Some items move in update sets, others are rebuilt.
  • Each row has an owner and a check.
  • If it’s not in the matrix, it won’t reach production.

6 Check yourself

Think of your answer first. Then tap to check.

1 Name three columns of the matrix. Show answer

Any three of: item, how it moves, production-specific notes, owner, check.

2 How do credentials reach production? Show answer

They’re entered on snwr, not moved.

3 Who reviewed the matrix? Show answer

Riya Sharma.

Nice work! Clear View’s move to production is mapped. 🎉
Next up: What Is Transported vs Recreated in Production

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