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Th end of the assignment is near When Philander Van Hien and I co-founded Migration Factory BV, we embarked on a journey filled with uncertainty about what…

02/12/2020

Delivering a data migration during covid lockdown

Working in the new world and for a new world, that’s what we are doing in Data Migration Projects.

What a very different year it has been. We I'm standing today I have never thought of where we currently would have been delivering for our customers.

Over 10 years I'm working as the data migration consultant for sensitive data. Back in the past migration weekends were excited and crowded with people. Lockdowns because of covid changed a lot of how we work together. Before covid during a migration(weekend) crowded office-spaces stacked with energy drinks and other fast food. Recently we delivered a migration, if i compare it to before covid there was still energy drinks, snacks … but only for a very limited core team on the same location and all the other people involved working remote. We talked to them on the phone or saw them in the meetings via teams. Managing a 48h runbook is not very practical from home. Because it is not an easy job not disturbing the sleep pattern from spouse and children. Luckily, we were able to rent a covid proof office space Holiday Inn, with great nice desks, fast and stable internet connection, the bowls with cookies were almost empty in a blink of an eye. An awesome new way of working.