Data migration governance: what actually prevents go-live risk
A lightweight governance model that surfaces risk early and turns cutover into a repeatable process.
The real failure mode
Most migrations don’t fail because of tooling — they fail because risk is discovered too late and ownership is unclear at cutover.
A practical governance model
- One source of truth for scope, mapping decisions, and exceptions.
- Evidence checkpoints for reconciliation, controls, and operational readiness.
- Cutover rehearsals with explicit rollback criteria (not “we’ll see on the day”).
The payoff
Teams ship with confidence because the organization can answer two questions at any time:
- What could go wrong next?
- Who owns the fix?