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A migration doesn’t fail because of tools. It fails because of missing decisions.

There are 3 design decisions that determine whether the business stays operational during a SharePoint migration - decisions that surface only after the first user confusion ticket lands.

These are not ex*****on details.

They are design decisions that have to be made before the first batch moves.

After years of leading IT delivery, I finally understood what separates reactive leaders from trusted ones.

It’s not just experience. It’s not just seniority. It’s the discipline to spot delivery risk before it becomes visible.

Discipline one: watch your decision velocity. When decisions stall, that’s not noise. It’s an early sign that delivery risk is forming.

Discipline two: inspect real artifacts. Backlogs. Test results. Release notes. Evidence, not opinion.

Discipline three: act early. Patterns repeat before projects drift. The leaders who spot them first are the ones who protect the outcome.

The leaders who surface problems early are not being alarmist. They are being accountable.

Before your next delivery review, look at where decisions are stalling, what artifacts prove progress, and which issues are repeating.
Those three checks usually reveal delivery risk before the status report does.