Hello Owen, Would I be accurate in re-phrasing each of these as.... On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
1. This will affect the entire organization, not just the IT department and will definitely impact all of apps, sysadmin, devops, operations, and networking teams within the IT department.
"The scope of the IPv6 endeavour is organisation-wide" so as to mitigate any internal disconnects that will result from other units perceiving this as an 'IT department's project?. I would specifically like to at some point later bring in the marketing and sales folks. They can't pitch it correctly if they don't understand it can they?
2. Training will be required for virtually all levels of the organization. End users won't need more than a ~2 hour introduction to what to look for during and after the upcoming changes. The IT department will need substantial training, covering a wide variety of topics (application changes (development, configuration, testing, management), systems administration changes, networking changes, etc.)
+1
3. We've actually been through this before. In some cases more than once. e.g.: Novell -> TCP/IP Windows Networking -> TCP/IP Appletalk -> TCP/IP NCP -> TCP/IP
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