Office moves and new-site IT

How a move is planned

1. Both sites, looked at properly. What moves, what is replaced, what is retired and left off the van.
2. The circuit. This is often the long pole. The date belongs to the carrier. We plan a temporary path, and we do not promise their appointment.
3. Labelling, and a list of what each person needs on the first morning.
4. A cutover window you have agreed, with someone on your side who can make a decision that day.
5. A check on the first working morning, while a fault can still be fixed quietly.

The building changes the plan

In Exeter city centre, loading and access are booked. We do not arrive and assume a bay, or that a riser is ours to use. On a business park the constraint is more often the comms room and the live circuit than the front door. At a trading estate the office may be a mezzanine over a floor that has to keep working while the desks move. The plan names which of these it is.

A new site, rather than a move

There is no old office to fall back on. We are more cautious, not less. Temporary connectivity is designed before it is needed, and the list of what will wait is agreed, so the first week does not become an improvised version of the whole project.

Related

• Networks and Wi-Fi

  The new building needs a design, not a hope that the old wireless will stretch.

• Microsoft 365 and cloud

  Mail often moves more easily than the line-of-business system. We do not confuse the two.

• Exeter

  City-centre access and business-park comms rooms are both common Exeter constraints.

Questions

Can you promise the new office will be online on Monday?

We can plan the cutover and say what it depends on. A circuit date belongs to the carrier. If that date slips, the plan should already say what temporary connectivity looks like, and what will wait.

Do you work outside office hours?

When the cutover needs it, yes, by arrangement. The window is agreed. It is not assumed that evenings or weekends are free, and it is not assumed that they are required.