Use the runway.
The landing-zone schedule does not have to be idle time. Cloud Waypoint staggers and overlaps the work needed to understand, secure, authorize, migrate, and operate the mission environment.
Illustrative sequence · timing adjusts to estate size, access, telemetry, boundaries, and client availability.
Six weeks is a workstream—not the product.
The Foundations workstream can establish the declared target and authorization starting point in approximately six weeks. Dependency mapping typically continues longer. Their value compounds when the two streams converge into one evidence-backed migration, security, and operating design.
- 01
Mobilize & collect
Confirm objectives, stakeholders, environments, available documentation, inventories, and telemetry.
- 02
Establish the foundation
Define the GSS concept, boundary, shared services, target patterns, authorization inputs, and operating assumptions.
- 03
Observe the estate
Discover application communications, shared infrastructure, external services, data paths, and hidden coupling.
- 04
Converge the evidence
Compare the attested view with observed behavior; resolve discrepancies and design migration communities and security boundaries.
- 05
Prepare to launch
Sequence waves, shape future-state data flows, prepare application ATO inputs, and establish implementation handoffs.
- 06
Transition to operations
Carry decisions, risks, owners, and evidence into GSS operations and continuous monitoring.
IL5 and IL6 should be treated as related—but distinct—operating environments.
An additional boundary may extend the readiness sequence. Cloud Waypoint keeps shared decisions aligned while preserving the architecture, evidence, and operational differences each environment requires.