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CQ / AEM Upgrade Learnings

Recently I worked on one of the major enterprise project in Adobe for upgrading AEM from 5.6.1 to 6.2. It took me and my team almost 10 months to upgrade this enterprise system, due to the complexity of the project.

After working on multiple upgrade projects on AEM now, I feel that even though Adobe documentation does provide lots of help, but there is still a huge difference in plan, timelines (may vary from 4 weeks to 10 months), and execution for each project (completely depends on the current architecture and topologies). I am trying to consolidate my experience and learnings on these projects in my blog. Hope it will be helpful for some of you planning for AEM upgrade



I will cover each phase separately as below
  1. Kickoff, Planning & estimation
  2. Analysis/assessment/discovery workshop
  3. Actual upgradation 
  4. Post upgrade Activities
  5. Performance tuning activities
  6. Go live & Cutover
  7. Maintenance activities



Comments

  1. AnonymousFebruary 23, 2017 at 10:57 PM

    Thanks, its quite helpful.

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  2. Vijay YadavMarch 10, 2017 at 7:34 AM

    Hey Vinit, thanks for your effort above. I am going through a similar upgrade project and we are at step 3 mentioned above, and already finding quite a bit of surprises. Wondering what turnaround are you looking for completing your thoughts on other stages sketched above? I understand schedules are busy usually.
    Great start man. kudos.

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    1. VinitMarch 10, 2017 at 10:50 AM

      Thanks for your kind words, Vijay. Since you need it, I will try to finish this by next week.

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