Strategic Projects
Some priorities need a defined beginning and end.
Most of Keelson’s work is continuous. But some initiatives are too big for a monthly cadence — they need their own plan, timeline and definition of done. Those become separately scoped projects, led by Keelson and delivered with your IT people.
04 · Project Execution
When a priority needs an owner from start to finish.
Some work is too big for a monthly check-in. If it needs its own plan, timeline and definition of done, it becomes a project — run by Keelson, delivered with your IT people.
From the operating recordDecision — eight inherited Microsoft 365 tenants, one per acquisition · promoted to an owned project
Microsoft 365 tenant consolidation
FromEight inherited tenants, one per acquisition
ToOne governed platform tenant
OwnershipKeelson directs · IT delivery performs
- Discovery & tenant inventoryComplete
- Identity mapping & naming standardComplete
- Pilot migration — first entityComplete
- Wave migrations — entities 2–7In progress
- Legacy tenant decommissionScheduled
- Completion review against criteriaScheduled
Completion criteriaDone means: every mailbox, file store and identity on the platform tenant; legacy tenants closed; support handed to steady-state delivery.
Other projects of this shape: folding in a new acquisition · evaluating or replacing IT providers · security fixes · hardware refresh · AI phone answering · putting AI to work in the CRM · a company-wide AI policy with staff training.
Technology should not get harder every time you buy a company.
If the portfolio has grown faster than the technology operating model behind it, that is the conversation Keelson was built for.
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