Select your early adopters, Early adopters, Decide on a go-live date and inform your employees – Google Apps Technical Transition Guide For Business, Education, and Government User Manual
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Select your early adopters
Level of Effort:
Low
Five to ten percent of your users transition to Google Apps before the rest of your
users do. This intermediate phase lets your IT team test your anticipated transition
process on a smaller, more flexible group of users. When selecting early adopters for
your transition, keep the following criteria in mind:
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Your early adopters should represent as many of your company’s roles and office
locations as possible.
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If any of your executives are early adopters, their administrative assistants and
direct reports should also be early adopters, if possible.
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If your company is sufficiently large (250+ employees), early adopters should be
willing to act as Google Guides during the Global Go Live phase. Google Guides
champion Google Apps to your company and help their coworkers get up to speed
quickly.
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Early adopters should feel comfortable coexisting on two communication
platforms. They should also be comfortable with the occasional hiccup that may
occur while you’re migrating data and configuring Google Apps.
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Ideally, early adopters have prior experience with Google products.
Give your employees plenty of opportunity to volunteer to be an early adopter. The
employees that are most excited about your upcoming transition typically make the
best early adopters.
Early Adopters
Decide on a go-live date and inform your employees
Level of Effort:
Low
Be sure to let your company know your Google Apps go-live date well ahead of time.
This is the date during the Global Go-Live phase when all of your users must switch
over to Google Apps. Users need plenty of advance notice of this date to help prevent
bottlenecks at your help desk when the day arrives.