The Story Behind the Solution

Have you ever found yourself struggling with project scope creep and complexity while migrating or deploying Microsoft Intune for your organization? You’re not alone. Every project I was involved in felt like I was reinventing the wheel—creating project work items from scratch, adding new tasks during the project’s lifecycle, and dealing with countless unforeseen challenges.

I realized something that many Intune migration and implementation teams face: the processes were repetitive, but lacked consistency. And for each new project, I had to reinvent the wheel when it came to defining work items, task descriptions, and deployment steps. The truth is, after working on multiple Intune projects, the work was always strikingly similar—yet the project plans were never standardized.

So I decided to create the Intune Implementation Success Framework.

I thought: Why shouldn’t we make this process repeatable, standardized, and as easy as possible?

By leveraging my experience migrating and implementing Microsoft Intune, I began compiling a comprehensive project plan—a set of pre-defined work items, requirements, and tasks for any Intune migration or deployment project. This plan would allow any project team to follow a clear, structured path to success. Whether they were new to Intune or experienced, they would know exactly what needs to be done.

But I didn’t stop there. I knew I had to take it a step further to empower teams to move faster, with greater confidence, without the need for constant rework or missteps. That’s when I integrated OnePlan into the framework.

The result? The Intune Implementation Success Framework, designed to ensure every Intune migration or deployment is streamlined, repeatable, and ultimately successful.

Overview: Leveraging over 25 years of experience in enterprise IT and endpoint management, I offer specialized services for migrating to and implementing Microsoft Intune, with a strong emphasis on using DevOps for Project and Tasks management. This service is designed to ensure a smooth, secure, and optimized transition from Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM) to Microsoft Intune while maintaining traceability, accountability, and efficiency throughout the process.

By utilizing DevOps for SCRUM project management, I provide end-to-end solutions that leverages Azure DevOps to track progress, create documentation during each stage of migration or implementation, and ensure compliance with industry standards. This approach ensures a robust and scalable implementation plan that evolves with the organization’s growth.

Key Features of the Service:

1. End-to-End Migration Strategy:
   • Comprehensive roadmap to transition from MECM to Intune, leveraging co-management where applicable.
   • Detailed mapping of migration stages for seamless device enrollment, application deployment, and endpoint protection.
   • Prepopulated work items, features, requirements and tasks for DevOps, ensuring that the migration is well-managed and traceable.
2. DevOps Solution:
   • This is a robust solution for developing centralized documentation that tracks progress, captures changes, and outlines key design decisions throughout the implementation. By leveraging Project Management in DevOps, this solution acts as a crucial resource for monitoring the project’s lifecycle, ensuring consistency, and maintaining a clear record of decisions and milestones. Additionally, it enables the creation of real-time documentation on-the-fly, seamlessly capturing the details of the Intune implementation as it evolves.
   • Automation and alert notifications for work item tasks closures and status updates, coupled with Microsoft Teams integration for enhance collaboration, ensures timely peer notifications, accelerate execution, reduce human error and traceability.
   • Real-time traceability of all work items and tasks, providing full visibility into project progress. This capability not only ensures efficient task management but also facilitates seamless coordination, accountability, and future scalability to accommodate evolving project needs and growth.
3. Comprehensive Configuration & Security:
   • Configuration profiles, compliance policies, and security settings tailored to the organization’s needs.
   • Endpoint protection and device security measures are integrated into the overall migration plan.
   • Best practices for Windows Autopilot, application management, packaging, and mobile threat defense.
4. Guidance and Training: 
   • This solution offers MECM-focused teams with strategic guidance thru DevOps work-items, ensuring that they can effectively learn and apply Microsoft Intune concepts. It enables teams to build a strong foundation of knowledge of Intune to confidently execute deployment and management tasks.
   • With embedded step-by-step instructions written for each work-item, this service offers continuous guidance throughout the Intune implementation process. It ensures that MECM teams with limited Intune knowledge can execute tasks accurately without needing extensive prior Intune experience.
   • By offering technical guidance and knowledge transfer sessions, this service solution equips MECM teams with practical, hands-on experience in Intune deployment. This approach helps them enable Intune for their tenant while accelerating the learning curve.