Project Manager -Migration

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Job role: Project Manager

Location: Oslo, Norway

Role Responsibilities:

Job Summary

The Windows 10 to Windows 11 Migration Project Manager is responsible for planning and

delivering the end-to-end enterprise migration from Windows 10 to Windows 11 across the

organisation. The role coordinates technical teams, workplace support, application owners,

security, business stakeholders and vendors to ensure devices and applications are assessed,

remediated and migrated with minimal disruption to users and business operations.

The Project Manager owns migration planning, governance, risks and dependencies, pilot and

phased deployment coordination, user communications, migration tracking and post-migration

stabilisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end Windows 10 to Windows 11 migration programme , from discovery

and readiness through deployment and closure.

• Establish migration scope, plans, milestones, deployment waves, dependencies and

governance.

• Coordinate device readiness and hardware compatibility assessments , identifying

devices requiring upgrade, remediation or replacement.

• Drive application readiness and compatibility activities with application owners and

technical teams.

• Coordinate pilot deployments to validate the migration approach before broader rollout.
• Develop a structured migration wave strategy based on locations, business units,

user personas and business criticality.

• Coordinate endpoint management, engineering, security, application, network,

Service Desk and onsite support teams.

• Track migration progress, exceptions, failed migrations and remediation activities.
• Maintain project RAID logs , including risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies.
• Coordinate user communications covering migration schedules, preparation requirements

and expected user impact.

• Ensure appropriate Service Desk and onsite support readiness for migration waves and

post-migration incidents.

• Establish escalation and command-centre arrangements for major deployment waves

where required.

• Monitor migration KPIs and provide regular executive-level reporting on progress, risks,

blockers and overall readiness.

• Coordinate resolution of technical and business blockers affecting migration.
• Manage vendor and third-party dependencies where applicable.
• Drive post-migration hypercare, issue resolution and stabilisation .
• Ensure migration evidence, lessons learned and project closure activities are completed.