IT organizations are constantly faced with the challenge to produce high-quality solutions with a lower total cost of ownership. With the growing recognition that open source software provides quality, stable solutions, migrations of existing enterprise applications to products such as JBoss Enterprise Application Platform have become increasingly popular. Planning for such a migration is just as important as the implementation itself, so this document details the planning steps that should be taken when preparing for a migration to JBoss and the common implementation and training processes that should be followed.