Summary
Understanding your environment is very important before starting a new installation or upgrading a project to a new version of SharePoint. Again, make sure you know all the deprecated features, new features, boundaries and limits, best practices, and governance. All these areas need to be investigated as part of an assessment to figure out what areas need help in your current environment and what areas are changing.
Remember to document all areas of your environment if you haven't already. It is very important to understand your position. Along with documentation, governance is a very important part of the implementation process and if you do not have this in place currently, make sure you do it now. Please take my advice and implement governance in your SharePoint enterprise. Do not let this slip through the cracks and do not release your environment without it. I have seen too many environments fail or have daily fires because of governance not being implemented....
