Move away from legacy Adobe infrastructure without a big-bang rewrite
Inventory first. Manage in place. Add validation and CI. Move selected forms when the business case is clear — and not before.
Inventory before estimate
Most migration programmes are scoped before anyone knows what is in the estate, which is why they overrun. An assessment gives you the asset count, the dependency graph and the feature distribution first.
Dual runtime for as long as you need it
AEM Forms and LiveCycle keep running while YakForms manages the estate around them. Conversion happens wave by wave, and each wave proves its output matches before anything is cut over.
You may decide not to migrate at all
Plenty of estates get the governance, validation and release model and keep the runtime they have. That is a legitimate outcome, and the assessment will tell you if it is yours.
Start with an estate assessment
Point YakForms at a copy of your repository. You get an inventory, a dependency graph and a validation report for the whole estate — before you commit to anything.