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In ecommerce we're often asked to build a whole new house while making the existing one bigger and better at the same time. That's a replatform. You're not pausing trade while you move across, you're still hitting the numbers and running the sales while shifting the entire business onto a brand new site.

Here's the thing almost everyone gets wrong: the platform is the easy bit. A big replatform doesn't blow out because of the technology. It blows out because you try to build the shiny new tech while still running and growing the business with the same people. The teams that get through it are deliberate about resourcing the project properly, holding a hard scope and a hard date, and keeping their partners in the room.

This Playbook is anchored by a conversation with Craig Mildenhall, GM of Digital at Kathmandu, whose team moved the whole business off Magento onto Shopify Plus in four months and went live in the middle of a flash sale, something their agency had never seen done before.

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In this playbook, we cover three things ecommerce operators need to know about replatforming without stalling the business:

• Resource the project properly by splitting into a build crew and a trade crew, don't squeeze it in around the day job
• Go live with better, not perfect, hold your date, and let the rest be a little bumpy
• Keep your partners in the room solving things on the spot, and let the tickets be the paper trail, not the conversation

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