We didn’t struggle to choose the software. We struggled to get people to change years of habit — and that’s the part nobody budgets time for.
Every system migration I’ve been part of has been sold internally as a technical upgrade. In practice, the technical migration is the easy 20%. The other 80% is behavioural: getting a team that has always kept its own local documents to trust a shared, visible system instead.
The turning point for us wasn’t a training session on its own — it was removing the old way entirely, on a fixed date, with no fallback. Ambiguity is what kills adoption; a firm, well-communicated deadline is what forces it.
If I were advising anyone starting this now, I’d say: budget as much time for the conversations about why as you do for the technical rollout. The software will work on day one. The culture takes longer.
The technical migration is the easy 20%. The other 80% is convincing people to trust something new.