Production Cutover Signoff

 

Purpose

 

The purpose of this deliverable is to provide an approved production cutover in order to begin operation of the live solution. The cutover is the final step prior to going live. It entails the final transport of customizing and developments, and the data conversion and confirmation. All business processes are verified and signed off. All technical system tests are signed off. Readiness of the system administration is signed off. The results of the Go Live check are reviewed, implemented, tested and approved. The solution is approved, signed off and ready to go live.

 

How should it be produced

 

The following steps are required for the Production Cutover signoff

 

·         Transport the customizing and development change requests containing configuration and developments to the production environment.

·         Complete data conversion or in other words complete final master data and transaction data load from legacy systems.

·         Complete manual conversion procedure, which is a documented process for entering legacy system data manually.

·         Prepare conversion checklist, which is a documented set of tasks, roles and responsibilities for the data conversion.

·         Get approved production system, which is a documented sign off that the production system is ready to go live. The approval should be based on the production system report, which details all the steps and information needed to make the decision

·         Prepare the production system report, which is a document that details the procedures and results for production readiness assessment and approval.

 

What if it is not done

 

This is a critical deliverable where all business processes and technical system tests are verified and signed off.  Without the sign off, it is difficult to differentiate if all the activities were performed and users cannot start using the system.

 

Source of Input (Deliverable/Other)

Input

 

Established Functional and Technical Support

·         (All deliverable outputs)

Preliminary Go Live Plan

·         Preliminary cutover plan

Trained End Users

·         (All deliverable outputs)

End User Training and Documentation

·         Documentation content

<Data Transfer>

·         Data transfer logs

Technical and Interface Design Document

·         Interfaces topology

 

Outputs

 

Refer to the breakdown of the deliverable in the roadmap structure.

 

Additional Information

 

None.