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Transition To Production

Need to transition to production and want practical suggestions to ensure rapid project implementation?

Objective

This phase will move the information managementTransition to Production solution into a production environment.

The initial data will be pre-loaded and the data warehouse will be tuned for performance, if necessary.

Prerequisites

All project work as identified on the following check list must be completed.

Checklist

The following project documentation should be completed and approved.

Business case
Project management plan
Communication plan
Risk management plan
Configuration management plan
Quality management plan
Training plan
Documentation management plan
Project scope management plan
Requirements specification
Requirements acceptance criteria
Requirements traceability matrix
Requirements management plan
Architecture document
Database design document
Data Movement design specifications
Data conversion design specifications
Business intelligence design specifications
Unit test plan and test results (for each module)
System test plan and results
Integration test plan
Integration test results
Training plan
Test Plan
Test data acquisition plan
Quality assurance test cases and scripts
Quality assurance test results
User acceptance test cases and test scripts
User acceptance test results
Release test plan
Release test results
Release plan
Release object migration plan

The following sign-off and approvals are required.

Business case analysis phase
Requirements analysis
Architecture and design
Build phase
Quality assurance phase
User acceptance phase
Training certification
Quality assurance and user acceptance exit criteria
Release test
Lessons learned
Production release certification


Production support acceptance

When all of the project work, or change management work, required to complete the required project documentation, and obtain the needed sign-off  signatures is complete, the solution can be certified production ready.

Summary...

The change management phase will move the information management solution into a production environment.

Upon completion of this phase, the production support team should be able to take ownership for the solution.