Task: Obtain Management Approval for Cutover
Ensure that the sponsor's management checks all items of the deployment criteria, including the cut-over date, and obtain approval for the cut-over work and for cut-over.
Purpose
To ensure that management agrees to the cutover.
Relationships
RolesPrimary: Additional: Assisting:
InputsMandatory:
  • None
Optional: External:
  • None
Outputs
Main Description

Obtain management approval after comprehensively reexamining all important items such as:

  • Completeness and reliability of the new system
  • Organization of end-user departments
  • Communication structure
  • Facilities
  • Materials
  • Understanding and awareness of the new system
  • Readiness of the in-house IS department
  • Migration and cut-over procedures
  • Procedures for restoration to the old system
  • Responsibility for cut-over risks
Properties
Multiple Occurrences
Event Driven
Ongoing
Optional
Planned
Repeatable