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.
Disciplines: Deployment
Purpose
To ensure that management agrees to the cutover.
Relationships
RolesPrimary Performer: Additional Performers:
InputsMandatory:
  • None
Optional:
    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