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Make sure that UAT has finished and you have the acceptance protocol signed.
Prepare Cutover planning - the template will help.
Assure the resources availability on Pfx and customer side
Prepare an exact and comprehensive (list of logics, jobs, tables etc...) environment update plan for Production (based on experience with previous update of QA environment). In case our operations team need to do actions (e.g. set up a new instance, or copy an instance) please take the lead time they need for these actions into account - this can be up to one week.
Revision of the documented implementations
Training for super users
Artifacts:
Checklist for Cutover:
The Go/No Go Live meeting took place and the decision for solution sign off has been provided.
The solution has been signed off to be deployed in production. If not, plan additional sprint and estimate time/budget impact.
The cutover plan has been prepared and agreed by Pfx and Customer.
The PROD partition is prepared and customer has access to the partition.
The technical Go Live date is scheduled and resources are allocated.
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