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Pre-Cutover
• WIND DOWN, WIND UP
• ACTIVE TRANSACTION DATA
The week or two before go-live is very busy. Your
data is migrated for a final time into the
production system and the focus becomes the
active transactions so that you can conduct
business in the new system. A common strategy
is to wind down entering transactions in the old
system and to “wind up” or begin entering
transactions into the new system.
For example, if you are creating Purchase Orders
that will be received in the next month, then
enter those transactions in the new system and
use the Purchase Orders from the new system.
You can also enter Purchase Orders in your old
system and duplicate the input into the new
system by simply using the Purchase Order ID
from the old system.
Additionally, no matter how hard the project
teams try, there is always one more thing to do.
Minor system changes are inevitable during the
cutover once the users come to the realization
that the new system is actually happening. This
always triggers a more critical review along with
last minute changes which may extend into the
first couple weeks of go-live.
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