System Implementation

Setting up the New System

As described in the installation section of this infoKit, the system set-up activities should have been rehearsed many times during the build up to 'Go live'. Those people charged with the responsibility of setting-up the new system should by now be familiar with the process and have a detailed understanding of each task and the timings involved so that little should come as a surprise at this point. Accurate calculations such as the downtime required to convert from the old system to the new are possible only with such detailed preparation. Many of the 'building blocks' for the new production system may have already been put in place while testing and training on other instances - e.g. lists of values already populated - and so largely the cutover task at this point is the migration of 'live' data from the legacy system(s) to the new. As described in the Data Migration section of this infoKit, the final conversion of data from the old system(s) to populate the new is critical and any problems when populating data will likely impact the schedule, the level of service provided and damage what would otherwise be a otherwise faultless implementation.

Detailed task checklists should have been prepared and tested on the basis of the other instance set-ups and responsibility for each task should be allocated. The tasks are likely to include the following: