Technical and infrastructure go-live
In most cases, considerations for new hardware or change in operational structure is advised with a new ERP system.
Hardware and environment for development and testing
Having a test or sandbox environment is critical, as this facilitates experimental changes and also verifies particular system and process scenarios by the implementation and development team.
The environment for development and testing should be formalised, and very often time is wasted on re-installation and re-configuration of the test environment when appropriate controls would have avoided this. Such controls include:
Ensuring a clear split between the development and formal test environment, to facilitate controlled feedback and release staging.
Subversion control of source code and deployment files: Subversion is a software engineering tool for controlling different versions of source code for tracking, comparison, or roll back.
A Backup strategy for development, test data, and the...
