Now that we understand the production environment and the roles and responsibilities involved, let's focus on the go-live activities, that is, what needs to be done as part of go-live. Depending on the size of the project and the scope of go-live, there can be hundreds of activities that need to be performed during go-live.
At a high level, the following list represents the various key activities performed during go-live:
- Final code deployment: You need to deploy the final signed-off application, including all your customizations, ISV solutions, and so on. For cloud deployment, you have to submit a service request to deploy the final build on the production environment before go-live.
- Dependent application changes: As part of your implementation project, you may have some new or existing application changes that integrate with or support...