Go-live

Our BPM system is now officially a BPM "suite" and is in a state of readiness for go-live. All that remains is for us to obtain final sign-off from our stakeholders and our sponsors. Then it is simply a matter of following our detailed implementation plan. When we do put the new system live, it is important that we don't get sidetracked by the million and one "good ideas" that are bound to arise as a result of us letting loose a bunch of new users on the system. The Business Analyst's favorite weapon has always been "prioritization" and this will be an excellent time to put it into practice.

After all, with the system now live we are no longer in the development phase: anything that comes up now is a change request for a live system. Change requests should be prioritized according to the business case for the change and a decision on their validity taken by some kind of review board.

Now that our system is live, we are ready for the final stage of our BPM project: ongoing process improvement...