The Art of a Cut Over Plan

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I just sent out an email referring to a basic set of information regarding a "Cutover Plan".  Out of Curiosity, is there interest in a full blown Blog entry wrapped around this message:

"In order to come in with a strong, well formatted plan so everyone involved knows exactly when they have tasks to do and when they need to be done,  let's create a cutover plan with the following:

At a minimum the plan will have  two milestone related markers:

1.  Activity Milestones (when a particular task is completed it marks a milestone for the cutover)
2. Time based milestone (any time that is defined that activities have to be completed before or after it.

Tasks will need to have the following information at a minimum:

ID

Desc

Resource

Start time

Duration

End Time (calculated)

Dependency on another task or specific time or both (defined later)

Each of the defined tasks will occur before or after the defined milestones (#2) above. We will also be able to know if we meet any timeline constraints after we have completed filling out the plan."

Post your responses if you would like to see a detailed step by step creation process for a "Cutover Plan"!  I would go into detail on many more columns of vital information for those really high risk cutovers as well ....