Imagine you are the IT staff for a medium-size online e-commerce company. The company is currently running version 1 of the e-commerce platform and you have recently built version 2 which is a complete overhaul with a new database and new improved database schema. You are now tasked with coming up with a plan for “cutover” – moving business operations from the version 1 platform to the version 2 platform. This is sometimes also called a “go Live” plan.
Outline a cutover plan describing:
1) what tasks needs to be done, when they need to be done and why
2) what additional computing resources might be needed
3) what additional staffing (IT or operational) might be needed
4) what impact the particular cutover plan might have on business operations