1. Schedule of Events
Developing the schedule of events in the lead-up to migration events, including the critical interdependencies for both the business and technical activities.
Key Activities
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Identify high-level schedule of events.
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Create tooling & templates approach.
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Develop low-level schedule of events.
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Freeze timelines.
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Sign-Off.
Schedule of events agreed and signed off by stakeholders across Virgin Money and Nationwide.
2. Event Management & Coordination
Event Management activities in the lead-up, during and post-migration events – including Command & Control, operating model, logistics, resourcing, incident reporting.
Key Activities
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Identify Event Management activities for each workstream.
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Draft Event Management activities for each Go Live.
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Iterate Event Management operating model & plans.
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Sign-Off.
Event Management including Command & Control activities and read-out across impacted colleagues & stakeholders.
3. Risk Scenario Planning
Identify contingency & failure scenarios across all workstreams / PTTs for the migration events.
Key Activities
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Identify failure scenarios.
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Define escalation and recovery plans for failure scenarios.
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Mitigate & evidence through Testing / mitigation plans.
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Sign-Off.
Contingency plans identified, mitigated & signed off across Virgin Money and Nationwide with any residual risks identified & accepted.
4. Testing / Dress Rehearsals Approach
Building confidence in migration events by thoroughly testing each stage of the scheduled events & ensuring the support model – before & during cutover.
Key Activities
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Identify testing activities (e.g. Dress Rehearsals / data book).
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Plan Testing & Dress Rehearsal approach.
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Execute Testing & Dress Rehearsal events.
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Sign-Off.
Testing & Dress Rehearsal Events are completed with evidence provided and signed off across Virgin Money and Nationwide.
5. Hyper Care & First Occurrence Validation
Activities post migration events including tracking of the post go-live first occurrence validation and warranty period.
Key Activities
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Identify Post Implementation activities.
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Draft & Iterate First Implementation Validation plan.
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Define acceptance criteria for Handover to BAU.
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Sign-Off.
Post Implementation related activities across Virgin Money and Nationwide have been documented, proven and are ready to validate post migration events.
6. Technical Implementation Readiness
Assess & track readiness against critical technical capabilities that must be in place to enable migration.
Key Activities
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Identify, monitor & track progress against key business readiness activities including operating model, colleague readiness.
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Identify, monitor & track progress against key technology implementation activities required in advance of migration event.
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Define the Governance Cadence and readiness documentation needed.
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