10. Deliver

Build and test the system. This should happen alongside early deployment as there are several interdependencies*. Key information you will need:

• Environments plan, specifications, build plans
• Technical skills matrix
• Delivery plan
• Workflow management setup
• Test plans
• Environment booking table
• Release process
• Non-production access control
• Code / config management process
• Code documentation / config workbooks
• Code / config
• Live proving scenarios*
• Defect and workaround tracker*
• Testing sign-off
• End of Test Report

Pitfall: Waiting until the end of testing to set up workarounds

Complex manual workarounds may require a long setup time.

Solution: Watch for critical and major defects in the weeks leading up to the end of testing. Start to get workarounds ready well before testing ends.

Pitfall: Looking at workarounds in isolation.

This will mask where the same team is needed to execute multiple workarounds. They may not have the capacity for all of them.

Solution: Call out the resources needed and examine the combined list of workarounds and the aggregated effort.