From the course: Leading Projects

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Go live or startup plan

Go live or startup plan

- The final stage of a project, when you're actually making the change from one system to another, is a time when a lot of moving pieces need to be synchronized. Because so many things need to come together so quickly during the "go live" portion of a project, you should consider having a separate project plan. In this video, we'll see why it's important to have an effective plan for a project, go live, or startup. Trying to build all of the details for a go live into the main project plan can bog down the process so it makes sense to create a separate plan that only covers the activities and deliverables for the go live. And some project management software will allow you to link a separate file of activities in the go live plan to the activities in the main project plan. We can see why separating the go live details into a separate plan would be useful by looking at H+ Sport. Starting up their new distribution center took months. The project plan included 5,000 separate activities…

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