High-Level Timeline

Now - October - Plan, convert/create/update test scripts in QC, move pending support & project work into production
(tick) 10/11/2012 – SAP release of year end base level support pack
10/20-21/2012 – Production outage; DB & OS upgrade

Day

Start

End

Task

Area Responsible

10/20 Saturday

1:30am

7:00am

System Backups

OIS

10/20 Saturday

7:00am

11:00am

Oracle Upgrade

R3-Admin

10/20 Saturday

7:00am

10/21 Sunday 1:00am

Linux System Upgrade

OIS

10/21 Sunday

1:00am

8:00am

Post Linux Upgrade SAP Processing

R3-Admin

10/21 Sunday

8:00am

9:00am

Production Validation

Admin Systems, Tech Services

10/21 Sunday

9:00am


System Opened up to the MIT Community

R3-Admin

10/22/2012 - End of day production snapshot to be used to refresh test environments
10/22/2012 - Development Freeze begins
11/01/2012 - Last date to implement support & enhancement changes until freeze ends on 12/5/2012
10/26/2012 - 11/2/2012 Unit test

11/5/2012 - 11/27/2012 System Integration Test

12/1/2012 - 12/2/2012 Go-live weekend!

12/5/2012 - Development Freeze ends