Orpington's ERP Go Live Readiness Checklist

These six sections mirror the six variables scored by Orpington's free Implementation Confidence Diagnostic — executive sponsorship, change management, testing discipline, data migration integrity, integration testing and cutover strategy. Testing and data migration carry the heaviest weight in that model, because gaps in those two areas surface latest and are hardest to recover from once found.

A thorough ERP go-live readiness checklist covers six areas: executive sponsorship and governance, change management and training, testing discipline, data migration integrity, integration testing, and cutover and rollback planning. Each area should be verified with documented evidence, not a self-reported status update.

A full readiness review should happen at least four to six weeks before the planned go-live date, with a lighter final verification in the week before cutover. Reviewing readiness only in the final days leaves no time to remediate a serious gap without delaying the go-live.

Sign-off should involve the executive sponsor, the business process owners for each affected function, and technical leads for data, integrations and infrastructure — not the project management office alone. A go-live decision made without business-side sign-off is a common precursor to post-go-live adoption problems.