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Data-Migration Risk Checklist

A pre-go-live checklist for data migrations: data quality, field mapping, reconciliation, rollback and sign-off.

First page of Data-Migration Risk Checklist

What's inside

  • A migration details block: source and target systems, go-live date, migration lead and business owner.
  • Source data quality: profiling, known issues, agreed quality thresholds, extract testing and PII handling.
  • Field mapping and transformation: the mapping document, tested transformation rules, dropped fields and reference data.
  • Reconciliation: row counts, monetary totals, an automated pass/fail report and a named sign-off owner.
  • Rollback plan and cut-over rehearsal: trigger criteria, a tested procedure, a rollback window, a full rehearsal and business acceptance testing.
  • Sign-off from the migration lead and business owner, plus finance or audit and the DPO where they apply.
  • Each item has acceptance criteria, a priority, a status and an owner column.

Format: PDF (4 pages) and Excel workbook.

How to use it

Work through it in the weeks before go-live and hold the cut-over until the required items are done.

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