1. Terms of Reference – Go/No Go and Service Acceptance Approval Gateway
Meeting Objective(s)
A Gateway review within the Delivery phase, prior to implementation to determine whether the Business & IT are:
Ready to implement the change
Prepared for a successful transition to the new ways of working
All appropriate Business Sponsors and/or nominated Business representatives
Head of Delivery
Head of Enterprise Solutions
Head of IT Development
Head of Testing
IBM Service Acceptance
SD Service Acceptance
Attendees
The Go/No Go criteria will be reviewed at regular intervals during the Delivery phase with a final Gateway review 2 days prior to implementation
Frequency
Delivery Pack
Go/No Go Executive Gateway summary issued by the Project/Release Manager
Inputs
Chaired by Head of Delivery Enterprise Solutions
Meeting outcome recorded by Project/Release manager following the meeting
Governance
A decision to proceed to cutover and implementation of change, or not.
Signed off Go/No Go Executive Gateway summary, agreed by all attendees.
Outputs
All appropriate Business sponsors and IT Heads of Function must be available for the review or nominate appropriate deputies in their absence
Quorum 5