ERP Go-Live Readiness Checklist

Who it's for

• Sponsors and steering committees facing a go/no-go decision in the next few months
• Programme directors and cutover leads preparing rehearsals and the cutover runbook
• Finance and operations leads who will own the first period close and the first weeks of hypercare

What's inside

1. Go/no-go criteria agreed in advance, with the evidence expected for each and a named decision authority
2. Cutover rehearsal evidence: timed runbooks, reconciliation results and rollback criteria
3. Business readiness by process area, assessed by the business rather than the programme
4. First-occurrence tests for critical processes: first payment run, first invoice run, first close
5. Hypercare KPIs baselined from legacy data, and exit criteria agreed before go-live
6. A red-amber-green process dashboard for the first weeks after launch

Why from me

Go-live decisions go wrong when the criteria are invented in the meeting. This is the checklist I use so that the decision is a formality by the time the go/no-go meeting happens, and so that hypercare ends by criteria rather than by calendar.