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Project Transition Plan?
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Stéphane Parent
Self Employed / Semi-retired, Leader Maker
Charlottetown, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, Canada
I'm starting to work on the project transition plan. Most of my search results for templates or plans are pretty specific to IT. My project included a much broader scope than just IT.

So far, I have to look at transitioning the following items back to the organization:
  • Functions (incident management, risk management, training, communications...)

  • Units (temporary employees)

  • Roles

  • Products/Services

  • Knowledge

  • Assets

That's the easy part. I can build the list of transition items from existing artifacts.

Where I am struggling is the information I should capture for each transition item. So far I have the following attributes:
  • Project Owner

  • Business Owner

  • Transition Date

  • Transition Actions

The last attribute is meant to capture the steps involved in transitioning the item from the project owner to the business owner.

What else should I consider? I thought of a transition status (i.e., started, in progress, ...) but figured it may be implicit in my transition date and transition plan.

Once I've got something that's fairly reasonable, I'll submit the template to share with the community. Thank you all for your help.
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Paul Azanor
Project Consultant, Lagos Nigeria
Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria
https://www2a.cdc.gov/cdcup/library/templates/default.htm

Please have a look if this can be of any help.
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3 replies by Stéphane Parent and Vincent Guerard
Jul 19, 2019 2:36 PM
Stéphane Parent
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Thanks, Paul.
Jul 19, 2019 2:42 PM
Stéphane Parent
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Looks like they call it disposition plan. It gave me a few additional ideas for transition items.
Jul 19, 2019 6:43 PM
Vincent Guerard
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Paul excellent referenced site, thanks.
Network:128112
Stéphane Parent
Self Employed / Semi-retired, Leader Maker
Charlottetown, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, Canada
Jul 19, 2019 1:58 PM
Replying to Paul Azanor
...
https://www2a.cdc.gov/cdcup/library/templates/default.htm

Please have a look if this can be of any help.
Thanks, Paul.
Network:128112
Stéphane Parent
Self Employed / Semi-retired, Leader Maker
Charlottetown, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, Canada
Jul 19, 2019 1:58 PM
Replying to Paul Azanor
...
https://www2a.cdc.gov/cdcup/library/templates/default.htm

Please have a look if this can be of any help.
Looks like they call it disposition plan. It gave me a few additional ideas for transition items.
Network:128112
Stéphane Parent
Self Employed / Semi-retired, Leader Maker
Charlottetown, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, Canada
I guess the dispostion plan is a particular case of transition plan. The difference is that the transition is not to someone else but to noghting.
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Keith Novak
Tukwila, WA, USA
I recently supported a transition effort from a production environment to the product support team. In addition to transferring the functions themselves here are a couple other items required to execute the functions:

Supporting data- Specifications, test data, and anything else needed to define the product so that the new team had a full configuration definition, and the background information to evaluate problems or proposed changes. This could be digital files, boxes of notebooks, physical test articles, or whatever the receiving organization would need to house somewhere if not in a shared system.

Unique processes and tools: Some functions developed their own applications which might be on a specific PC, or their own methods developed specifically for their function.

Knowledge transfer - In some cases there might be training required for unique processes, or tools. Prior to handing over the work, the receiving org. needs a knowledge transfer plan so they are ready to perform the function.
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Vincent Guerard
Coach - Trainer - Speaker - Advisor, Freelance
Mont-Royal, QUEBEC, Canada
Jul 19, 2019 1:58 PM
Replying to Paul Azanor
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https://www2a.cdc.gov/cdcup/library/templates/default.htm

Please have a look if this can be of any help.
Paul excellent referenced site, thanks.

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