Phase 05
Go Live
Go Live prepares a change, confirms readiness, and puts it into use.
Read the workflow from top to bottom. Each column shows the role leading that step.
Engineering
QA
Operations
Director
Support
Prepares the release and change notes.
Confirms readiness checks are complete.
Confirms the plan, monitoring, and rollback path.
Prepares user help and known issue notes.
Ready to go live?
Approves or holds when risk needs leadership review.
Puts the change into use or rolls it back if needed.
Supports users after the change is live.
Records
- Release
- Deployment
- Control
- Decision
- Evidence
Important choices
- Are readiness checks complete?
- Is the risk acceptable?
- Should the change go live, be held, or be rolled back?
Handoff
Go Live ends when the change is live, deliberately held, or rolled back.