It is important to review any existing documents (maybe from previous projects) before re-inventing the wheel (standards and guidelines). My preference is to review existing standards with my customer and recommend any enhancements or additions that may be required for the conversion project. Consider locating the following: 1. Infrastructure guidelines - Usually
Tag: data conversion
Cracking the code to successful conversions - review or define standards
Cracking the code to successful conversions - scope
I don't know about you, but I've been on multiple conversion projects where the scope changes – especially during development. It's not that the requirements were not gathered properly; the requirements changed! The business changes and people change, so the requirements can change on large conversion projects. I like to create scope documents
20 encounters of the information management kind – #7 Data conversion strategies is where quality counts
Joyce Norris-Montanari explains why data conversion is where data quality counts.