FastTrack go-live assessment
Microsoft FastTrack for finance and operations apps is a customer success service that is designed to help you move smoothly and confidently to finance and operations apps so that you can realize business value faster.
When participating in the FastTrack program, you receive guidance about implementation best practices, planning for successful rollouts, and expanding capabilities. However, you can implement at your own pace. You also have access to Microsoft Solution Architects who are committed to making your experience with finance and operations apps a success.
All finance and operations apps customers need to complete a go-live review with the Microsoft FastTrack team before their production environment can be deployed. This assessment should be successfully completed before you request your Production environment. If you aren't familiar with Microsoft FastTrack, go to Welcome to FastTrack for Dynamics 365.
About eight weeks before go-live, the FastTrack team will ask you to fill in a go-live checklist:
- If you have a combined annual adjusted revenue of 300,000 U.S.Dollars (USD) or more, a Microsoft Solution Architect is assigned to your project, who drives various workshops with Customer and Partner during the implementation.
- If you a combined annual adjusted revenue less than 300,000 USD, all the communication with the FastTrack team is via email.
To learn more about FastTrack eligibility, review the Customer eligibility and partner qualifications.
You can also download a FastTrack pre-go-live checklist.
The project manager or a key project member needs to complete the go-live checklist during the pre-go-live phase of the project. Typically, the checklist is completed four to six weeks before the proposed go-live date, when UAT is completed or almost completed.
After the checklist is submitted, a Microsoft solution architect will review the project and provide an assessment that describes the potential risks, best practices, and recommendations for a successful go-live of the project. In some cases, the Solution Architect might highlight risk factors and ask for a mitigation plan. When the assessment is completed, the Solution Architect will indicate that you're ready to request the production environment in Lifecycle Services.
If you request the production environment before the assessment is completed, the deployment will remain in the Queued state until the assessment is successfully completed.
You can cancel an environment deployment request while it is in a Queued state by following these steps:
- Select Queued.
- On the Customer sign-off tab, select Clear sign-off.
This will set the environment back into a state of Configure and allow you to make changes to the configuration, such as selecting a different datacenter or environment topology.