Cutover rehearsal

Cutover is a production operation. Rehearsal turns guesses into timings, dependencies into a sequence, and “someone will handle it” into named Titan owners who already know your data story.

How we approach it

  1. 1

    Dry run cadence

    Repeated practice migrations with growing realism — including rollback drills when platforms allow.

  2. 2

    Timing model

    Windows for freeze, final delta, DNS, and smoke tests — with buffers that reflect real data volume.

  3. 3

    War-room roster

    Clear roles for decisions: Irish Titan staff from our headquarters who were in the mapping work — not last-minute contractors.

  4. 4

    Go / no-go criteria

    Objective checks (reconciliation, critical paths, support readiness) before the final flip.

Best practices

  • Rehearse communication, not just scripts

    Executives, support, and warehouse teams need the same clock — not three different Slack threads.

  • Keep rollback credible

    If rollback is theoretical, you do not have a plan — you have hope.

  • Treat DNS and caches as actors

    They belong in the runbook with owners and verification steps.

Irish Titan’s methodology starts with business first, online second — partnerships over transactions, then the platforms and marketing that ship outcomes. As a full-service agency we bring UX, design, and business process consulting alongside engineering and launch in the same delivery thread when your program needs it. We operate a Titan-only delivery model: the people doing the work are direct Irish Titan employees from our headquarters, not contractors or outsourced pods.

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