Project delivery
Project delivery
Integration handover documentation: the pack that lets your own team take over
A working interface is only half the deliverable. The other half is the pack that lets a named person inside your business restore service, rotate a credential and change a mapping without calling the people who built it.
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Integration acceptance testing against real order edge cases
Most order integrations pass their tests and then fail in week one. The difference is whether the test set was invented by the build team or drawn from twelve months of your own awkward orders.
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What an Integration Discovery Phase Should Actually Produce: The Pack You Sign Against
Discovery is not a conversation; it is a set of documents. Here is the pack an integration discovery phase should hand over, what each artefact contains, and how a finance or operations manager can audit it before signing.
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Fixed scope integration: writing the acceptance test before the build
A fixed price only holds if both sides agree in advance what finished looks like. Writing the acceptance test before any code exists turns a vague brief into a measurable contract, and removes most of the arguments that occur at go-live.
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Why integration projects overrun, and what discovery should actually produce
Nine out of ten overruns we are asked to rescue trace back to field mapping that was never written down.