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Corporate Carve-Outs
Decisions that reshape organizational direction, structure, and partnerships.
Example organizations in this space:
Alvarez & Marsal
FTI Consulting
GE (industrial carve-outs)
Honeywell
This interactive experience is the shipped product itself — the same application code customers run in production, mounted read-only in your browser over a real sample journey. Not a video, not a mockup: because the demo and the product are one codebase, it can never drift from the real thing.
Inside this journey
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Pre-Sales
Qualify and diagnose before investing in a full evaluation cycle.
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Qualification
Confirm the mandate, decision authority, timeline, budget posture, and confidentiality prerequisites before full discovery.
Qualification Questions
Separation scope & shared services (high-level)
- Which parts of the business are in scope for the carve-out (products, geographies, legal entities)?
- Which shared or central services currently support the target? Select all that apply.
- Do you expect material commingled contracts or vendor transfers that will need renegotiation or consent?
Carve-out financials & auditability
- Are standalone or pro-forma financials available, and is there an identified owner to prepare Day One financials?
IT, data and compliance constraints
- Which core systems hold the target's operational and customer data? Select all that apply.
- Are there regulatory, data residency, or protected-data constraints (for example cross-border data, PHI, or guarded IP) that will affect separation?
Budget, decision authority, timeline & confidentiality (readiness check)
- Is there an allocated budget or approval to engage external carve-out advisory and which range best fits?
- Who will approve selection of an external advisor and who will act as the primary sponsor (role/title is fine)?
- Do you require an NDA, clean-room, or other confidentiality prerequisites before a fuller discovery conversation?
- What is the target timeframe for close or Day One readiness, and what is driving that date?
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Strategic Discovery
Map stakeholders, sale drivers, timeline constraints, high-level shared-service entanglements, and success signals for the separation.
Discovery Questions
Start here: quick program facts
- How would you summarize the divestiture target and the target close timing your leadership expects?
- In the last 12 months, what percentage of the target's revenue or transaction volume flowed through parent systems versus its own systems?
- Who on your team will be the single decision owner for separation milestones and signing approvals?
- Which of these outcomes must be true at close for your board or buyer to call the separation a success?
- What single regulatory or board requirement would cause you to stop the separation if it cannot be met on your timeline?
Where the entanglements actually live
- If one shared system had to remain with the parent for 12 months, which system would cause the largest cost or operational failure for the target?
- List the enterprise systems and indicate whether they are dedicated to the target, shared and separable, or commingled with the parent
- How many vendor contracts do you estimate are currently shared and would require assignment, novation, or replacement?
- Which one or two IT integrations, if disrupted during cutover, would cause the largest near-term revenue or service impact?
- Who in your organization would effectively veto proceeding if their system could not be isolated within the target close window?
Timeline stress test and immovable dates
- If the buyer insisted on day-one independence in 60 days, what single part of the program do you expect to fail first?
- Name the approvals, regulatory filings, or contractual consent deadlines that are immovable and will determine the earliest possible close date
- Quantify the minimum staff days your finance, IT, HR, and legal teams must commit per week to deliver a 90-day separation
- What are the top three sequencing risks that could force a close delay, such as contract consents, audit timing, or data migration?
- Would proceeding with a TSA longer than 12 months be acceptable to your leadership if it preserved the close date?
The money line, carve-out financials and audit exposure
- How large a dollar reclassification or purchase price adjustment would make the buyer walk or void the deal?
- List the accounting ledgers, cost centers, or chargeback pools currently used to allocate overhead to the target
- Describe your current approach to constructing a carve-out P&L and note any auditor adjustments from prior carve-outs or separations
- How many months of standalone financial statements can you produce today with current access to close books and subledger detail?
- Is there internal authority to extend the buyer's diligence window or accept escrows/holdbacks if audited pro forma statements cannot be delivered in time?
People risk and transfer mechanics that break deals
- Identify the single people-related risk that would cause a buyer to question integration viability or valuation
- For each critical role, provide the current role owner, notice period, and any contractual transfer constraints
- Quantify how many employees split time between the target and the retained business and estimate the percentage who perform mission critical functions
- Would signing short-term retention agreements for critical staff be approved by your leadership to preserve Day One capability?
- Is there a point at which unresolved employee transfer terms would cause you to pause or cancel the transaction?
Alternatives and the internal fix-it plan you may be weighing
- Assuming you pursue an internal-only route, what capability gap would be decisive in making you hire an external carve-out advisor instead?
- Name the external advisors, incumbent partners, or internal centers of excellence you have evaluated or plan to evaluate
- For each option you listed, state the single reason it might win the mandate, such as cost, speed, prior work, or relationship
- Give the single condition that, if met by your current approach, would make you keep the work in house rather than hire a partner
- Explain whether a lower fee from an incumbent would justify accepting longer TSAs or looser acceptance terms to remain with them
Operational readiness and gating constraints
- Before we commit resources, state which single integration, data, or compliance constraint would stop this engagement within your timeline
- Provide the top third-party systems or external vendors that will require handoff or integration and name the owning function for each
- Do you have dedicated internal leads in finance, IT, HR, and legal who can commit defined time during the assessment workshops?
- Rate the accessibility and cleanliness of the financial and HR data required for carve-out modeling, where 1 is fragmented sources and 5 is centralized and queryable
- Identify any regulatory approvals, contract consents, or third-party consents that are likely to exceed your target close window
- State whether denial of API or data access within 14 days would force you to extend the close, accept a longer TSA, or adopt another mitigation
Acceptance criteria, decision triggers, and next steps
- Point to the single acceptance criterion that, if unmet at cutover, would stop final approval or withholding of payment
- Provide the measurable acceptance criteria you require across carve-out financials, IT cutover, contract transfers, and HR transitions
- Under your governance model, does a failed test during separation acceptance require remediation before billing or allow staged acceptance with conditions?
- When do you expect to run the first post-close financial reconciliation after Day One?
- Select the preferred remedy your team would use for a material variance identified at reconciliation
- What immediate next step would accelerate decision making if we can show a path to your Day One acceptance criteria within your timeline?
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Separation Assessment Workshops
Run focused working sessions to inventory shared services, IT dependencies, commingled contracts, and people risks needed to scope the carve-out.
Working Sessions
- Separation Assessment Kickoff and Assumptions
- Shared Services and Cost Allocation Inventory
- IT Application and Data Dependency Workshop
- Commingled Contracts and Third-Party Obligations Review
- People Risk and Role Transfer Workshop
- List of contracts requiring immediate legal review or substitution.
- Systems ranked by cutover complexity with an initial recommended sequencing.
- Enumerated technical unknowns and a scheduling plan for engineering deep dives.
- Produce and circulate the draft application dependency diagram for review.
- Export interface inventories, API logs, and data schema documentation for top-tier systems.
- Schedule engineering detailed review sessions for all systems marked high complexity.
- Confirm contract scope and repositories
- Catalog of commingled contracts with preliminary assignability status and impacted business activities.
- Timeline showing critical contract dates and recommended actions to enable Day-One operations.
- Confirm scope and success criteria
- Deliver the contract catalog with assignability flags and critical date annotations.
- Collect master agreements, amendment histories, and SOWs for contracts flagged as high risk.
- Prepare proposed TSA scopes for services where assignability is not feasible before Day One.
- Confirm population and boundaries for the people matrix
- Completed people transfer matrix with role criticality, split-time flags, and site-specific notes.
- Prioritized list of single-point roles requiring retention or knowledge transfer activities.
- Inventory of HR documents and compliance steps required to support transfers and secondments.
- Produce and circulate the people transfer matrix template populated with initial role-level data.
- Collect employment contracts, benefits summaries, and org charts for roles marked critical.
- Document recommended retention or secondment mechanisms with preliminary cost estimates for key roles.
- Confirmed assessment scope, sites in-scope, and success criteria documented.
- Validated stakeholder roster with named owners for shared services, IT, contracts, and HR.
- Artifact and data delivery dates agreed and added to the assessment plan.
- Decision rules for disputed allocations or ownership confirmed.
- Publish the validated assessment plan including sites, owners, and workshop schedule.
- Deliver initial data-room index with links to contracts, org charts, system lists, and allocation documents.
- Provide contact list for each named service, IT, and HR owner with availability for follow-up workshops.
- Confirm decision escalation path and document required approval thresholds for allocation disputes.
- Recap scope and desired inventory format
- Validated shared services inventory with owners and per-site consumption where applicable.
- Top-tier list of services prioritized by separation risk and Day-One exposure.
- Clear evidence list for disputed allocations and agreed next steps to collect it.
- Deliver the shared services inventory spreadsheet populated with owners and preliminary allocation methods.
- Supply supporting allocation runbooks, chargeback reports, and GL extracts for top-priority services.
- Document remediation options and estimated short-term costs for high-risk services.
- Confirm system inventory and in-scope boundaries
- Completed draft application dependency map with integrations and data ownership identified.
- Map key roles, time splits, and reporting relationships
- Review commingled contracts and map to business activities
- Validate sites, functions, and stakeholder roster
- Map each shared service and owner
- Map applications, integrations, and data flows
- Identify single-point-of-failure roles and knowledge gaps
- Review required artifacts and data checklist
- Identify non-separable systems and rationale
- Assess assignability, consent needs, and notice periods
- Capture allocation methodology and evidence
- Tier systems by cutover complexity and sequencing
- Agree retention, secondment, and employment transfer options
- Agree workshop schedule and decision rules
- Identify high-risk shared services and remediation options
- Identify contracts requiring novation, replacement, or TSAs
- Agree evidence required for legal validation
- Confirm unresolved items and evidence required
- List HR artifacts required for transfers and compliance checks
- Agree evidence and technical questions for engineering follow-ups
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Solution Experience
Translate assessment findings into Day-One operating models, TSA options, and sample carve-out financials to align seller and buyer expectations.
Solution Experience
- Solution Experience — Day-One Operating Models & Carve-Out Financials
- Confirm the current state and its cost
- You confirm at least one Day-One operating model option that meets the deal timeline and buyer readiness requirements.
- Produce a reconciled sample Day-One P&L, balance sheet carve-out, and TSA cost model for the selected operating model before the decision meeting.
- You accept the sample carve-out financials as an auditable starting point for price adjustments or identify precise reconciling items.
- Walk through Day-One operating model options
- Provide the complete list of commingled contracts, shared IT components, and staff with cross-functional roles to validate separation assumptions.
- Confirm formal decision criteria and the date by which you will select the operating model and TSA approach.
- You agree the TSA scope and pricing approach sufficiently limits buyer exposure and stranded cost risk or specify required changes.
- Present sample carve-out financials for each option
- Demonstrate TSA alternatives and pricing sensitivity
- You identify the remaining evidence and timing needed to finalize SOW and authorization to proceed to separation planning.
- Draft SOW language with fee range and measurable acceptance criteria based on the chosen operating model for review at the follow-up meeting.
- Validate fit with your buyer and auditors
- Agree decision criteria and next evidentiary steps
- Solution Experience — Day‑One Operating Models & Carve-Out Financials
- Solution Experience Deck
- Solution Brief
- meeting
- slides
- document
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Solution Scope
Define deliverables, responsibilities, timelines, and measurable acceptance criteria across financials, IT separation, contract transitions, HR, and TSA design.
Scope Configuration
- Prepare carve‑out financial statements
- Design and negotiate transitional service agreements
- Segregate intercompany balances and allocations
- Establish standalone chart of accounts and accounting policies
- Extract and migrate source ERP master and transactional data
- Provision standalone IT infrastructure and tenancy
- Separate user access and directory for carved entity
- Execute contract assignment, novation, and vendor transitions
- Implement Day‑One finance operations (AP/AR/Treasury) handover
- Deliver pro forma management reporting and disclosures
- Transfer payroll and HRIS records and payroll processing
- Provide cutover execution and Day‑One hypercare support
- Build standalone cost allocation and internal charging model
- Reconcile transaction‑level data to closing balances
Scope Questions
Prepare carve‑out financial statements
- Do you have an opening trial balance for the carved unit as of the proposed close date?
- How many months of subledger and general ledger detail should be used as the basis for the carve‑out statements?
- Which accounting framework must the carve‑out statements follow (for example IFRS or US GAAP)?
- List the specific ledger accounts that currently include parent allocations and will require transaction‑level split rules (for example shared payroll clearing, corporate overhead clearing).
- Define the deliverable you expect for opening balances (for example: draft trial balance with reconciling schedules, audited opening trial balance, or management‑prepared only).
- Who in your finance team will be authorized to approve closing adjustments and provide supporting subledger exports (name and role)?
Design and negotiate transitional service agreements
- Identify the core services you expect to include in transitional service agreements (examples: month‑end close, payroll processing, IT hosting, HR administration).
- Do you have precedent TSA templates, and if so are they a master TSA or multiple department templates?
- State the maximum acceptable duration (in months) for TSAs by service category (for example finance 3‑6 months, IT 6‑12 months).
- Specify the measurable service level you require for finance close under the TSA (for example close completed within X business days, reconciliations posted within Y days).
- Choose the preferred TSA charging model for initial negotiations.
- Name the person who will be the day‑to‑day TSA contact and the signatory who can execute negotiated TSAs.
Segregate intercompany balances and allocations
- Confirm whether you have an intercompany ledger or aging that separates balances by legal entity and cost center.
- Estimate the number of intercompany counterparties that will require transactional unwinding or re‑invoicing.
- Identify the allocation bases currently used for shared costs that must be reproduced or redesigned (examples: headcount, revenue, usage hours).
- Provide the current intercompany payment terms and clearing mechanism (for example net 30, cash sweep via in‑house bank, monthly netting).
- State the residual intercompany balance tolerance you will accept at close (monetary threshold or percentage of closing cash).
- Who will approve intercompany journal adjustments and provide source invoices for recharges?
Establish standalone chart of accounts and accounting policies
- Indicate whether you require a brand new chart of accounts for the carved entity, a mapped subset of the parent COA, or reuse of the parent structure.
- Specify the expected number of account segments and required segment lengths for reporting (for example 7‑digit natural account plus 4‑digit cost center).
- List the accounting policies that will differ from the parent and must be documented (examples: revenue recognition, capitalization thresholds, lease accounting).
- Choose the level of deliverable you expect for policies and COA crosswalks.
- Name the approver for the COA structure and any policy exceptions during the cutover period.
- Provide the required lead time before Day One for the COA to be available in the ERP for posting (number of days).
Extract and migrate source ERP master and transactional data
- Identify which master data domains must be extracted from your current ERP instance (customers, vendors, chart of accounts, items, locations).
- Estimate how many months of transactional history must be migrated to the new tenancy for reporting and reconciliations.
- Confirm whether open AP and AR balances plus supporting invoice PDFs should be migrated into the target system.
- What data accuracy threshold will you require when reconciling migrated records to closing balances (for example 99.5% match by value)?
- Which extract formats can your ERP provide for bulk transfer (for example CSV flat files, database export, API feeds)?
- Who will supply the system access, API tokens, or export files and during which transfer window can exports occur?
- Indicate any data privacy or retention constraints (for example restrictions on payroll PII or customer personal data) that limit full record migration.
Provision standalone IT infrastructure and tenancy
- Choose the target hosting model required for Day One (new cloud tenancy, on‑premises environment, or hybrid architecture).
- List the infrastructure components that must be provisioned for Day One (ERP app servers, file shares, backup, DNS, email routing).
- Provide your target recovery point objective and recovery time objective (RPO/RTO) for production systems at cutover.
- Indicate whether sensitive workloads (for example payroll and HRIS) require a separate tenancy or dedicated network segmentation.
- Who will be responsible for hosting and licensing costs during provisioning and initial operations?
- Specify any regulatory compliance frameworks the new tenancy must meet and the artifacts required (for example SOC 2 report, data residency certification).
Separate user access and directory for carved entity
- Indicate the source of truth for user accounts today (enterprise directory, local Active Directory, cloud identity provider, or mixed).
- Estimate how many interactive user accounts and service accounts must be migrated or recreated for the carved entity.
- Choose whether you require a clean‑break directory separation at cutover, a federated trust pre‑close, or a phased hybrid approach.
- List the privileged administrative roles that must be replicated or restricted (examples: ERP admins, DBAs, network admins).
- Who will manage multi‑factor authentication enrollment and device inventory for Day One users?
- State whether application service accounts require credential rotation as part of the cutover and how those rotations will be authorized.
Execute contract assignment, novation, and vendor transitions
- Estimate the total number of supplier and customer contracts expected to transfer or require novation at close.
- Identify contract categories that require counterparty consent for assignment (for example leases, outsourced IT licenses, government contracts).
- State whether you have precedent novation language or clause‑level redlines that must be applied during vendor negotiations.
- Provide the list of top vendors by annual spend (for example top 20) that will require prioritized negotiations and indicate strategic status.
- What contractual acceptance evidence will confirm a successful transfer for a given contract (for example signed novation, written counterparty consent, or executed assignment)?
- Name the legal or procurement contact who will coordinate vendor consents and execute signature processes.
- Indicate whether any regulatory approvals or notifications are required for contract assignments (for example export control or public sector consent).
Implement Day‑One finance operations (AP/AR/Treasury) handover
- List the finance processes that must be operating independently on Day One (for example invoice processing, cash application, bank transfers).
- Indicate whether standalone bank accounts and payment rails must be established before cutover.
- Provide target operational metrics for Day One finance operations (for example target days payable, target days sales outstanding).
- Name the authorized signers for new bank accounts and the treasury contact for cutover day operations.
- Choose whether open AP/AR items should be migrated into the new finance system or whether new transactional processing begins at cutover.
- List the payment formats and integrations that must be live at Day One (for example ACH, SWIFT messages, virtual card feeds).
Deliver pro forma management reporting and disclosures
- List the management reports that must be available on Day One (for example monthly P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, segment reporting).
- Indicate whether you require historical pro forma adjustments and management commentary for the prior 12 months.
- Provide the KPI definitions that must appear in the reporting pack (for example adjusted EBITDA definition, headcount FTE calculation).
- State whether pro forma disclosures must include reconciliations to source subledger transactions for auditability.
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Mutual Commit
Finalize the SOW, fees, data-access authorizations, confidentiality terms, and acceptance criteria required to begin separation work.
Agreement Modules
- Master Services Agreement (MSA)
- Statement of Work (SOW)
- Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA)
- Data Access Authorization
- Data Processing Agreement (DPA)
- Fee Schedule & Payment Terms
- Retainer & Escrow Agreement
- Acceptance Criteria & Sign-off
- Change Order Agreement
- TSA Negotiation Mandate
- Third-Party Vendor Engagement Authorization
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Separation & Transition
Operationalize separation with readiness checks, execution, and formal acceptance.
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Pre-Deployment Readiness
Lock owners, system access, contract handovers, cutover windows, and data-room artifacts the delivery team requires before execution.
Pre-Deployment Questions
Environment and site access
- Which of the following system categories are in scope for the cutover? (select all that apply — so we can pre-provision access requests)
- Has the delivery team been granted the required access level to each in‑scope production environment?
- If a production freeze or cutover window is already approved, what is the confirmed date range? (leave blank if not yet approved)
Data and configuration
- Are the Day‑One data-room artifacts the delivery team requires available and validated (financial carve‑out packs, contract inventory, shared‑service allocations)?
- Is the data migration and cutover mapping approach finalized and is an owner identified for source-of-truth decisions?
- Are there documented regulatory, data‑residency, or compliance constraints that will affect validation or timing during cutover?
People and ownership
- For each workstream below, provide the named owner and role (IT, Finance, HR, Legal, Contracts) — these contacts will be our escalation and approval points.
- Are contract handover approvers (those who can sign or authorize transfers on cutover) identified and committed?
Timing and constraints
- List any blackout windows, external milestone dates (regulatory approvals, board close), or site‑specific constraints that will restrict scheduling of the cutover (date ranges).
- Has the cutover window been mutually agreed with the buyer and the seller teams?
- Will third‑party vendors or hosted providers need to attend or perform actions during the execution day (e.g., hosted ERP provider, payroll vendor)?
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Configuration Details
Capture exact runbooks, system credentials, migration mappings, and cutover timelines the team will use during the separation and cutover.
Configuration Details
Runbooks & Operational Playbooks
- Primary runbook location (enter full URL or file path the separation scripts will read from; format examples: https://..., s3://..., sharepoint:/path. Default: sharepoint:/runbooks/carveout)
- Runbook format (Default: Editable DOCX/Google Doc)
System Integrations & Non-secret Identifiers
- Primary ERP instance identifier (enter the exact instance name or tenant ID used by the separation scripts; non-secret value)
- Integration user or client ID for ERP/migration tooling (non-secret identifier only; do NOT paste passwords or tokens)
- Owner of the ERP integration credential (enter Team or Person name who will approve secret exchange; format: "Team Name" or "Person Name")
- Secure channel for exchanging secrets (Default: Your secrets manager)
Migration Mappings & Data Sources
- Canonical source for chart-of-accounts mapping (enter system name or exact file path used as the source of truth; examples: "legacy-ERP GL.csv" or "sharepoint:/mappings/coa.xlsx")
- Primary location for migration mapping files (enter full URL or file path where mapping artifacts live; Default: sharepoint:/migration/mappings)
Cutover Scheduling, Sequencing & Validation
- Cutover target Day-One effective date (format: YYYY-MM-DD)
- Cutover window length in hours (enter numeric value; Default: 8)
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Execution & Separation
Execute the separation plan with coordinated sequencing, task owners, TSA negotiations, and cutover coordination to achieve Day One readiness.
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Separation Acceptance
Formal acceptance checklist to verify standalone financials, IT cutover success, contract transfers, and HR transitions are complete before billing or close.
Checklist items
- Receive final Day‑One standalone financial statements
- Obtain buyer finance acceptance sign-off of financial statements
- Confirm ERP/accounting system cutover and trial-balance reconciliation
- UAT sign-off from designated business owners for all critical systems
- Verify backup/rollback point and documented backout plan
- Confirm network, identity, and access provisioning completed
- Obtain executed contract transfers, assignments, or consents
- Complete HR transfer actions and payroll/benefits setup
- Provide proof of required business registrations and tax IDs
- Issue signed Separation Acceptance certificate authorizing billing/close
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Success
Confirm outcomes in post-close reviews, track residual issues and enhancements, and capture lessons learned for remaining transition items.
Success Reviews
- Go-live Health Check (weeks 1-4 post-close)
- First Measurement Review (weeks 4-10 post-close)
- 90-Day Residuals and Stabilization Review (around day 90)
- Quarterly Realization Review (ongoing quarterly)
- Annual Lessons Learned and Closeout Review (12 months post-close)
Issues & Enhancements
- Circulate the quarterly metric dashboard and updated residuals register after the meeting.
- Document the current percent of contracts transferred and IT cutover completion rate against Solution Scope targets and list residuals requiring action.
- Agree a prioritized, time-bound stabilization plan that closes critical residuals within the agreed window.
- Clarify the long-tail support or handoff responsibilities for remaining items and how progress will be reported.
- Publish the residuals register with priority, acceptance criteria, and target close dates.
- Set up a weekly status update mechanism for critical residuals until they are closed.
- Confirm the scope and duration of any continuing advisory support for long-tail items in writing.
- Quarterly metric trends
- Verify that TSA cost and month-end close cycle time are trending as expected against Solution Scope targets, or surface corrective actions if not.
- Confirm open residual issue count is decreasing and that overdue items have committed remediation dates.
- Agree any necessary runbook or process updates to prevent recurrence of top issues.
- Re-confirm scope and owners
- Document any agreed runbook changes and schedule training or walkthroughs if required.
- If stability is achieved, propose the next meeting be async and capture agreement in writing.
- Outcome summary against Solution Scope
- Agree the final tally of residual issues resolved versus baseline and document the financial reconciliation variance for audit trail.
- Capture a prioritized set of lessons learned and concrete changes to separation playbooks for future use.
- Confirm archival location for artifacts and owner assignments for any long-tail items retained beyond closeout.
- Publish the lessons learned report and updated separation playbook with version control.
- Archive final artifacts and runbooks to the agreed repository and confirm access controls.
- Create a short-list of recommended process changes for future separations and distribute to the program governance forum.
- Confirm owners for each acceptance criterion recorded in Solution Scope and their immediate responsibilities.
- Validate Day One operations completed and identify top 5 open issues with agreed remediation owners and target dates.
- Confirm legacy system wind-down approach is enforced or an explicit retention plan is in place.
- Publish the go-live health summary and the prioritized open-issue tracker for async updates.
- Collect and circulate the data sources that will feed the first measurement (ledger extracts, ticket system, TSA invoicing data).
- Schedule owners for weekly short-burn remediation checkpoints until the first measurement.
- Present first-wave outcome data
- Establish whether month-end close cycle time and unresolved ticket counts are on trajectory to meet the targets recorded in Solution Scope.
- Agree a prioritized remediation plan with named tasks, owners, and completion dates to close gaps before the next review.
- Confirm TSA monthly cost variances and actions to bring spend in line with the forecast recorded in Solution Scope.
- Publish the metric dashboard extracts and the root-cause analysis pack used in the meeting for auditability.
- Create the remediation plan with tasks, owners, and milestone dates and circulate for acceptance.
- Open escalation for any remediation tasks without an accountable owner within 48 hours.
- Restate Solution Scope transfer and cutover targets
- Root-cause analysis for metric gaps
- Lessons learned workshop
- Persistent blocker review
- Present outcome data and gap list
- Deployment and cutover validation
- Prioritize residuals by business impact
- TSA spend and burn review
- Enhancements and runbook updates
- Early adoption signals and user access
- Long-tail items and archival plan
- Agree time-bound stabilization plan
- Retire the incumbent system and fallback controls
- Runbook and artifact handover
- Agree corrective actions and owners
- Open action follow-ups
- Confirm timeline to stable operating cadence
- Open issues triage and immediate remediation
- Confirm handoff or continuing support model
- Short cadence if no changes
- Agree cadence to first measurement