Checking your data migration preparedness and signing off to go live

You are now in the final stages of the development phase. You have successfully deployed your Salesforce solution and executed SIT and UAT.

In this section, we are going to highlight the key practical considerations to evaluate whether you are really ready to start migrating data into your Salesforce production environment.

Evaluating your data migration preparedness

Before you embark on migrating your data to production, make sure you have prepared – and practiced – your data migration plan. It should have been done in the development phase.

Important note

If you haven’t prepared your data migration plan, you need to pause and check out the Preparing your data migration plan section in Chapter 7, Building and Testing Your Initial Release, and get cracking before proceeding.

Great, you have your data migration plan in place! This means you have determined how you will technically...