Items you need to have in place before you are ready to be live.
Planning for Production
Post deployment planning is a critical part of any software implementation. We advise MFI’s to review the checklists on the pages below to prepare for production activity. All items should be documented, tested, and put into place as soon as possible.
For examples of documents from specific deployments, see the deployment project pages.
Hiring/staffing to support this function
Everyone should understand who is responsible for each function in this area. Ensure that each area is covered by the existing staff or new staff is hired/outsourced.
Troubleshooting and end-user support
- Processes for end user support and issue resolution
- Hiring/staffing to support this function
Application administration
- Processes for performing application administration duties such as making configuration changes to Mifos, adding/changing products, adding/changing offices, roles & permissions, etc
- Processes for performing user maintenance (adding new system users, removing system users who have left the organization, etc)
- Documentation
- Hiring/staffing to support this function
Mifos upgrades and bug fixes
See our general upgrade instructions and our wiki for version-specific upgrade instructions.
- Determining whether upgrades or bug fixes are required:
- What criteria will your organization use for determining this to ensure that it is minimally disruptive to the organization, but still gaining benefit of upgrades/bug fixes when necessary?
- Upgrade process /bug-fix process:
- Who will be responsible for making sure that this is executed successfully at your organization?
- What will the process be?
- What type of test hardware is required to do acceptance testing on an upgrade/bug-fix?
- What kind of user acceptance testing and training will be done for upgrades?
- Hiring/staffing to support this function
- Documentation
Determining future needs in Mifos product
Bug fixes
- Process for communicating bug fix needs to the Mifos community
- Process for having bug fixes made
New features and enhancements
- Process for requesting new features
- Process for working with Mifos community to have new features built
New reporting requirements
- Process for determining requirements for new reports <TO UPDATE>
- Process for having new reports added into Mifos