the.com/cutover
The moment you stop praying the new system works and find out live.
means The scheduled switch from an old system or process to a new one, when everyone goes live for real.
from A straightforward compound of 'cut' (to sever or switch) and 'over' (to the other side), rooted in industrial and telecom usage — originally describing the literal act of cutting over wires or lines from one network or system to another. It carried into computing and project management in the 20th century to mean the official switchover from an old system to a new one.
- origin
- railroad term for switching trains to new tracks
- risk window
- usually scheduled for 2am on a weekend
- rollback plan
- the thing everyone skips, then desperately needs
- not migration
- migration is the plan, cutover is the leap