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Go-live

Meaning in project management, with examples

/ˌɡoʊ ˈlaɪv/nounCommon term

In project management, go-live means: The moment when a new system, website or process starts to be used for real work by real users, after development and testing are complete.

In Turkish: canlıya geçiş, devreye alma, yayına alma

How it is used

A key milestone in IT and business-change projects. People talk about the go-live date, go-live weekend and go-live support. The verb is go live (no hyphen): the new system goes live on Monday.

Example sentences

  1. The go-live is planned for the first weekend of April, when the stores are quieter.

  2. The new payroll system went live last month without any major problems.

Common collocations

  • go-live date
  • go-live support
  • go live
  • after go-live
  • roll outTo introduce a new system, product, process or policy to its users, often step by step, for example first to one office and then to the whole company.
  • handoverThe formal transfer of a finished product, a system or a piece of work, along with the knowledge and documents needed, from the project team to the people who will use or support it.
  • milestoneAn important point or event in a project schedule, such as the end of a phase or the approval of a key document. It marks progress and takes no time itself.
  • deadlineThe latest date or time by which a task, deliverable or project must be finished.

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