| Days before release | Step | Who performs? | Notes & Templates |
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| 21 | Create CRQ request in Helix | Delivery Mgr |
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| 14 | UAT Sign off | End Users |
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| 14 | Go / No-Go | Scrum Master |
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| 10 | Attend Pre-CAB | Delivery Mgr | This will be on same week as CAB on Monday |
| 7 | Attend CAB | Delivery Mgr | Every Thursday |
| 7 | Production deployment documentation | Data Engineer |
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| 2 | Get written access approvals | Data Architect | If there are new datasets to be created or accessed, obtain written approval from the data owners over e-mail |
| 1 | Code push to PRE PROD | Data Ops (Sai) | Support may be needed from architect and data engineers |
| 1 | Code push to PROD | Data Ops (Sai) |
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| 0 | Grant dataset permissions | Cloud Ops (Darren) | If there are new datasets, provide the written approval from data owners to Cloud Ops and ask them to grant the access |
| 0 | Initial run in PROD | Data Ops (Sai) |
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| 0 | Smoke test | BA | Spot check to confirm data looks OK |
| 0 | Stakeholder Communication | Product Owner | Send out celebratory communication e-mail to relevant users & stakeholders |
| 0 | Release Notes | Product Owner | Update Release Notes on the wiki |
| +1 to +14 | Hypercare | Squad | Official period is 2 weeks of hypercare - but also after that, the squad is primary contact point |