Validating your upgrade project plan

Ensure that your upgrade project plan is extensive and detailed. Your project manager for this upgrade, and any other key personnel, must be available during the upgrade to answer questions and provide direction and confirmation that your plan is being implemented. Validate that your plan includes the following information:

• A list of responsibilities for the tasks involved in an upgrade
• The people with the appropriate skills have been assigned to complete the tasks
• There are adequate backup or contingency plans
• A contact sheet exists with the names of the people assigned to the upgrade tasks
• An upgrade schedule exists that includes your expectations and limitations
• A list of the parts or features that will be returned to IBM® following the upgrade (this is only valid on conversions or machine type or model upgrades)

Items that are billable during or after the upgrade include the following:

• Moving or rearranging existing hardware, except when necessary to physically install new IBM hardware that is identified as not customer-installable hardware.
• Developing a plan that consists of unnecessary actions where the same result could be attained without those actions.
• Moving items that are not affected by your new hardware, or moving items to provide for placement of your new hardware for items other than placing them in a supported location within the system. An example of moving items for reasons other than to place them in a supported location is if you move items to support a specific environment such as placement for logical partitioning or clustering considerations.