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Testing: Making the IT Separation Foolproof

In: Divestitures and Spin-Offs

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  • Joseph Joy

    (Deloitte Consulting LLP)

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Divestiture transactions demand a complex and wide-ranging set of changes to business-critical information technology (IT) systems. These IT changes go through a software development life cycle (SDLC) that includes designing, building, testing, and deploying the changes. These changes must move through the SDLC quickly to avoid disrupting business for the divested entity and the seller company on Legal Day 1. Most IT teams are not accustomed to this size, scale, and complexity of changes required while being in a race against the clock. Testing teams engaged in divestitures are responsible for ensuring that the existing IT applications and infrastructure components are able to separately recognize and support legal entities, customers, suppliers, employees, product lists, and processes that are split between the seller and the divested entity. Additionally, testing teams must also operate under extreme time constraints to minimize defects and risk to transaction close. This complexity increases exponentially with the size of the IT landscape and puts an enormous burden on testing teams to go above and beyond in planning and executing the required activities.

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  • Joseph Joy, 2018. "Testing: Making the IT Separation Foolproof," Management for Professionals, in: Divestitures and Spin-Offs, chapter 0, pages 265-274, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:mgmchp:978-1-4939-7662-1_23
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7662-1_23
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