Overview
Readysell will not track progress of your project week by week. Readysell will just check you have completed and signed off on each of the conversion checklists. While Readysell will not set a go live date until the stage 1 and stage 2 checklists are signed offThe actual implementation plan for your business will be tailored to your exact needs in discussion with you and your team. The notes below are just a general guide as to some of the key steps frequently included in individual problem plans.
Generally the project is a joint effort. It will involve quite a bit of time from your team leader, your team and the team at Readysell.
You still should have your own week by week plan for the project with a target conversion date in mind. Otherwise your project can drift without the focus you get by targeting a date. The target date is just for your purposes, generally it does not matter we will delay implementation if you are not ready by the specified date, but having a target will help you keep pushing time into self training and other tasks you we all need to perform.
Starting work on the project plan
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- We suggest you review our What do I get? page, this includes:
- What do I get from my Readysell project planning?
- What do I get for my data conversion?
- What do I get for my training and financials budget?
- What do I get for my eBay Integration?
- What do I get for my phone and ticket support?
- What do I get for my reporting?
- Why agreeing on your training budget learning skills training expectations and self training are critical
- We suggest you review our What do I get? page, this includes:
- Just for discussion purposes. You might perform the following budgeting process preparing to complete the stage 0 checklist when planning the project and before work starts.
- The example below is for discussion purposes only. Your business requirements are unique, you may need a totally different plan, especially if you are a Readysell Go site:
- Readysell handles costs and charges. Readysell needs us to agree on a training and implementation budget, at least in draft form, so that he can estimate costs and charges.
- Planning the Readysell on site staff over the course of the project and the training generally follows a standard procedure. We find investing in training before the conversion will help you get the most out of the system and will make the conversion as stress free as possible for you and your customers.
- We can’t firm up the budget until the project engagement work above is complete. But just for discussions sake, let’s say you run with one Readysell team member on site for two days over the conversion weekend. This would result in the following conversion budget:
- Say 4 Readysell implementation team days on site
- Perhaps for example around 5 hours’ financial implementation assistance. You will need to put quite a bit of effort in to keep the financials implementation assistance down to this level
- Perhaps for example Around 10 hours remote training and training audit in addition to any included ours. Lets say for example you have 8 included hours. You will need to do a lot of self-training to keep the remote training to this level
- You could work out your draft budget using a method like that shown below:
o Onsite training and implementation assistance:
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OnSite
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Total on site days
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Engagement
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Last week before go live
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Go live weekend
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Week after go live
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Engagement visit
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2 days
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0 days
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Main site conversion
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4 days
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1 days
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2 days
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1 days
- A Readysell team member on site on site for 4 days on the go live weekend. Perhaps from Friday __/__/____ to Monday __/__/__, depending on the agreed go live date
- Training notes
- Remote training
- Remote training is charged on a time and materials basis. Expect something like 10 hours
- You may have a credit for 8 included remote training hours based on Readysell’s special deal for Office Brands dealers
- Be aware this is a bit light on remote training hours.
- Your team will need to rely on a lot of self-training and pick up the training audit feedback quickly to keep to this budget.
- Financials implementation assistance
- Financials implementation assistance is charged on a time and materials basis and normally involves a few hours before go live and can involve days after go live.
- Financials assistance is normally provided remotely Expect something like 5 hour in total
- Be aware this is a bit light on financial assistance hours. Your team will need to pick up the financials quickly and put in quite a bit of their own time to keep to this budget.
- Ongoing training
- You should budget for some 8 hours training per year to help keep your site up to speed with the latest Readysell developments.
- Post implementation work, bringing new features on line will require training on a ongoing basis, every now and again, for many months after Readysell goes live
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