Work Product (Artifact): Development Hand-Off Confirmation

Notification from QA to Development and Project Management to confirm and approve a successful hand-off of software.

Purpose

To communicate to other stakeholders about the successful hand over process from development to QA at the beginning of the QA cycle.

Relationships

Roles	Responsible: QA Lead	Modified By: Development Lead Project Manager QA Lead
Input To	Mandatory: Conduct Smoke Testing Execute Testing (SIT,Regression,UAT)	Optional: None	External: None
Output From	Hand-Off from Development to QA

Main Description

Email notification from QA Lead to development and project manager to confirm and approve the hand over process before deploying the code in to QA environment.

Email notification will include the following details:

EPMO#
Project Name
A statement acknowledging the acceptance of hand over from Dev.

Properties

Optional
Planned

Key Considerations

To make this as a task in project schedule and treat it as a milestone.

Tailoring

Impact of not having	QA start date can be delayed which will result in project delays and/or poor quality.
Reasons for not needing	Required for all projects that are developed in-house.

Version and Release

Unified Life Cycle (ULC): 5.1, November 3, 2014
Phase Gates: 1.1, May 27, 2014
Process Engineering Process (PEP): 1.1, May 27, 2014