Post-close week one: decisions that should already be made

Hypercare is calmer when identity cutovers, vendor notices, and rollback owners are named before signatures dry. We run integration runway workshops that end with a dated sequence and explicit decision points. The artifact is not optimism; it is a calendar with names.

Common gaps include dormant interfaces that everyone assumed retired and vendor notice windows that collide with blackout periods. Surfacing those early reduces heroic weekend work that burns teams before value creation begins.

We do not implement the plans—that stays with clients and integrators—but we pressure-test sequencing until it is credible enough for an integration management office to adopt without rewriting from scratch.