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Issue 034Field NoteReplatformingRef 103

Launch weekend: the runbook items most teams discover too late

Successfully executing a replatforming launch requires meticulous planning beyond infrastructure, encompassing critical business operations that are often overlooked until go-live.

Neil Boughton· Technical Director
4 min readReviewed April 2025
"A well-executed launch runbook extends beyond technical deployment to encompass critical business operation monitoring and issue resolution strategies."
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Neil Boughton, Technical Director at iWeb
Neil Boughton
Technical Director
29 years at iWeb

Neil leads platform architecture and integration strategy at iWeb. He has designed ERP and commerce integration patterns across manufacturing, wholesale and retail, and writes about operational resilience, release governance, observability, and the infrastructure decisions that determine whether large programmes stay stable under pressure. Bias toward durable, measurable systems over architectural theatre.

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