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title: Runbook Readiness and Handover
description: Finalize runbooks from design intent to factory-executable operating documents with clear quality gates and rollback controls.
sidebar:
  label: Runbook readiness
  order: 4
source_url: "https://framework.stackit.cloud/migration/design-and-mobilize/migration-factory-setup/runbook-readiness/"
source_file: "docs/migration/design-and-mobilize/migration-factory-setup/runbook-readiness.mdx"
---

## Objective

Runbooks from Design are often technically solid but not yet operationally complete for high-volume
factory delivery. This page defines how to convert them into run-safe, auditable runbooks.

## Readiness Dimensions

<CardGrid>
  <Card title="Operational completeness">
    Every step has owner, prerequisite, expected output, and evidence requirement.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Control points">
    Explicit entry/exit criteria, hold points, and mandatory sign-off checkpoints.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Rollback safety">
    Trigger conditions, decision authority, fallback sequence, and communication playbook.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Handover quality">
    Consumable package for wave teams: dependencies, assumptions, known risks, and exceptions.
  </Card>
</CardGrid>

## Runbook Quality Gates

- **Gate 1 - Technical readiness**: Architecture and platform prerequisites validated.
- **Gate 2 - Operational readiness**: Roles, shifts, and escalation routes confirmed.
- **Gate 3 - Business readiness**: Cutover windows and customer communications approved.
- **Gate 4 - Recovery readiness**: Rollback and hibernate/reactivation steps verified.

## Recommended Finalization Flow

<Steps>

1. Baseline runbook from Design and identify unresolved operational assumptions.
2. Add checkpoint evidence requirements and assign accountable approvers.
3. Integrate cutover, hibernate, and rollback sequence with exact trigger logic.
4. Perform tabletop walkthrough with partner factory and customer operations.
5. Run rehearsal (or pilot wave) and update runbook from observed variances.
6. Sign off final handover package for wave-scale operations.

</Steps>

## Minimum Handover Package

- Approved runbook with versioned change history.
- Dependency and interface map for the target wave.
- Escalation and communication matrix.
- Validation checklist and evidence index.
- Rollback and hibernate/reactivation procedure sheet.

## Related Target Operating Model guidance

[Service Management and Operations](/migration/design-and-mobilize/operating-model/service-management-and-operations/) defines the steady-state support, service-target, and operational ownership model that receives a workload after wave handover.

## From Design Draft to Factory-Ready Runbook

A Design runbook typically documents the target sequence and rollback intent for one representative
workload of an R-strategy. Factory Setup turns that single-workload runbook into a repeatable,
wave-scale operating document: it adds explicit evidence checkpoints, assigns approvers by role rather
than by name, and generalizes environment-specific steps into parameterized instructions that any wave
squad can execute consistently across many similar workloads.