Provides a process that ensures changes to the production environment are planned, approved, tested, executed, and reviewed in a systematic efficient and controlled manner.

The Production Turnover Approval process is intended to ensure that:

	All systems and code are tested in a quality assurance (QA) manner and the production environment works as planned before being approved and released to production.
	All systems and code are approved by key personnel and groups affected (e.g., developers, testers, business management, and IT management) prior to production release.
	Problems found during production migration are controlled (e.g., rollback procedures are instituted) to ensure the production environment is not adversely affected.

The Production Turnover Approval contains the following topics:

    Introduction
          Purpose
          Project / System Overview
          Scope
    Production Turnover Approval Request
    Approval and Signoff

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