Using what you have learned in this chapter, you should now be able to start putting together a list of implementation tasks with dates. First, the implementation team will need to determine the Go Live date. The best Go Live dates are during the slow season for a company and when there are no vacations planned for the members of the implementation team or the accounting system users.
Once the Go Live date is chosen, start there and work backwards. Try to keep in mind the amount of work needed for each task and the resources needed. For example, cleaning up and renumbering a list of 2,000 customers or 5,000 inventory items may take some significant time and should be allotted more time than cleaning up 500 vendors. If the same resource needs to perform multiple cleanup tasks, they will not be able to do them at the same time.
If you are comfortable working with Microsoft Office Project or a similar application for your planning, that is certainly a suitable tool. However...