- Context
- Delivery channel uptime directly impacts revenue in a café network. Integration with the core POS environment had to be stable across sites, with clear ownership between IT and operations whenever something broke. Stakeholders: ops, support, vendor, branch teams. Constraint: go-live without orphaning the integration after the project team moved on.
- Intervention
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Guided Deliverect into the production POS stack and managed both the technical cutover and the operational transition across teams.
Phase 1 — Requirements & ownership
Clarified what “working” meant for delivery→POS (orders, menus, failure modes). Named who owns what after go-live—IT vs ops—so incidents would not bounce forever.
Phase 2 — UAT with the vendor
Ran vendor UAT against the production POS path: happy path, edge cases, and rollback expectations. Kept a tight defect loop before cutting over sites.
Phase 3 — Go-live & hypercare
Executed go-live with hypercare coverage and a clear handoff into BAU support. Documented the owned integration path so future changes had a home.
- Risks & how they were handled
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- Revenue impact on bad cutover → staged UAT, rollback plan, hypercare.
- Orphaned ownership → explicit IT/ops RACI after go-live.
- Site variance → treat multi-site differences as first-class test cases.
- What I'd do differently
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- Capture a short “top 5 failure modes” card for support on day one of hypercare.
- Add a lightweight health check for the delivery path earlier in BAU.
- Outcome
- Before: delivery-channel uptime sat in fragile handoffs between teams whenever something broke on the path into POS. After: Deliverect sits on the production POS revenue path with an owned technical cutover and clearer IT/ops ownership—incidents have a named handoff instead of an orphaned integration (qualitative; no invented uptime %).
System map
Delivery channel
apps
Deliverect
vendor
Core POS
production
UAT / go-live
owned handoff
Branches
multi-site
Puts delivery orders on the production POS path
Owns UAT through hypercare
Hands a clear ops model to IT
What shipped
- Production integration path Delivery orders land on the live POS route via Deliverect.
- UAT to go-live ownership Requirements, UAT, cutover, and hypercare with a clear IT/ops handoff.
- Multi-site rollout Branch-aware ownership so the channel does not depend on tribal knowledge.
Stack Deliverect POS UAT go-live multi-site