dylan644
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1 week ago @OlgaPotiagalova
In any other situation, on any other project I would be in favour of soft or staggered launches, but for the purposes of our MVP Go-Live in March 2025 I have to advise against it.
Benefit of a soft launch - we get some more users into the new system finding bugs and gaps for us prior to March go-live, enabling more filings as they are ready.
Limitations - We can only do this for net-new corporations so realistically very few of those new corps would have the need to perform further filings within a 2 month time window.
Additionally, if we were to enforce incorporations being done in the new system then we would create a situation where law firms would have to be using two systems simultaneously which may cause confusion and issues. This might be compounded if we were progressively releasing new filings.
Alternative Strategy - we have Benefit Companies in BCROS already, we may gain more by focusing on this test cohort and releasing all new filings in January. We may find more use of the new filings with the existing cohort of BCROS users (other than IA, Continuation In). There are currently 1074 Bens in BCROS, so there is a reasonable chance that all the filings we enable would get used at least once in BCROS just with the Bens.
Significant Risks
There are significant risks that I believe should remove a soft launch as a viable option.
Risk 1 - Data Migration - A scenario we cannot effectively prevent is this:
- User incorporates a new corp. in BCROS
- Data is synced back to COLIN
- User performs an additional filing for same corp. in COLIN
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If this were to happen we run the risk of leaving data behind on COLIN and/or breaking the migration process. Given the uncomfortably short timeline we have to develop and prove the migration toolset this is a risk we cannot afford to take on.
Risk 2 - How would we handle an Amalgamation between a corp. in BCROS and a corp. in COLIN ?
trishreimer
Mihai-QuickSilverDev
OlgaPotiagalova
BAs' perspective is required, as requested by Trish:
Below are some areas that we should consider testing to help provide some confidence and understand the potential issues with enabling the core filings in the Business Registry (BR) for all BC Corp types.
In the new BR, we'll need to be able to: • Incorporate a BC Corp - all types in the new BR • Maintain a BC Corp - all types in the new BR Then, assess downstream impacts to: • Search - can this entity be searched? What does it look like? are all docs and details there? • BN & MRAS functions as designed • all data is syncing and working as designed • Orgbook is updated • impacts of scanning/doc mgmt • 'web services' that 'call colin data' are working as designed (e.g., colin web service) • bc laws/gazette works as designed • bceid works as designed • other API's that call corp data work as designed • BNI works as designed • there may be other areas but I'll leave it with the BA's to determine what else should be tested.
@Mihai-QuickSilverDev , @dylan644