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Choose a cutover path this week instead of running two approval records

You’re the solutions / forward deployed engineer. Your team is in the room. Printed Oct 17, 2026.

The launch needs one approval record, but the two systems are already disagreeing.

The legacy tracker protects established evidence while Asana must become reliable enough to run the launch.

Who you’d be doing this for

“I had three people ask which status to trust this morning, and I couldn't give them one answer.”

Gbenga Adeyemi · Release Manager

Runs cross-functional launch gates for the customer and must certify that every required approval is complete.

What is at stake

Approved changes still show as waiting in the new work-management system while the ticketing system and CI/CD show them complete. You must weigh launch continuity against a cutover that cannot be casually reversed.

Why it isn’t already fixed

Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.

  • launch date vs. approval certainty
  • legacy evidence vs. unified work visibility
  • automated synchronization vs. human verification
  • identity controls vs. operational continuity

Why Asana

Asana API and Command deployments must hold up when enterprise customers connect work coordination to source-control, CI/CD, ticketing, and identity systems.

Written with these in mind

enterprise solutions engineerforward deployed engineertechnical consultant

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This is the setup. The work is inside.

Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.