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title: Jumpstart Your Upgrade
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# Jumpstart Your Upgrade

Guidance on upgrade planning and preparation

## Accelerator Overview

Jumpstart Your Upgrade provides Impact Customers with guidance, tips, and tools to execute a ServiceNow upgrade. It enables Customers to upgrade by helping them understand leading practices as well as giving them an opportunity to see what their instance looks like upgraded in a temporary instance.

## Package Availability

**Note:** This Accelerator is available for Impact Guided, Guided+ \(Strategic Value or Platform Governance\), Advanced, and Total packages.

Offered pursuant to the applicable ServiceNow Impact Package and Accelerator descriptions available at [https://www.servicenow.com/legal/servicenow-impact.html](https://www.servicenow.com/legal/servicenow-impact.html).

## What You Get

-   **Upgrade Assessment**
    -   Provisioning of a pre-upgraded temporary instance
    -   Upgrade assessment using ServiceNow HealthScan
-   **Customer Coaching Session \#1 \(up to 60 min\)**

    Review of:

    -   Temporary instance
    -   Upgrade leading practices
    -   Upgrade assessment review
    -   Skipped log guidance
    -   Release notes & Known PRBs
    -   Utilizing Automated Testing Framework \(ATF\)
    -   Sample upgrade project plan
-   **Customer Coaching Session \#2 \(Optional upon Customer request – up to 60 min\)**
    -   Opportunity for Q&A related to upgrades
    -   Provide additional guidance on leading practices and upgrade assessment

## Requested Customer Resources

|Customer Resource |Responsibilities |
|------------------|-----------------|
|Upgrade Lead - Required|Subject matter expert responsible for upgrading the ServiceNow platform.|
|System Administrator\(s\)- Required|Maintains the stability and usability of the ServiceNow platform by performing application maintenance, managing support for cases related to ServiceNow applications, and contributing to ServiceNow software releases by delivering configuration tasks and features.|
|Enterprise Architect\(s\) - Recommended|Provides a holistic view of the organization’s strategy, processes, and other systems, including any necessary policy or organizational requirements. Helps guide the Platform Owner to align with technical or functional standards.|
|Developer\(s\) - Recommended|Writes code for the ServiceNow platform.|

## Requested Information / Access

Please refer to the applicable Impact Accelerator Description available at [https://www.servicenow.com/legal/servicenow-impact.html](https://www.servicenow.com/legal/servicenow-impact.html)

## Exceptions

This Impact Accelerator in its entirety or portions of the Impact Accelerator Activities may not be available to customers in the FedRAMP, NSC DOD IL5, or Australia IRAP-Protected data centers, to self-hosted customers, or in other restricted environments.

ServiceNow is not responsible for implementing the applicable upgrade on Customer’s sub-production or production instances.