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Process · Program QA and activation

Program QA and activation

Review audience and step logic before the manager approves a program and operations activates it.

Step by step

  1. Build the draft Marketing Operations

    Marketing Operations prepares a Draft program with its owner, type and goal. Add the audience conditions, ordered steps and exit rules. For a webinar follow-up, a list-based audience and a meeting-booked goal give the team a concrete journey to rehearse.

    • Draft journey prepared
    • Updates Programs, Program audiences, Program steps, Program exit rules, Goals
  2. Rehearse the design Marketing Operations

    Marketing Operations checks the audience conditions together and follows both branch destinations. Verify the template referenced by each email action and the list referenced by each list action. Review capacity and re-entry settings alongside global suppression.

    • Audience and action references checked
    • Updates Programs, Email templates, Lists
  3. Request review Marketing Operations

    Marketing Operations submits the journey through the program approval lifecycle, moving it from Draft to under review. Inspect the submitting user and the configuration presented for review. Use the Programs console to locate the journey and discuss its purpose with the manager.

    • Draft to in review
    • Updates Programs
  4. Approve the journey Marketing Manager

    Marketing Manager approves the audience, action sequence and exit logic after checking the content references. The lifecycle moves the program to Approved and records the deciding user and time. Resolve a disputed branch or audience condition before this decision.

    • In review to Approved with decision stamps
    • Updates Programs
    ApprovalA person approves before the work moves on.
  5. Activate the program Marketing Operations

    Marketing Operations activates the approved journey through the lifecycle and checks its activation time. Rehearse the connected CRM profile feed and inspect the resulting enrollment. At the concurrency limit, review the Queued result; a suppressed lead must remain excluded even when re-entry is allowed.

    • Approved to Active with activated at
    • Updates Programs, Members

Where it usually breaks

And how to keep it from happening.

  • An audience condition passes on its own while another required condition fails.
  • A branch destination points to the wrong ordered step.
  • Content or exit logic changes without review of the resulting journey.
  • The team opens a larger audience before rehearsing its source and sending connections.
Marketing Operations
Builds, submits and activates; Marketing Manager decides program approval.

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