Adobe Commerce Named-Team Verification Checklist

Create one evidence record for each proposed person

Company partner status, credential totals, case studies, office locations, and headcount can support a shortlist. They do not prove that a proposed person is available, has the required skill, or will work the agreed schedule. The proposal and statement of work must connect each material role to a named person and current evidence.

Keep the records comparable: Use the same role brief, evidence request, interview structure, technical exercise, scoring rule, and approval route for every supplier.

Confirm who the person is and who controls the work

• Record the person's full legal name, preferred working name, role title, country of work, local time zone, and proposed start assumption.
• Verify identity through the buyer's approved process before granting system, repository, facility, or data access.
• Record whether the person is an employee, affiliate employee, agency worker, independent contractor, or subcontractor.
• Name the employing or contracting legal entity and confirm that it is covered by the supplier agreement, confidentiality duties, data terms, and security controls.
• Record the supplier manager, buyer manager, technical reviewer, access sponsor, and escalation contact.
• Confirm where the person will work and which approved devices, networks, repositories, environments, and communication systems they may use.
• List any conflict, other client commitment, subcontracting layer, or legal restriction that may affect allocation, access, confidentiality, or continuity.
• Confirm that identity, relationship, location, and access information may be kept and reviewed for the required contract and audit period.

Verify each credential against the proposed role

An Adobe partner level and a company-wide certification count are company signals. Neither proves the credential, status, experience, allocation, or availability of one proposed developer.

Test the work the person will actually own

• Match recent work to the buyer's Adobe Commerce version, storefront, hosting model, extensions, integrations, traffic, data, release process, and risk.
• Ask the person to explain one comparable decision, the options considered, evidence used, failure modes, result, and what they would change.
• Use a buyer-controlled technical discussion or paid exercise when the role is material. Keep the task relevant, bounded, lawful, and equal across candidates.
• Verify authorship and context before relying on code, diagrams, articles, credentials, or case material. Respect prior-client confidentiality.
• Separate years of work from seniority. Record the decisions the person can make, the outputs they can own, the review they need, and the risks they can handle.
• Record required support from architecture, QA, DevOps, product, data, security, and business owners. Do not hide a team gap inside one person's title.
• Ask for references only where lawful and proportionate. Verify the relationship, role, period, work boundary, and evidence being confirmed.

Put availability and working windows in writing

Use the enterprise SOW and overlap checklist to convert each person's schedule into a contract record. Do not infer team coverage from company locations.

Approve access after identity and role fit are accepted

• Assign a buyer sponsor for every repository, environment, cloud account, business system, data set, support tool, and privileged role.
• Grant unique named accounts with multi-factor authentication, least privilege, approved devices, logging, expiry, and periodic review.
• Define production, payment, personal data, secrets, logs, and administrative access separately. Avoid broad access copied from another role.
• Confirm code ownership, approved repositories, branch rules, required reviewers, automated checks, merge authority, and release authority.
• Define secure handling for secrets, test data, production data, customer information, local storage, screenshots, logs, exports, and external tools.
• Record required security, privacy, delivery, platform, and buyer-policy training before access starts.
• Define incident reporting, suspicious activity, exposed secret, lost device, access misuse, and emergency removal routes.
• Set automatic expiry and removal triggers for role change, leave, inactivity, substitution, termination, and contract end.

Use the security evidence request list for supplier-level controls and artifacts. Named-person access approval remains a separate buyer decision.

Prevent an unreviewed replacement from entering the team

• Define the events that permit or require substitution, including resignation, extended leave, role mismatch, allocation failure, security concern, and buyer-requested removal.
• Set notice duties, escalation contacts, service-continuity steps, and the supplier's responsibility while a replacement is reviewed.
• Require equal or stronger role evidence against the same role brief. A similar title or company credential count is not enough.
• Repeat identity, relationship, credential, role, allocation, location, schedule, conflict, training, and access checks for the replacement.
• Require buyer approval before the replacement receives access or assumes material responsibilities.
• Define knowledge-transfer content, paired time, documentation, open work, decisions, risks, contacts, environments, and acceptance.
• Define commercial responsibility for replacement search, overlap, handover, delay, and failed acceptance.
• Remove the outgoing person's access, recover devices and credentials where relevant, rotate affected secrets, and record completion.
• Keep an emergency removal route that protects systems and data even when the normal handover cannot occur.

Record why the person is approved for this role

Minimum release condition: Do not treat the role as staffed until the named person, evidence, allocation, schedule, access conditions, substitution terms, and buyer approvals are written and traceable.

Copy this request into the RFP response instructions

Compare the complete response with the enterprise Adobe Commerce partner guide. Apply the CLEAR-8 method, inspect the security evidence, and move accepted people and controls into the SOW and overlap record.