Your company, which specialises in the manufacture of luxury garden furniture to the UK market, is to embark on a project that will deliver a major update to its payment processing component, addressing improvements to functional suitability and performance efficiency. You have just selected a performance testing tool but it has not yet been implemented.

A decision has been made to transfer responsibility for functional system test implementation and execution to the company's offshore test team. System test analysis and design will be performed onshore, at the company's UK head office. You have direct management responsibility for all test personnel, onshore and offshore.

Which of the following is a test management activity that is MOST important for this project?