The topic of digitization has been a top priority in many companies for several years. In addition to the technical requirements and software functionality, project planning and implementation are of great interest. We take a look "behind the curtain" and would like to provide you in this article with the most important points (from evaluation to planning to the hyper-care phase) for the successful handling and planning of a lab digitization project, so that you can expect optimal project and planning security for the ever advancing digitization process.