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Notes on the Timeline
With 2020 more
firmly in our rearview mirror, the FST project team is moving forward into new
and exciting territory. We’re seventeen months and
a couple of days away from the go-live of Workday Financials, and there’s a lot
happening. We're fresh off of the first round of Customer Confirmation
sessions and the project team is in its first of two sprints – during the next
two months, they’ll be making sure we have all the requirements our
stakeholders have outlined are configured or in progress toward configuration
in the tenant.
After that,
they’ll do a second build of the Workday financials tenant, and then, it will
be Customer Confirmation Session time once more! For this round of CCS, we’ll
not only include more folks on the invite list, but we’ll also be working with
our Change Leaders in the schools and units to help do some additional outreach
in their areas. After that,
there will be two more sprints to make sure everything is ready, from
configuration to user stories, and then it’s time for end to end testing.
FDM News - What's up in the Chart of Accounts Area
The project team is focusing on developing the mapping tool that will get our current
GA/GL strings into the new FDM. They
have a pretty good idea on most mappings, but there are of course some things
they can’t be sure of, especially because of the current flexible use of the
PTAEO. They’ll be working
closely with schools and units and showing some sample mappings in groups like
the Fiscal Administrators in the coming weeks and months. The whole FDM mapping process will be
iterative, beginning around April or May and stretching all the way to March of
next year.
There will be
lots of opportunities during that time for tweaks and adjustments. If you’re a fiscal person in your area, you
may be wondering what you can do to get a head start on all this mapping. You can start thinking about your tasks – the task has been used in a
number of different ways by different departments. If you can think about the easy connections –
the ones that can map to already-identified work tags, that will be a great help,
and then the team can work closely with your school and unit on the outliers.
Nicole Ferretti recorded a great “intro” to all the FDM before the
first round of Customer Confirmation Sessions.
It’s a good primer to get your head around the new structure and help
you start thinking. View it here.
Training News
Besides the everyday
work that the training team does -- being imbedded with the FST project team in
an advising capacity, doing outreach, and gathering change impacts, they’ve also
been talking to peer institutions that have recently gone live with Workday
Financials.
They have learned a lot from our colleagues, both on what really worked for them in terms
of training and on what to avoid. We’re on the cusp of starting content
creation for training. This spring, they will be developing a curriculum, a training plan, and a calendar. Read more here on the blog.
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