Heading toward Testing
We’re wrapping up Configuration and Prototype,
and soon the team will start building another instance of Workday Financials as
we get prepared to move into a new phase: the testing phase. During that phase, the team will test all of the
business processes we’ve been developing from end to end, making sure all the
technology flows as we expect it to and making tweaks where we find
issues. There will be more information
coming soon on what the Test phase will be like, so stay tuned.
UVA FST Glossary
This is different than Workday Words! The glossary comes out of the need to have a
consistent and shared vocabulary for the finance work done across UVA. While Workday Words is a dictionary of
Workday financials terminology compared with our legacy terms, workday terms
aren’t the only new words we’ll need to learn during Finance
Transformation. The glossary is a
compilation of terms that we’ll be vetting and adding to slowly, describing
key components of UVA’s financial workings so we can all have a shared understanding
of common terms. Access the glossary on the FST website.
FDM News: Mapping is coming
The team is taking a first stab at how PTAO’s
will map to the FDM, and then those outputs will be put into UBI for the
schools and units to review and update.
It’ll be an iterative process as schools and units review and update
mappings, and then the FDM team reviews and reloads. Schools and units will be assigned to a pod,
where they’ll be able to collaborate with similar schools and units, there will
be a kickoff workshop that gets individuals in the schools and units ready to
do the mapping, and the FDM team will be checking in and helping out, too.
Training Update: Role Mapping
The training for Workday Financials will be role-based, which means it’s training
that gives you what you need to perform your role within the system. The team will start mapping each role in Workday Financials to people doing
the work here at UVA so we can make sure the right users get the right
training. The mapping process will follow a cycle of
review from lots of folks in governance and across grounds to make sure we get
it right. Read more on the blog.
CCS2: Coming to a screen near you?
We recently finished the second round of
customer confirmation sessions. We’re snipping
the CCS2 recordings into bite-sized bits so
that our Change Leaders can share with others as they see fit.
You can check out the slides and materials from the CCS2 sessions here in the Online Community: https://communityhub.virginia.edu/community/uva-finance-transformation/blog/2021/06/01/customer-confirmation-session-june-2021-materials
FST: More than just a tech implementation
Although Workday Financials
and Adaptive Planning are obviously huge pieces of the project, FST
is also an effort of ongoing and continuous improvement. As we implement these technologies, we’re trying to improve processes, too.
Check out part two of a three-part series in the UVAFinance blog that
shares some of the other transformations that are happening in FST. It’s always good to see the changes being
made to improve how we do finance at UVA – good ideas from good people, lots of
collaboration, thinking outside the box.
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