Putting Config & Prototype in the Rearview Mirror

The climb is steep but we've got this!

The beginning of September starts a new and exciting phase of Finance Strategic Transformation:  Testing!  

Read more about testing here.

But before we begin testing, we will bid adieu to the Configure & Prototype phase.  In this phase, the team built two tenants of Workday Financials and revised each of those based on the feedback provided by you, our stakeholders, in two rounds of Customer Confirmation Sessions.  

As we exit Config & Prototype, a phase we've been in for a year, it's good to take a few moments to look back at all we've accomplished together: 

• Customer Confirmation Sessions:  we conducted prototype walkthrough review sessions and gathered feedback.
• End-User Training Plan:  We created a training strategy that will describe our approach to training, including documentation of roles and responsibilities and the data needed to train end-users.
•  Change Readiness Assessment #2:  We gauged stakeholders' perceptions of the implementation and readiness to move forward.
• System Remediation Plan:  A plan was put in place for critical systems and their impact on testing.
  

In the remaining time period before testing begins, the team will have a few C&P chores to complete: 

• User story sprints:  conducting user story review and identifying completed user stories to be used in test prep activities.
• Report building and unit testing:  Completing development and developer unit-testing of priority one reports
• Integrations build and unit test:  building and testing all cycle 1,2, and 3 integrations
• Test Preparation: creating test scenarios to support the testing cycles. 
• End-to-end tenant build:  Finishing up the prototype tenant built upon feedback and issues resolved from the configuration tenant build prototype.
• Delivery Assurance Checkpoints:  submit required reviews for the C&P stage.
• Decisions:  Closing out tier 1 and tier 2 decisions that need to be finalized before testing. 

The FST Team gives a big THANK YOU to everyone in the schools and units who have worked right beside us through Config & Prototype.  We look forward to entering this new phase with you and getting one step closer to go live in July of 2022!

Onward and upward!