FST Update October 14, 2021

 

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Foundation Data Model (FDM)

Pods of schools and units continue to meet on a regular basis, between once a week to a few times per month, working on mapping their PTAO values to the FDM. So far, fourteen schools or units have already submitted mapping files for review, and the FDM team has provided clarity to those working groups on how to use the project, program, and activity worktags, as well as the faculty-start up structure. Read more on the blog.

End-to-End Testing

The project entered the End-to-End testing phase in October, and the testing phase will stretch on into March of next year. The aim of the testing process is to confirm that our tenant of Workday Financials is functioning as we designed it in cooperation with stakeholders, during our two rounds of Configuration and Prototype. The team is looking for any and all bugs in the system so that they can solve any problems before go live.  Check out the Testing Tracker on the blog.

Progress toward Adaptive 3.0

This week, the Adaptive team met with the stakeholders who worked with them all this spring on budget process redesign and showed the group the improvements they’ve made to Adaptive based on their feedback. The team showed new compensation input sheets based on employee type, the addition of payroll costing and FTE columns, HCM Reference data, and the addition of Position ID. They’ll have an additional session soon to illustrate other improvements.  Get the details on the blog.

Business Analysts Join FST Team

Four new business analysts joined the change management team this Monday: Iteari Perry, Detria Thomas, Derrick Carter, and Riley Carper. They'll be working with our trainers to keep a careful watch on functional areas within end-to-end testing to make sure all business processes are adequately tested, that process flows are created and validated, and to work toward the creation of and review of training materials.  Read more about our new team members.

Enhanced RAPID Decision Documentation

We’ve always had the Decision Log on the FST portion of the UVAFinance website, but we’ve done a deeper dive in the online community – we’ve established a landing page related to FST RAPID decisions, including explanations of the RAPID decision-making process and documentation for major decisions.