Project Right Readiness

You have selected Workday to be your Human Resource Information System (HRIS) and are ready to start your transformation journey.

As a Programme Manager/Director, you aim to deliver within time, within budget and within scope.

 

SO HOW DO I PREPARE?

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Every phase of the project has its own complexities and challenges. Often, it is the client's lack of proper preparation and inability to deliver forward-thinking project deliverables that makes (at least) one of the three Project Management aims creep, or the project will come with a lot of frustration and lower the go-live success rate.

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PLAN: 

• Implementation strategy - country roll out / module roll out / big bang

• Success criteria & benefits tracker - base point is PID

• Decision structure - ownership and escalation points

ARCHITECT:

• Statement Of Work - clear and complete

• Resources - GPOs / Integration Owner / project team

• Functional design - challenge the status quo

• Reporting - management, statutory and regulatory reports

• Data gathering - historical data / purging strategy / ongoing recruitment data

• Integration design - deprecation plan / middleware

TEST:

• Strategy - "all things normal"

• Exit criteria - how much testing is enough?

DEPLOY:

• Cutover plan - soft go-live & hard go-live

• Data freeze strategy - acceptable downtime

• Post go-live support model - who? how? when?

 

If this sounds familiar to you, get in touch with me and find out what you can do as a customer to be Right Ready.