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HR-Payroll project update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Anderson)
Wed Sep 22 13:59:21 1999
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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 13:52:55 -0400
To: magellan@mit.edu, hr-payroll@mit.edu, jlmorgan@mit.edu, mlhoward@mit.edu,
ppage@mit.edu, cashaw@mit.edu
From: Greg Anderson <ganderso@MIT.EDU>
Project Name: HR-Payroll
Project Leaders: Dan Fitzgerald, Greg Anderson
Report Date Sept. 22, 1999
Submitted by: Greg Anderson
URL: http://web.mit.edu/is/discovery/hrpay/
Accomplishments past period:
- Continued review of business functions within HR-Payroll
- Continued to understand business requirements
- Met with Doreen Morris and Asst. Deans
- Met with AAC
- Began work on system schematics to understand current environment
- Began data modelling and process flow
- Refined work structures & assignments
- Continued conversations with Duke
- Established contact with SAP expert
- Scheduled meeting with John Curry, Exec. VP
- Scheduled meeting with Laura Avakian, VP-HR
- Began risk analysis
Goals for the coming period
- Meet with John Curry and Laura Avakian
- Involve the AO community
- Hold demos for Payroll and Personnel
- Schedule SAP demos
- Continue conversations with Duke and others
- Define, refine, and chart requirements and objectives
Issues:
- Increasing intensity for the work
- Need to insure fit between MIT strategic goals and the work of the team
- Need to insure broad participation and buy-in to the work from the
various customer groups across campus
Key learnings
- Good team, complex topic, there's a lot to learn
- The discussions are rich and critical to moving the work forward.
- The Sponsors efforts on behalf of the project are critically important.
Team dynamics:
- Solid, focused team, great knowledge base for the work.
- Shifting from listening and learning to active use of the information and
beginning analysis.
Additional comments:
- None
