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HR-Payroll project bi-weekly update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Anderson)
Wed Oct 20 09:51:04 1999
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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 09:44:43 -0400
To: magellan@MIT.EDU, hr-payroll@MIT.EDU, jlmorgan@MIT.EDU, mlhoward@MIT.EDU,
"Avakian, Laura" <lavakian@MIT.EDU>
From: Greg Anderson <ganderso@MIT.EDU>
Project Name: HR-Payroll
Project Leaders: Dan Fitzgerald, Greg Anderson
Report Date Oct. 20, 1999
Submitted by: Greg Anderson
URL: http://web.mit.edu/is/discovery/hrpay/
Accomplishments past period:
- Met with Laura Avakian, VP for Human Resources
- Met with Robin Elices, Director Administrative Services Organization
- Met with Doreen Morris
- Met with John Curry
- Provided brief update to ASPCC
- Began risk analysis effort
- Completed team cross-education effort
- Drafted outreach plan for the AO community
- Drafted change to charter, reflecting decision for SAP as HR-Payroll system
- Began to gather issues
- Completed system schematic
Goals for the coming period:
- Meet with Sponsors
- Begin involvement with the AO community
- Increase interactions with SAP - Payroll meeting in Ca.
- Determine approach for User Group meeting in Denver, Nov. 3
- Continue conversations with Duke and others
- Define, refine, and chart requirements and objectives
- Plan for Nov. 10 meeting with ASPCC
Issues:
- Increasing intensity for the work
- Need to insure broad participation and buy-in to the work from the
various customer groups across campus
- Be clear about decision for SAP and work with community to provide
support and assurances.
- Refining timeline will become increasingly important; how is the timing
for HR-Payroll impacted by other activities; i.e. SAP updgrades.
- When is Discovery portion of the work at an end.
Key learnings
- Good team, complex topic, there's a lot to learn
- The Sponsors efforts on behalf of the project are critically important.
- There is a lot of intensity & sensitivity around this project
- Managing the change issues and the perspectives of central and
decentralized stakeholders will be critical to success.
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
