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HR-Payroll bi-weekly report, Nov. 3, 1999
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Anderson)
Wed Nov 3 13:54:15 1999
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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 13:52:21 -0500
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 Nov. 3, 1999
Submitted by: Greg Anderson
URL: http://web.mit.edu/is/discovery/hrpay/
Accomplishments past period:
- Continued risk analysis effort
- Team members met with SAP at Palo Alto, CA.; focus on Payroll
- Team members attended ASUG HR meeting in Denver, CO
- Began preparations for Nov. 10 ASPCC meeting
- Met with Sponsors for update
- Met with Janet Snover and Jim Bruce
- Developed analysis and summary of TAP (The Appointment Process) project
- Began to identify project dependencies and calendar issues; i.e. how
HR-Payroll fits with SAP 4.6b.
- Established contact with Baylor Medical another SAP user
Goals for the coming period:
- Meet with ASPCC
- Complete risk analysis work
- Continue work to understand calendar and dependencies
- Determine the next steps for the project
Issues:
- Building agreements across central and departmental units
- 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
- 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:
- Need to focus more on getting everyone on the same page
Additional comments:
- None
