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HR-Payroll report: Feb. 17, 2000
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Anderson)
Wed Feb 16 10:41:32 2000
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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 10:37:30 -0500
To: magellan@mit.edu, hr-payroll@mit.edu, jlmorgan@mit.edu, pabrady@mit.edu,
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From: Greg Anderson <ganderso@MIT.EDU>
Project Name: HR-Payroll
Project Leader: Dan Fitzgerald
Report Date Feb. 17, 2000
Submitted by: Greg Anderson
URL: http://web.mit.edu/is/discovery/hrpay/
Accomplishments past period:
- Continued Final report editing with Team; completed team review.
- Dan and Greg met with Jim Bruce and Chuck Shaw to begin work on a
consolidated calendar that includes the timeline for HR-Payroll
- Met with ASPCC on Feb. 16 to discuss the business case, project
structure, communications plan, and to introduce the topic for a
consolidated timeline.
- Met with the Asst. Deans on Feb. 9 for an update session
- Dan and Greg met with Bob McKersie, Ed Schein, and Margaret-Ann Gray
(Performance Consulting and Training) to talk further about the change and
organizational components of this project.
- Team members met on Monday with staff from HR & Benefits to talk about
the project.
- Dan began working as member of SAP core planning team
Goals for the coming period:
- Complete final report
- Discuss final report with sponsors
- Continue to work on a consolidated calendar for SAP HR-Payroll with FSS.
- Continue to work with sponsors and others to estimate resources and
project structure
- Meet with Bob McKersie, Ed Schein and Margaret-Ann Gray on change and
organizational issues.
- Prepare for launch of delivery projects
Issues:
- Bringing together the report from a wealth of information requires a
careful balance of concision and detail.
Key learnings
- Collectively, the team will own the content and spirit of the report.
- Customers, as represented by the AAC, are ready to work on business
policies and practices; they agree that addressing these business
activities up front and early in the project is a key opportunity to
question and improve work processes
- Keeping all of the components of the work in synch is intensive.
Team dynamics:
- The team is ready to complete its work and begin the implementation efforts.
Additional comments:
- None
