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Just a reminder:  until further notice, UVA is requiring masks to be worn indoors regardless of vaccination status.  Thanks for doing your part to protect us all!See the full story on UVAToday.

Lately, we've been talking about the start of the Testing Phase of Finance Strategic Transformation.  For reference, see the following posts: Introduction of Sunil Sah, FST Testing LeadGetting Everything Just Right:  FST TestingIf you'd like to hear more about the testing phase, Sunil Sah visited the August 4 Fiscal Administrators' meeting and gave an update that you might find interesting.  In this update, he goes into more detail on the plan.  Check out the recording a

 Sprint Discussions/CasteFor the summer (and into early fall), we are using our UVAFinance Sprint Discussions (held bi-weekly on Thursdays, starting at 4:30) to do a deep discussion of the book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson.Last week, we started discussing Part Three: The Eight Pillars of Caste. This is difficult content and created a lot of discussion so we decided to extend our discussion of Part Three to the discussion on August 12 and adjust the rest of the s

To supplement the monthly Finance transformation Systems Remediation Network (SRN) meetings, subgroups have been formed and many are now actively meeting. Three out of the five planned groups relating to integrations have begun meeting, with two additional to be initiated in the next couple of weeks. Student Information System (SIS) and Operational Data Store (ODS) remediation subgroups are meeting, as well as those for UVA Wise and the Medical Center.The groups generally review how pa

The Finance Engagement Team has been working hard to get the first phase of our agile rollout of the new UVAFinance website up and ready to roll.  We're happy to report that on Monday, August 16, the first iteration of the site will be live at https://uvafinance.virginia.edu/https://uvafinance.virginia.edu/You can click here to visit the new site: https://uvafinance.virginia.edu/The first areas to go live on the new site include Finance Outreach & Compliance F

It’s a question that comes up frequently as we move toward go-live in July of 2022: Will we have a practice tenant of Workday to learn in?The possibility of a practice tenant, or “sandbox” as many call it, has been a subject of much interest since the beginning of Finance Strategic Transformation. It’s an attractive idea: people want access to a practice environment so they can get into the system and see how things work. They want to see their data in the system and get an idea of how they will

Want to listen to this update instead of reading it? Click here to tune into the WFST Broadcast!No time to read paragraphs?  Check out "Five Things to Know about WFST"Project Timeline Finance Strategic Transformation is nearing the end of the configure and prototype phase.  We’re closing out a number of activities and getting ready to move forward with the testing phase.  The key activity our team is focused on at this moment is getting the next tenant of Workday Fi

1.  Next week, mapping leads from each school and unit will take part in a kickoff event with the FST team to get the FDM Mapping work underway.  Read more about the start of mapping.2.  As we work toward go-live, FDM activities will have a time of both frost and freeze:  frost is when changes to FDM values slow down, and freeze is a time period where no more changes can be made because the data will be being loaded into the UVA  tenant of Workday Financials.  Read

If you've been in a meeting with discussion of Foundation Data Model (FDM) timelines, you've probably heard the terms frost and freeze mentioned. They are part of the progression of activities taking place as we near the Workday Financials go-live date of July 1, 2022. So what do they mean and how do they differ?FrostWhen we frost mapping activities, the velocity of change really slows down. People will be getting committed to their FDM values and starting to do their conversions. So at tha

The FST team is currently working on the creation of the End-to-End (E2E) tenant of Workday Financials that will be used for testing. The E2E tenant will incorporate changes based on insights gained from the second round Customer Confirmation Sessions and other work in the configuration tenant. End-to-end testing officially kicks off on Sept. 1, 2021, and continues through Jan. 14, 2022, with a contingency period (in case more time is needed) from Jan. 17-Jan. 31, 2022. The hands-on po

The Caste book discussion originally scheduled for Thursday, July 29, will be held on August 5, 4:30-5:30. We will be discussing Part Three: The Eight Pillars of Caste. Check out the VP Finance DEI Resources page for a listing of chapters included and detailed discussion questions.We have also posted a  “Mixtape” of resources compiled by ToShun Campbell. These resources provide additional content to accompany the book, many of which we’ve talked about in our discussions. We will b

UVA recently announced its new mobile safety app, Guardian, which will replace LiveSafe after July 30, 2021.Students, faculty, and staff can use Guardian to:immediately locate and contact safety resources on and off Groundsclick on UVA’s online reporting system, Just Report Ittext concerns and tips to UVA Police, even anonymouslyreceive urgent notifications based on their geographic location invite friends to join a virtual walk, and moreOther ways to stay engaged with safety at UVA:Receive UVA

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Want to listen to this update instead of reading it?  Tune into this week's WFST Radio Broadcast! The Functional Team are creating configuration workbooks and user stories to support the development of the initial UVA Workday Financials tenant for the Configure and Prototype stage, which begins in November and runs roughly through March of 2021.