EmpowHR 9.0 UpgradeStatus Meeting
Thursday, June 12, 20088:30 A.M. – 4:00 P.M. (EDT)
Meeting Agenda
• Welcome/Introductions
• Oracle Assessment
• 9.0 Upgrade Project Status
• Project Schedule Changes
• 9.0 Testing Approach– Quality Assurance Testing (QAT)
– User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Training Update/UPK Initiatives
• Overall Timeline
• Data Warehouse Project
• What’s Next?
• Questions
Oracle AssessmentBrenda Mandella
Billy Dantagnan
Oracle Assessment
• Assessment Completed
• Executive Summary Distributed
• Findings highlighted three focus areas
– Customer Satisfaction
– Technical Challenges
– Reporting
Oracle Assessment
• Improve Customer Satisfaction
– Create Governance Board
– Configuration Control Board established
– User group established
– Release planning
– Assist in change management
– Create ‘Tiger’ teams to evaluate projects
– Provide PeopleSoft functionality demonstrations
– Establish improved performance measures
Oracle Assessment
• Technical Challenges
– Maintain existing 8.8 functionality
– Component Interface
– PeopleSoft delivered PPS interface
– Person Model
– Replace custom code
– Maintenance packs
• Consulted with Oracle
• Apply individual maintenance packs
• Strategy for maintenance packs
Oracle Assessment
• Reporting– Requirement for enhanced reporting – Ability to report EmpowHR and Payroll
Personnel System data– Establish “Tiger” team to identify requirements – Decision to purchase HCM Warehouse
EmpowHR 9.0 Upgrade Project StatusBrenda Mandella
EmpowHR 9.0 Upgrade Project Status
8.8 Support - Through September 2008• Continue supporting all high-level IRs
• Deploy data synchronization fixes piloted by DHS to all customers
• Expand data synchronization project to additional data areas
• Support USDA NEIS efforts
• Migrate FSIS
• Migrate USDA OCFO HDQ
EmpowHR 9.0 Upgrade Project Status
9.0 Upgrade - By the end of September 2008
• Use 8.8 push views
• Use data component of Person Model for employees only
• Support conversion of customer queries
• Complete DHS Enterprise Requirements I
• ePerformance pilot with LoC
Project Schedule ChangesBilly Dantagnan
9.0 Project Schedule Changes
• Revised Implementation Date– September 22, 2008
(Processing for Pay Period 19)
• Quality Assurance Test (QAT) Window– July 14, 2008 – August 8, 2008 (4 Weeks)
• User Acceptance Test (UAT) Window– August 11, 2008 – September 5, 2008 (4 Weeks)
9.0 Testing ApproachJane Ladner
Chris Elwood
Billy Dantagnan
Quality Assurance Testing (QAT) – Status To Date
• Functions Tested– Portal– HR Setup– Position Management– Security– Payroll Documents HR– Reports
Quality Assurance Testing – Status To Date
• Test Scripts– Executed - 334– Total Created - 532
• Defect Problem Reports (DPRs)– Closed - 56– Post 9.0 - 13– Open - 13– Total - 82
Quality Assurance Testing – DPR Process
Defect Problem Report (DPR) Process Flow
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Completed and Migrated
QA Team notified of FP migration
Test Scripts developed and
checked
Test Scripts performed in QA
environments
Defect Problem Report Identified
DPR Validated and all DPR information
consolidated
DPR review for completeness, complexity and
criticality
Minor issue fix completed and
migrated
Estimate Major issue Level of Effort (LOE)
Major issue fix completed and
migrated
Notify QA Team FP and DPR is ready for Retest
Retest is conducted
QA Lead plans retest of failed
script
QA Lead Receive expected fix date
Provide QA Lead the estimated
completion date
Test results recorded.
DPR Closed
9.0 Testing Approach – Current Status
• New Test Dates– QAT: July 14, 2008 – August 8, 2008– UAT: August 11, 2008 – September 5, 2008
• New Environment– New data as of June 14, 2008 (Pay Period 11)– New UAT PPS environment: IDMS61,
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Quality Assurance Testing – Status of Remaining Test
• Functions– ESS Tasks, ESS View, MSS Tasks, MSS View,
Labor Relations, Manage Performance (8.8), PAR, History Override, Payroll Processing, Payroll Interface, Mass OIP Update , Recruitment (LOC), Queries, Transit Subsidy, Fill-a-Position/Job Classification, Who Has the PAR, Worklist Admin, ePerformance, System Interfaces
• SCRs scheduled for 9.0– DHS-104, DHS-099, DHS-105, DHS-050a,
DHS-053, DHS-051, DHS-055, DHS-107, 70529a, GAO-033a
• All open IRs
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• UAT Dates: August 11 – September 5• Establish a Command Center for all four weeks
(Location to be determined)• Onsite assistance:
– EmpowHR QA staff– Publications and Communications staff– Human Resources Applications Staff– Help Desk staff – Unisys staff
User Acceptance Testing - DPR Process
UAT DPR Process Flow
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Major issue fix completed and
migrated
Estimate Major issue Level of Effort (LOE)
Provide QA Lead the
estimated completion date
Notify QA Team FP and DPR is
ready for Retest
Minor issue fix completed and
migrated
DPR review for completeness, complexity and
criticality
QA Lead Receive expected fix date
DPR review for completeness, complexity and
criticality
Defect Problem Report identified during UAT test script execution
Retest is conducted
After analysis, Agency Rep contacts QA Test Team
Retest is conducted
DPR Validated and all DPR information
consolidated
Complexity
Successful Test
Close DPR
Training Update/UPK InitiativesTheresa Trentacoste
9.0 Upgrade Training
• Award for Contract Trainers in its final stage.
• Sessions are expected to begin in early August through September 19, 2008.
• Need facilities that are available during August/September timeframe with computers/internet access for 20 students per class.
UPK Status
• Licenses have been purchased for a pilot of UPK.
• UPK developer software being installed at NFC.
• UPK Developer training scheduled for July 2008 at NFC.
• Goal: UPK product for use in conjunction with 9.0 rollout.
Overall TimelineBrenda Mandella
Larry Barreca
Overall Timeline – Post 9.0 Activities
9.0 Release 1 - December 2008
• 9.0 Security deployment
• DHS Enterprise Requirements II
• Additional data synchronization enhancements
• USDA OCIO migration
• FEMA Migration
Reporting and Agency Migrations - February 2009
• HCM Data Warehouse
• GPO Migration
Overall Timeline – Post 9.0 Activities
Future – To be scheduled• CI views
• DHS AWE Basic Pilot
• DHS AWE MSS Pilot
• Enhancement of HCM Warehouse capability
• Expanded deployment of ePerformance
• Tri-Bureau’s migrations
• Talent Acquisition & Candidate Gateway pilot
• Assessment of full Person Model capabilities
• USDA NEIS enhancements
• Future functionality deployment plan
• Expanded Deployment of AWE
• Customization Baseline
• Monster interface
• USDA Migrations
EmpowHR Timeline
12/08
PP 24
PP25
PP19
PP 21
PP23
PP 18
PP 20
PP 22
PP 07
PP 20
PP 10
PP 07
PP17
PP 08
PP 13
PP 12
PP 11
PP 09
PP 16
PP 13
PP 14
PP 12
PP 09
PP 10
PP 08
PP 15
PP 11
PP 14
PP 19
PP 18
PP 17
PP 16
PP 15
PP 03
PP 02
PP01
PP 26
PP 25
PP 24
PP 23
PP 22
PP 21
PP 06
PP 05
PP 04
USDA National Finance CenterEmpowHR Timeline 06/06/2008
Pay Period Year 2007 Pay Period Year 2008
Plan and Initiate Project
Communications
Project Management and Governance
Fit-Gap Sessions
Functional Design
Technical Design
Development
Integration Testing
Upgrade Dry Runs
Certification and Accreditation
Go/No Go
04/07 05/07 06/07 08/0707/07 09/07 10/07 11/07 12/07 01/08 02/08 03/08 04/08 05/08 06/08 07/08 08/08
Go LiveSeptember 22
QA Testing Schedule
07/14 – 08/08HR Setup, Jobcodes, Portal, Position Management, Security,Payroll Documents-HR, Reports, PAR, History Overide, Payroll Interface, Fill-a-Position, Job Classification, ESS, MSS, CRM, Queries, Who Has the PAR, Worklist Admin, Training Data Migration (USDA), Recruitment (LOC), Manage Performance, Transit Subsidy, Labor Relations, Payroll Documents-ESS, AWE, DHS Enterprise Requirements, System Interfaces
UA Testing Schedule
08/11 – 09/05HR Setup, Jobcodes, Portal, Position Management, Security,Payroll Documents-HR, Reports, PAR, History Overide, Payroll Interface, Fill-a-Position, Job Classification, ESS, MSS, CRM, Queries, Who Has the PAR, Worklist Admin, Training Data Migration (USDA), Recruitment (LOC), Manage Performance, Transit Subsidy, Labor Relations, Payroll Documents-ESS, AWE, DHS Enterprise Requirements, System Interfaces
Training
Needs AssessmentConduct Sessions
Oracle Assessment
FEMA Implementation
FSIS Implementation
PP11 Test Data
Dev. UAT Scripts
Dev. QAT Scripts
NFC Implementation
CNCS Implementation
GPO Implementation - PP03
HCM Data Warehouse Project – February, 2009
QAT
UAT
PPS Database Change
FLETC Implementation
November Release – EmpowHR 9.0 r1PeopleSoft v9.0 Security
PeopleSoft Maintenance PackSCR’s
Reconciliation Project
Monster Interface Project
11/0810/0809/08
Data Dictionary Project
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Activities
Data Warehouse ProjectLarry Barreca
Data Warehouse Project
• Purchased PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), HCM Data Warehouse, and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) Software License
• Contracted with Oracle Consulting Services for Implementation
• Kick-off meeting next Wednesday, June 18, 2008
• Train Technical Staff (DBAs and Developers)
• Ready for Testing in October
• Ready for Production in February
• Initial Implementation will have Out-of-the-Box functionality
• Next Phase will include necessary customization from EmpowHR
What’s Next?Billy Dantagnan
Questions?