PeopleSoft Financials 8.8 Upgrade Project

Upgrade Status (as of April 2005)

As the efforts originally got underway to upgrade the PeopleSoft Financials 7.5 application to Version 8.8, the team developed a basic project plan and timeline. This was based on a standard project plan used by our consulting firm for upgrades and incorporated the best estimates of time and effort from the entire team. The result was a tentative go-live target of May 1, 2005.

The PeopleSoft Financials team leadership met on 3/14/05 to assess and re-evaluate the feasibility of the May 1st go-live date. The remaining body of work was confirmed and the various resource dependencies were identified. Both the functional and technical teams developed and updated their estimates of time and effort needed to complete the work identified.

The PeopleSoft team leadership met again on 3/15/05 to review the revised team estimates. At that time, the team was soon to be initiating the major system testing phase; testing on a fully upgraded and patched Version 8.8 database that includes all of the modifications that are being carried forward from 7.5. The updated estimates for completing this testing and the other work necessary to complete the upgrade showed that we would be pushing the go-live date late into May or early June of 2005. A go-live date this close to the end of the fiscal year was judged to be unwise.

On 3/16/05 the PeopleSoft Financials team leadership recommended to the PeopleSoft Executive Steering Committee that the planned go-live be delayed until after the end of FY 2005. Specific planning will have to occur to establish a new go-live date that takes into account the team resources that have end of FY responsibilities. A report on that planning effort will be made at a subsequent Executive Steering Committee meeting. The PeopleSoft Steering Committee agreed with the recommendation and continued to pledge their support to the effort.

The recommendation to delay the go-live included the recommendation that the efforts on the upgrade would not abate until team members are pulled away to complete critical end of FY activities. This was intended to insure that as much progress as possible will be made on the upgrade and reduce the work that will remain after the FY end activities are completed. Therefore, the commitments of the various team members to this enterprise-wide project will continue until the conclusion of the project.

We will let you know as the revised go-live date is identified and transition processes for that date are completed. The current schedule for training will be revised giving consideration to the newly established plan for going live. The new training schedule will be forthcoming as it is developed. We appreciate your on-going support and assistance and if you have any questions please don't hesitate to discuss them with us.

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