Modernization Monday

Monthly update for Workday training 

The WSU community will receive training on how to use Workday starting in October. Due to circumstances surrounding COVID-19, Modernization leadership decided Workday training will be held entirely remotely in the fall. More information on what that will look like will be available soon.

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Wrapping up End-to-End Testing 

End-to-End Testing Nearing Completion End-to-end testing (E2E) began in December. Since then, Modernization Team analysts and guest testers from the WSU community ran about 3,800 testing scenarios.

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Which topics interest you?

The Modernization blog uses certain tags to categorize topics for blog posts. This allows WSU community members to follow what they are interested in. The following are the main tags we use for our posts. 

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Training update

We hear your interest in learning more about Workday training. Starting with this post, we’ll do a training-specific update every month. Catch every blog post about training at modernization.wsu.edu/tag/training.

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Highlighting major changes in your area

The Modernization team is excited to announce a new resource for the University community that will help ease the transition to Workday. Available at the Change Overview webpage here, you can view handouts that highlight the top five main changes happening in areas such as payroll, payables, and grants.

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A bright future for reporting

Washington State University for the past 40 years has used multiple systems, paper forms, and manual processes for essential reporting of financial and human resources data. Starting with Workday, there will be a place for these processes to live without the hassle of switching among several systems. You will be able to create, analyze, and […]

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Reviewing the Project Scope

As the University nears its transition to Workday, it is important to understand what is in the Modernization project’s scope. Today, WSU uses multiple systems to complete the business processes for finance, payroll, human resources, and grant administration.

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A new resource to share Modernization decisions

Modernization Initiative leadership has made multiple decisions for the Modernization project. These decisions will impact the majority of the University community and are available on the Modernization website. Information concerning several of these implementation decisions is listed below. We encourage communication about implementation decisions across different areas. These PowerPoint slides are a great resource to […]

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