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Quiet Friday, Catching Up

August 8, 2014

Very quiet in the office today.  But it has been an incredibly crazy and busy week, so everyone needs the time to catch up.  As promised yesterday, here is a photo of a campus user (Collette Wilshire from the College … Read more

Rehearsing Year-End Close and Report Testing

August 7, 2014

Big day for the project team today.  The Finance team is rehearsing year-end close in the ConnectCarolina system.  Last week, the team practiced a monthly closing.  Each rehearsal helps build confidence that ConnectCarolina is ready for the Oct. 1 go-live. … Read more

Newsletter Day!

August 6, 2014

The latest newsletter is about to be sent, as we go to a weekly schedule.  Today’s lead article is on training, which has begun in earnest this week.  Sign up for the newsletter here:  https://ccinfo.unc.edu/news/newsletter-sign-up/  It is the best way … Read more

Setting Priorities

August 5, 2014

Been going to the daily meetings on outstanding issues (we call them “bugs”) that remain in ConnectCarolina for Finance and HR/Payroll.  Each bug gets a priority designation.  P1 are the most urgent bugs and our goal is to resolve them … Read more

The Focus for the Last Two Months

August 4, 2014

Team meeting today to help focus the team for the final two months (well, actually, 57 days) to the Oct. 1 Go-Live.  Closing issues found in testing is a major focus as well as documenting business processes.  We are also … Read more

Practice, Practice, Practice

July 31, 2014

(The answer to an old joke.)  This afternoon, we’re practicing month-end close.  This is a process that most finance people are familiar with.  We’re doing it in ConnectCarolina as one of many, many activities that we make sure work before … Read more

Get Yer Newsletter Right Here!

July 30, 2014

The latest ConnectCarolina newsletter is out!  Are you signed up?  If not, you can do it in a quick minute here: https://ccinfo.unc.edu/news/newsletter-sign-up/

‘Down to the Penny’

July 29, 2014

One thing that is going to matter to everyone come the October go-live of ConnectCarolina is the accuracy of paychecks. There has been a lot of testing — we call it Payroll Parallel Testing — involving the project team and … Read more

Oh the People You’ll Meet!

July 28, 2014

Running into people from Accounting Services on a daily basis here at ITS-Manning.  They’re coming in to process transactions entered by the campus users involved in User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Business process owners are here, too, as the project team … Read more

A Constant Reminder

July 25, 2014

Our digital signage is a continual reminder of what we are working on and that go-live is just around the corner!  We have three monitors in ITS-Manning where the team can see priorities, the countdown and other project info.