Your Workday PM. On your side of the table.
A Workday-experienced Project Manager embedded in your programme on the client side. Runs your plan. Tracks your commitments. Keeps the SI accountable to the SOW. Makes your internal teams accountable to the dates they signed up for.
We know Workday's delivery methodologies (Launch, Flex, and Your Way) and exactly where each one creates risk for the client side.
Scope it how you need it. Part-time for smaller programmes. Full-time for complex ones. A dedicated PMO team for multi-track enterprise rollouts.
A Workday PM is not a generic PM with Workday on the CV.
A capable generic PM will build a detailed plan and track status. If they do not understand Workday's configuration sequence, testing dependencies, and cutover failure points, the plan falls apart three months in. By then you have lost weeks and budget.
Runs the plan they are given.
- Accepts the SI's timeline at face value
- Cannot challenge scope on configuration-specific grounds
- Learns Workday vocabulary on the job, slowly
- Discovers testing complexity in the middle of testing
- Cannot spot a change order that should not exist
Makes the plan accountable.
- Challenges the SI's timeline against past Workday delivery data
- Knows where scope belongs to design phase versus build
- Workday-fluent from day one, no ramp-up cost to you
- Anticipates testing complexity before build freezes
- Recognises a deferred-decision change order on sight
Four things. All four, every week.
Plan and progress.
The integrated master plan, your plan, not just the SI's. Dependencies mapped across SI, internal teams, third-party integrations, data migration. Progress tracked weekly against original baseline and current forecast. Slippage surfaced while it is still recoverable.
SI governance and change control.
SI weekly performance review against the SOW. Change order triage: is this new scope or deferred work? Change control board preparation. RAID log discipline. Decisions documented with named owners and dated rationale, not left to steering committee minutes.
Internal delivery.
Business-side workstream tracking. Testing participation. Data sign-off. Training readiness. Change readiness. The client-side slips that quietly derail programmes, named and escalated in real time, not discovered at go-live.
Stakeholder reporting.
Sponsor brief weekly, signed off. Steering pack monthly, with honest RAG. Board updates quarterly. One source of truth, updated on a schedule, read by everyone who needs it. No parallel slide decks with different numbers.
Four tiers. Small programme to enterprise PMO.
The Workday PM service scales with the programme. Part-time for smaller or phase-specific work. Full-time for complex programmes. PM-plus-analyst for multi-workstream delivery. A full PMO-as-a-Service for enterprise multi-track rollouts.
Part-time
Full-time
PM + Analyst
PMO-as-a-Service
Different problems. Different answers.
- You have senior leadership but no dedicated PM capacity
- Your SOW is sound but day-to-day execution needs an owner
- Your internal PMO lacks Workday-specific experience
- Programme needs continuous tracking week to week
- Budget is already committed, you need to protect it
- The gap is governance, not delivery tracking
- You need someone accountable for the outcome, not the plan
- Sponsor, SI, and PMO need structural alignment
- Programme has drifted and needs a reset
- Decisions in steering are deferred, not made
Ready for a Workday PM who belongs to you?
Thirty minutes with a senior practitioner. You describe the programme. We tell you whether a Workday PM, COMPaaS, or neither is the right call. Scoped quote within three working days.
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