Implementing Global HR: From Enterprise Model to Live Workforce · Module 0 · Orientation
The HCM implementation lifecycle
Lesson 3 of 175 · 9 min
This lesson is a map. By the end of it you should be able to place any module in this course on a real project timeline. The phases: discovery, design, configure, data migration, test cycles, parallel run, training, cutover, hypercare. Discovery is where you find out what the organisation actually does — not what the org chart says. Design is where the modules with permanent decisions live. Configure is most of this course by page count and honestly the least risky phase, because a configuration mistake caught in configuration is just a Tuesday. Data migration is always bigger than the plan says. Overlay the course and look at the shape: the design modules are a small part of the course and a large part of the risk. That asymmetry is the single most useful thing on the diagram. Four things make HCM projects different from finance projects, and they catch…
The full lesson is part of the course
The video, the complete written lesson and the module quiz are included in Implementing Global HR: From Enterprise Model to Live Workforce, with a certificate on completion and a fourteen-day refund window.
In this module: Module 0 · Orientation
- 1How this course works
- 2Getting an environment
- 3The HCM implementation lifecycle
- 4Your setup checklist