Tips for Month End
As we’ve discussed here before, in KFS, month end is month end, even if it occurs on a Saturday or Sunday! When a month ends on a weekend, we will make every effort to keep the system available. Please note, however, that the KFS Help Desk operates from 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM, Monday – [...]
“How ya doin’?”
As the project manager for the KFS at Cornell implementation, people curious about the project often stop me while I’m visiting offices around campus. Inevitably, I’m asked a variation of the question, “Sooo, how’s the project going? Are you really going to make the date of July 1, 2011?” As we wind down 2010, I’d [...]
KFS Information Delivery & Reporting Dec. Update
The KFS Information Delivery & Reporting (ID&R) team has identified what will be delivered by July 1 and September 1, 2011, through KFS dashboards and KFS application inquiry screens. We have shared these with various stakeholder groups and at campus meetings in October and November, and you can read about the details of these deliverables [...]
The IT Benefits of Partnership
Nearly every aspect of technical work for the KFS Implementation Project is benefiting from our partnership with other higher education institutions that have implemented KFS or are working toward it. Sure, it’s well known by now that KFS was “built by higher ed, for higher ed,” and that KFS is a great fit for Cornell [...]
Testing…Testing…1-2-3
The KFS Quality Assurance (QA) team is working with the module teams—the leads, business analysts, technical implementation analysts, and subject matter experts—to create and finalize module test plans and test individual modules. This will keep us busy through February 2011. As we begin, we’re using existing functional and technical information to identify scenarios for testing [...]
Update: KFS Information Delivery & Reporting
The ID&R team was busy in July and August sprinting through the gathering of business critical financial information requirements with KFS module leads and campus focus groups. Fifteen requirements gathering sessions were held with 128 attendees. The outcome of the sessions is a Financial Information Business Critical Needs Inventory available on our project site (requires [...]
Chart of Accounts Validation Update
Since we began the most recent wave of validating the KFS chart of accounts—using Cornell monthly balances—we’ve heard some positive feedback from many of the units, and dealt with a few issues, too. The biggest problem we encountered is that accounts created since the mapping was first submitted appear to be unassigned. We’re working with [...]
What’s in a name?
Shakespeare said a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. But there are words and terms used in KFS you’ll want to get acquainted with, since a few familiar terms have a new aroma about them, and some are altogether fresh. Click on over to the KFS Glossary to see what we mean. [...]
We need Cornell data!
In my last blog post I discussed the work of the KFS Interfaces team. This time around, I’d like to highlight the critical work of the Data Conversion team. If you look at the data in the KFS Test Drive, which is what the system is delivered with out of the box, you’ll see it [...]
Working in KFS to validate the new chart of accounts
Work on the new chart of accounts is miles ahead of where we were when I first introduced orgs here back in April, and we’re striking out into the next big phase. Soon we’ll start the work of validating orgs and accounts using an early version of KFS called the pre-production instance (PPI), comparing the [...]
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