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CIO: Workday end‑to‑end testing underway; payroll parallel testing next step toward Dec. 1 go‑live target
Summary
Lake County CIO Chris Blanding said Workday end‑to‑end testing has run for five weeks and is ending. The next steps include payroll tenant build and payroll parallel testing. The integrator will address software bugs found during testing; the project status was described as yellow.
Chris Blanding, Lake County chief information officer, told the Technology Committee on Aug. 29 that the county’s Workday enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation has completed five weeks of end‑to‑end testing and is moving into payroll‑focused workstreams.
"Most notably end to end testing. So this has been going on for five weeks, and it's ending this week," Blanding said. He described the testing as a necessary step for county leads to see complete workflows and to find defects that must be fixed by the system implementer. Blanding said "there's over 70 plus people on the Lake County side that have done a ton of testing" and that defects identified during end‑to‑end tests will be sent to the vendor integrator for remediation and retesting.
Blanding said the next technical phase is a payroll tenant build followed by payroll parallel testing: the new payroll environment will run alongside the county’s current payroll system to verify results before cutover. He stressed that payroll accuracy is a central priority and that parallel testing is intended to reduce the risk of pay errors at go‑live.
Committee members asked whether the schedule remains on track for the planned Dec. 1 go‑live. Blanding said the project follows Workday’s recommended rollout process, that the integrator and county staff are addressing bugs, and that the project status is currently "yellow." He said buffer time is built into the plan to address high‑severity issues and that the county is preparing cutover and change‑management activities, including training for staff ahead of launch.
No formal action was taken; the item was an informational update. Blanding said staff will continue to report progress and that the county will move to dedicated payroll parallel testing next, with subsequent cutover planning and hypercare (post‑launch support) to follow.
