Driving your project from the business side - not just the project management side.
Standard Business Project Management (AMOA) knows how to run a project: workshops, steering committees, schedules, deliverables. But on an HRIS or Payroll project, the complexity is business complexity before it is project complexity. A Business Project Manager who doesn't speak payroll will miss the misconfigured pay element, the unstable accounting interface, the incomplete cutover scenario - all hidden costs that only surface after go-live.
GBA Connect leads the Business Project Management of your HRIS/Payroll/Time & Attendance projects with a dual requirement: methodological expertise and business expertise, regardless of the vendor selected.
Who this offer is for
- You are launching an HRIS, payroll or Time & Attendance overhaul project and need a Business Project Manager capable of challenging the system integrator on substance
- You want to focus on business steering and delegate the operational running of the project
- You already have a project team but need payroll expertise to validate configurations and functional testing
- You want to secure a cutover (go-live) in a high-stakes social or financial environment
What we deliver
- Project scoping: scope, governance, schedule, internal workload, communication plan
- Drafting and arbitration of functional specifications: business rules, edge cases, atypical populations
- Integrator management: commitment tracking, deliverable quality control, change management
- Design and execution of the functional testing strategy: test plan, data sets, business scenarios, user acceptance testing
- Cutover preparation and execution: go-live checklist, rollback plan, monitoring of the first post-go-live payroll runs
- Change management with payroll, HR, manager and employee teams
Client testimonials
"Their combined expertise in payroll and vendor systems made the difference throughout the migration. Discussions with the vendor were smoother, configuration choices were challenged when needed, and business impacts were systematically factored in before any decision was made."
- Payroll Manager, multi-site industrial mid-sized company - assignment carried out by the founding partners prior to the creation of GBA Connect
Success indicators
- Go-live delivered on schedule and within budget
- First post-go-live payroll run with no DSN rejections and no large-scale corrections
- User teams fully operational from day one, without prolonged dependency on the integrator
- Complete functional testing file archived and enforceable against the integrator
Format & duration
A long-term assignment, generally between 6 and 18 months depending on the scale of the project. Time & materials or fixed price per phase (scoping, design, functional testing, cutover).
What we do not do
GBA Connect is not a system integrator and does not perform tool configuration. Our role is to steer, specify, control and test - representing your business interests, which are distinct from those of the integrator.
Further reading
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