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During September, UT Works Trainers taught 22 classes focused on Supervisors and Warehouse Managers, Capital Planning and Project Management (CPPM) Project Managers, Asset Managers, and Central Warehouse personnel.  Some of these courses will continue through October with other training courses including Technician, Asset Manager, CPPM Inspector, CPPM Accounting, and Custodial beginning in October and continuing through go0live.

UT Works training officially begins on Tuesday, September 3, and will continue through October, with over 900 employees receiving training before Go-Live. Each business unit involved in UT Works will handle registration for their employees, following their internal processes. The registration plan helps ensure that every employee gets registered for the course(s) they need while also ensuring that units will still be able to provide services to campus consistently during the training period.

To prepare for the transition to UT Works, the UT Works Program and business units are preparing to train over 900 employees through over 100 training sessions from September through October and beyond. The training sessions will provide those who will use UT Works with the tools and skills needed to successfully transition to the new system while also providing the information they will need to feel supported during Hypercare after Go-live.

A key contributor to End-to-End (E2E) testing success is the collection of user stories created with input from business units involved in UT Works testing. User Stories, which are comprehensive real-world scenarios, allow testers to use the system the same way their co-workers will use UT Works after go-live. Being able to evaluate how UT Works will perform in “on-the-job” situations is key to the successful adoption of the system. Using real-world scenarios means that some user stories are very specific and recognizable.

Mapping and assigning security roles play an important part in the planning process for UT Works as we move towards training future users in the Fall.

Over the past ten weeks, the Unit Testing of UT Works modules achieved an important milestone by ensuring all the parts of the Operations & Maintenance (O&M), Capital Planning and Project Management (CPPM), Go Mobile modules, and their related components perform as expected before End-to-End (E2E) testing can begin. The inclusion of teams from each involved in the UT Works Program was critical in completing testing. These participants completed over 70 different test scenarios during the unit testing period, providing valuable feedback to the implementation team.