The Workday Guides
Five one-page guides covering the whole Workday lifecycle. Understand it, buy it, deploy it, run it, and then the agents. Each one is a fourteen-panel reference built to be printed, saved, and handed to a steering committee without a preamble. Free, no form, no gate.
These started as answers to the same questions I get asked on every program, in the same order, by different people. What is this thing. How do we buy it without giving away our leverage. How do we get it live. Who runs it afterwards. What happens when the agents arrive. Each guide answers one of those on a single page, and each has the full write-up behind it.
The Complete Workday Guide
What Workday is, how every task flows through it, who uses what, and the terms that make design sessions readable.
Workday = One Login + One Data Core + Every HR & Finance Task + AI Built In
The Complete Workday Buying Guide
A purchase is several separate deals, not one price. The five stages, what drives your price, and the clauses that cost you later.
Good Workday Deal = Right Scope + Benchmarked Price + Capped Renewal + An Integrator You Chose
The Complete Workday Deployment Guide
Six environments, six test cycles, five data rules, and why cutover is a multi-week freeze rather than a weekend.
Workday Go-Live = Clean Data + Real Testing + A Dedicated Team + Governance After Go-Live
The Complete Workday Run Guide
Go-live ends the project. It starts the product. The release year, who owns what, and what breaks when hypercare stops.
Running Workday = A Funded Team + Tested Releases + Named Owners + A Live Backlog
The Workday AI Agents Guide
Illuminate, the agent loop, the six levels, the governance layer, and the honest numbers on agentic projects.
Workday AI = Your Data + Agents + Guardrails + Humans In The Loop
The Workday Field Set
Eight pages. A cover, the five posters in lifecycle order at print quality, one page listing every source behind every number, and one page to reach me. It is the leave-behind I use for a first buyer conversation, and it beats any capability deck I have ever built.
Built for two people at once
Every figure on every poster traces to a named published source, listed at the foot of each guide. That includes Workday's annual report and product documentation, McKinsey with the University of Oxford across more than 5,400 large IT projects, Prosci change management benchmarking, and Gartner and MIT on agentic AI outcomes. Several widely circulated ERP statistics were deliberately left off, including the 55% to 75% failure rate attributed to Gartner, which does not appear in any Gartner publication, and the claim that 83% of data migrations fail, which has no primary source at all.
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