Agile would cost 4x more then fail under its own weight. There are already several payroll systems that can handle hundreds of thousands of people. The project cost comes from all the non-ROI additions and tweaks that takes weeks and months of work.
Once you hit about 3,000 people, it is cheaper and much more effective to do payroll in house (unions or no unions). Just have to keep scope creep down. Let the software do the work.
Use a modular engine (Oracle Payroll) for unions. Its configuration rather than coding. I ran 52 unions on a system with an average 1 FTE.
And you don't need a QA team. One accountant that knows tax and some payroll can do it.
BTW, I've worked on payroll implementations for over a decade.
A payroll is the single most complex part of an ERP. 30 years ago all you had to do was calculate a set salary, fed tax, state tax, and do a ton of manual labor. Now an average payroll has 1,500 queries per person per payroll, automated everything, etc.
I've implemented and upgraded full HR systems for corporations, hospitals, and universities, up to 250k people. I stand by the original estimates that this is 6x to high cost, using a dead product, and will cost many millions per year to support. It's a milk run for the conslutants.
They are trying to implement a dead product (Peoplesoft) for literally 6x to high a cost. Must be trying to make a completely custom system which is going to continue to cost many millions of dollars to support every year. What a colossal waste.
New nuclear plants use 1/10th the water, produce 1/10th the waste, and can recycle much of that waste. We've solved the issues. Problem is a misinformed and fearful public and politicians.
Iran has an incredible amount of cheap natural gas available, so nuclear is far from economical for them. Also, they have demonstrated their capability of suicidal and homicidal actions so have lost the privilege of nuclear capabilities.
Could this be an upswell, polution from the Columbia river, or both? When I look at the Snake river (feeds into the Columbia) all I see is a bunch of green slime where there should be water. All the runoff from unregulated dairies have turned the river into a polution zone.
That's part of the problem. Everyone demands and unrealistically expects Super Man to walk through the door. Very, very few are willing to invest to create that person.
How many companies have special programs for MBAs? Nurses? Journeyman positions for plumbing and electrical?
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Agile would cost 4x more then fail under its own weight. There are already several payroll systems that can handle hundreds of thousands of people. The project cost comes from all the non-ROI additions and tweaks that takes weeks and months of work.
Once you hit about 3,000 people, it is cheaper and much more effective to do payroll in house (unions or no unions). Just have to keep scope creep down. Let the software do the work.
Use a modular engine (Oracle Payroll) for unions. Its configuration rather than coding. I ran 52 unions on a system with an average 1 FTE. And you don't need a QA team. One accountant that knows tax and some payroll can do it. BTW, I've worked on payroll implementations for over a decade.
How in the hell do you spend $15m on a server? Try 1/10th that.
I'm doing that same thing for $3.2m right now.
A payroll is the single most complex part of an ERP. 30 years ago all you had to do was calculate a set salary, fed tax, state tax, and do a ton of manual labor. Now an average payroll has 1,500 queries per person per payroll, automated everything, etc.
I have.
I've implemented and upgraded full HR systems for corporations, hospitals, and universities, up to 250k people. I stand by the original estimates that this is 6x to high cost, using a dead product, and will cost many millions per year to support. It's a milk run for the conslutants.
They are trying to implement a dead product (Peoplesoft) for literally 6x to high a cost. Must be trying to make a completely custom system which is going to continue to cost many millions of dollars to support every year. What a colossal waste.
New nuclear plants use 1/10th the water, produce 1/10th the waste, and can recycle much of that waste. We've solved the issues. Problem is a misinformed and fearful public and politicians.
Iran has an incredible amount of cheap natural gas available, so nuclear is far from economical for them. Also, they have demonstrated their capability of suicidal and homicidal actions so have lost the privilege of nuclear capabilities.
What's the TCO cents/kw? If it's not economical then the money simply goes to someone else to put gas in their Ford 250.
What about the currents in that area? http://www.coas.oregonstate.edu/CoastalModeling/tr aj_6_12_22_new_cmp.gif
Could this be an upswell, polution from the Columbia river, or both? When I look at the Snake river (feeds into the Columbia) all I see is a bunch of green slime where there should be water. All the runoff from unregulated dairies have turned the river into a polution zone.
That's part of the problem. Everyone demands and unrealistically expects Super Man to walk through the door. Very, very few are willing to invest to create that person. How many companies have special programs for MBAs? Nurses? Journeyman positions for plumbing and electrical?
Why go into IT when you can make twice as much for half the work by getting an MBA?
An MBA is half the work and twice the pay as a CS degree and later work. Why the heck should someone stick with CS?