State Engagement and Participation

User Acceptance Testing

In February 2026, 150 Trailblazers joined the COMPAS team to assist with system testing to ensure that COMPAS meets the State's business requirements. 

User Training

Leaning Orienteer Engagement

Several Learning Orienteers were recruited to serve as COMPAS trainers. Learning Orienteer training kicked off in November 2025 and ran through December 2025.

Summer/Fall Agency Tour

Starting in the summer of 2025, the change manager and product owner completed another round of state entity engagement through the "Summer/Fall Agency Tour". 

In this round of tours, the COMPAS team members provided state entities with updates about overall project progress, discussed data validation efforts, gathered information from state entities about their end user security role assignments, shared training plans, and discussed labor allocation processing at a high level. 

Discovery Research Activities 

As COMPAS is being built, the product team continues to ask questions about specific needs of the workforce and agencies. There are always discovery activities happening that explore these specific areas and require agency input and participation. Examples of these discovery activity topics include UKG data field usage, needs for EEOC reporting, and supervisor chase. 

Agency practitioners may be asked to engage in things like interviews, workshops, and surveys. It is important to cover all the nuances of the payroll landscape so please take the opportunity to get involved in this area.

Trail Guides

TG2 Inception

A group of agency representatives similar to Trail Guides launched in December of 2024 called TG2. This group's sole focus is labor allocation as members bring a specialized level of detail and experience to processes and functional review. TG2 will advise and guide the project team in the configuration of COMPAS. 

Fall/Winter 2024-25 Agency Tour

Starting in the fall of 2024, the project change manager engaged with agency stakeholders who held roles in HR, payroll, and finance. Meetings with state agencies and impacted groups were held to discuss change management efforts and future plans for data validation and COMPAS training. In order to ensure state agencies impacted by the COMPAS implementation have space to feel heard and collaborate, they were able to bring their questions or concerns to the meeting as well. 

Spring 2024 Agency Tour

This agency tour engaged the full spectrum of agency stakeholders including HR, payroll and finance professionals. The Payroll Implementation Team shared timeline updates, engaged teams in further requirement discovery, and continued the development of user-centric design. 11 agency teams from all three government branches participated in this tour, sharing ways the project team could support their teams, detailing how COMPAS system support should be organized, and agency specific concerns and feedback.

Spring 2024 HRDW and OnBase Report Usage Workshops

In late Spring 2024, AdHoc facilitated a series of workshops with representatives from agencies and departments to explore the contents and usage of currently available payroll system reports available in HRDW and OnBase. The information gathered during these workshops will help the PIT guide the dispositioning of needed reports in the new payroll system.

Data Quality Rules Workshops

For several months in early 2024, representatives from agencies and departments participated in the documentation of rules for each data element in CPPS. Facilitated by AdHoc, participants discussed the current understanding of each element and outlined rules regarding completeness, validity and accuracy.

These rules have been integrated into technology tools like Informatica and AWS RedShift to profile payroll data as its extracted from the current environment and prepared to migrate to the new system.

Winter 2024 Data Quality Resolution Effort

2023 Agency Surveys

Several surveys were opened to stakeholders and agency partners throughout 2023. The question series are below and the results are here.

Fall 2023 Agency Payroll Tour

Payroll Implementation Team members met with agency payroll professionals (in person at agency offices as often as was available) to explore current and future agency payroll resources, assess current state of agency payroll data, solidify agency - Payroll Implementation Team communications and feedback expectations, and discuss ways the project team can support agency partner teams for the duration of the project.

Summer 2023 Vendor Evaluation and Business SME Workshops

Fall 2022 Agency Listening Tour

The Product Owner, Director of Central Payroll, and the State Controller virtually met with agency teams to open communication about the modernization effort, documented pain points of the current system and processes, and began capturing requirements for the new system.

Fall 2022 Payroll Modernization Workshops

These workshop were facilitated by Gartner Consulting and held during October and November. They focused on user journey mapping and crafting scenarios for the procurement for the new payroll system. Agency partner and other stakeholder feedback was solicited in December and this feedback was used in the published Invitation to Negotiate (ITN) in January 2023.