By June 2001, we aimed to go live on a pilot sample of 1,000 employees. 7 months may seem like a long time to configure a 1,000 payee payroll, but we had to:
 

	Install, learn, configure and customise the brand new PeopleSoft application
	Establish an IT infrastructure to support the technology
	Open a new Payroll Office and equip it
	Staff the Payroll Office (from top to bottom)
	Develop and execute a data migration strategy
	Build strategic and legacy interfaces
	Test everything, develop processes etc
	Develop a model to roll-in the remaining 16,000 employees held on 43 payrolls

In fact, our target was ambitious and we actually went live in September 2001.