Concept: Feature Adoption

Use the

Adoption Planning

dashboard to inform which adoption items you want to create:

High-priority roadmap plans.

Low-priority backlogs.

Create flexible and detailed plans for implementation that display on the

Adoption Planning

dashboard, including:

Events such as Workday Rising presentations.

New feature information from reports such as

What's New in the Last 7 Days

Service Update Notes linked in the

Supplementing What's New

report.

Your company events as they relate to Workday releases and events.

Create and edit adoption items with these tasks:

Create Adoption Item

Edit Adoption Item

Edit and manage multiple adoption items with these tasks:

Maintain Adoption Backlog

Maintain Adoption Roadmap

Priorities and Statuses

Create detailed adoption plans by adding priorities and statuses to adoption items. These labels help you categorize and organize your adoption items. You can manage these details when you create and edit adoption items.

Field	Description
Priority	Prioritize adoption items based on details like Value and Business Risk .
Status	Statuses identify work flows for deployment. To add items to your backlog, assign these statuses: In Backlog In Review Prioritized Duplicate Will Not Do To add items to your roadmap, assign these statuses: On Roadmap Deferred Completed You can also create your own custom statuses that fit the needs of your organization.

Customize Adoption Item Details

Use these tasks to create labels for adoption items:

Maintain Adoption Priorities

Maintain Adoption Statuses

Maintain Adoption Types

You can also use the

Maintain Custom Labels

task and select
Adoption Items
to create custom labels of date ranges for planning needs unique to your business.

Organize and Edit Adoption Items

Use the

Maintain Adoption Backlog

Maintain Adoption Roadmap

tasks to organize adoption items based on when you want to deploy them. Example: Use the backlog to track lower priority adoption items and the roadmap to surface adoption items requiring immediate or upcoming action. To move items to the roadmap, you must populate the

Planned Start Date

Planned End Date

, and

Assigned To

fields on the item.

The

View Adoption Roadmap Timeline

report organizes adoption items on your roadmap in a Gantt chart. You can click an item on the timeline to edit, delete, or move it to the backlog.

You can also use the

Maintain Adoption Backlog

Maintain Adoption Roadmap

tasks to edit adoption items. Select adoption items and click

Edit Adoption Items

to mass or individually edit adoption items.