Client-side delivery assurance so nothing in your Workday program is untraceable.
TRACE is a client-side delivery standard I run on every engagement. Five pillars keep leaders informed of true status, put the right people in the room, and surface problems while they're still cheap to fix. Most programs I assess are missing two of the five.
"TRACE keeps every Workday implementation Traceable — so leaders always know the true status, the right people are in the room, and problems surface while they're still cheap to fix."
T · R · A · C · E
Each letter maps to a delivery gap I've seen kill Workday programs — and the fix I install in its place.
A single source of delivery truth — executive-ready status, dashboards, and a live RAID log. Leaders see health, risk, and progress at a glance.
The right people, clearly accountable — a RACI-driven engagement model so the right stakeholders are in the room the first time.
Governance and a living plan that stay aligned to reality — clear cadences, decision rights, escalation, and a dependency-aware plan that never drifts.
Proactive communication rhythms — issues and options reach leadership early, while they're still cheap to act on.
Evidence that scales — right-sized tooling, reusable templates, clean data integrity, and AI-assisted research to surface market signals, benchmark patterns, and red flags faster. Quality stays verifiable and repeatable; the judgment stays human.
The four-phase engagement path.
TRACE isn't theory — it's what I assess, install, prove, and embed across every engagement.
Score the program on all five TRACE pillars — the TRACE Scorecard™.
Install the missing pillars: governance, reporting, templates, RACI.
Prove TRACE on a live workstream before scaling across the program.
Train PMs, hand off, and coach the team to be TRACE-self-sufficient.
Score your program in two minutes.
For each pillar, check the statements that apply to your current program. Your score out of 15 places you in one of three bands. Honest answers only — this is the same diagnostic I walk clients through on discovery calls.
Flying blind. High probability of slip, overrun, or poor adoption.
The TRACE Method is grounded in real delivery discipline — document-driven master plans, governance and milestone tracking, RACI and stakeholder alignment, proactive escalation, and rigorous data integrity. It's the standard I've applied across 30+ person delivery teams and mid-flight program turnarounds.