Your Workday 2026R2 testing window is five weeks. It isn’t. Subtract the scoping week nobody schedules, the 31 August close, the Labor Day collision, and the week you’ll want back for sign-off, and the real testing time left is closer to two and a half weeks.
You’ve seen a release-readiness checklist before, every vendor in this space publishes one, and most of them are right. The advice was never the problem. The problem is that it assumes a team size, and a week five, that you don’t actually have. If you own the tenant, the QA cycle, security, an integration, or the finance systems tied to any of it, you already know how this really goes wrong: not because the release was bad, but because a good calendar ran out of room. The teams who are calm on September 19th didn’t get more headcount. They decided what to automate in week one.
Event Details:
Date: Thursday, August 13th
Time: 11:30 AM EST | 8:30 AM PST
Agenda: 45 minutes (30-35 min conversation + Q&A)
Virtual, link sent upon registration


