Programme shape, waves and sequencing

The eight canonical migration waves mapped from the Maconomy playbook's own wave model, the scope disposition codes applied to every discovered object, decision gates, RACI for the project-to-cash design, required open decisions, and the roles a Maconomy programme must staff — including the customer's own Maconomy application owner.

What you will be able to do

Introduction

A Maconomy-to-D365 migration programme is dominated by the project-to-cash lifecycle: jobs, tasks, time, expense, billing, WIP, revenue recognition, and project accounting.

Wave mapping: playbook to canonical model

The Maconomy playbook (§15.5) defines nine dependency groups (W0–W8). The site fixes an eight-wave canonical model. The mapping is not one-to-one because the playbook separates foundation configuration more finely and groups project data differently.

Scope disposition codes

Every discovered Maconomy object — module, process, customisation, report, integration, batch job — receives one primary disposition code. No build work begins on any object whose code is unclassified.

Decision gates

The programme operates through seven gates, each of which locks a defined scope and prevents rework on downstream work that depends on it.

RACI for the project-to-cash design

The project-to-cash design is the most cross-functional decision set in a Maconomy migration. It spans finance, project accounting, resource management, billing, and operations.

Mandatory open decisions

The playbook (§18.4) identifies fifteen decisions that must close before build. Each is a blocking dependency for downstream work:

Staffing the programme

A Maconomy migration requires roles that span both the customer organisation and the implementation partner. The following roles are the minimum for a programme of this type.

Programme stages and wave alignment

The seven programme stages map to wave activity as follows:

Knowledge check

Summary

The programme shape for a Maconomy migration is defined by three characteristics: project-to-cash dominance (projects are the core workload, not products or inventory), decision density (fifteen mandatory decisions that cascade into each other), and people-centricity (workers and resources are the primary master data, and the customer's…