Behind every barrel shipped, every ledger balanced, and every contract signed stands a person. For the Waterdeep Trading Company, the workforce is the engine that drives every operation, and managing that workforce well means hiring the right people, paying them accurately, and directing their efforts toward the company's most important initiatives. This volume brings together the human capital lifecycle: from onboarding workers through compensating them to assigning them to projects that deliver measurable results.

Workforce and Projects unites the three guides that govern people and their work in Dynamics 365. Human Resources formalizes the workforce with jobs, positions, and recruiting. Payroll ensures every worker is compensated accurately with the correct earnings, deductions, and tax withholdings. Project Management connects those workers to the complex initiatives that drive the company forward, tracking every hour and every expense against approved budgets. Greta Ironfist insists that every hiring decision, every paycheck, and every project expenditure is documented with the same discipline applied to the financial ledgers. These guides ensure that standard is met.

What This Volume Covers

Configuring Human Resources establishes the workforce framework. HR controls, job definitions, worker records, positions and organizational hierarchies, and the full recruiting lifecycle ensure that every role is defined, every seat is staffed, and every hire follows a structured process.

Configuring Payroll builds the compensation engine. Payroll controls, earning codes and deductions, compensation and benefit plans, worker enrollment, payroll processing, and reconciliation ensure that every worker is paid accurately and every payroll run balances against the general ledger.

Configuring Project Management directs worker effort toward strategic initiatives. Project controls, project records with work breakdown structures, collaboration workspaces, Microsoft Project integration, project budgets, timesheet reporting, and expense reporting ensure that every hour is captured, every cost is tracked, and every project delivers within budget.

Reading Order

The guides in this volume follow the workforce lifecycle. Human Resources must come first because workers, positions, and jobs must exist before anyone can be paid or assigned to a project. Payroll follows because compensation structures depend on the worker and position records from HR. Project Management comes last because timesheet and expense reporting require both the worker records from HR and the financial posting framework that payroll shares.

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