SAP Project Management
Most often the most neglected of area for SAP training is SAP Project Management.
As an experienced SAP Consultant and SAP project manager, the key(s) to any good implementation are:
Prepare-Ensure you use ASAP or Solution Manager (PM Tools), and complete all stages of the ASAP Roadmap. A lot of people skate through Project Preparation and Business Blueprint, but this is a surefire way to get lost at Realization phases.
Communicate- Ensure your stakeholders are involved, but not in charge. It takes experienced consultants/staff to build a good SAP system. Ensure instead, that your stakeholders are kept aware of changes to business processes, continuously trained, and have continued confidence in the system implementation through demos and process workshops.
Document- Ensure that all stages of the implementation is properly documented. This will allow your client's people to read through the documentation at their leisure, and build confidence in their understanding of the system. From a change management perspective, it builds confidence with all end users if the people they know are involved in the project, are able to give informal information and updates on the project. Informal information should of course be held to a minimum, to avoid any rumors spreading... but that is common sense...
Stay Positive- That is a must. Also, ensuring that all implementation consultants are motivated, and encourage them to to work together, in integrated process work streams. Also ensure a good working relationship between your technical consultants and functional
consultants.
No SAP module works 100% on their own. Concentrate instead on seeing the processes which the modules will support, and document these processes in the business blueprint phase of your project. These process maps can then be reused for workshops, training, testing scenarios etc. later in your project.
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No SAP module works 100% on their own. Concentrate instead on seeing the processes which the modules will support, and document these processes in the business blueprint phase of your project. These process maps can then be reused for workshops, training, testing scenarios etc. later in your project.
As an SAP Project Manager you need to be well equipped at all times. Our Project Management Toolkit is designed by a seasoned SAP Project Manager.Apart from providing you a strong knowledgebase, the toolkit contains all project templates, sample project plans, methodologies, business process templates, scoping templates etc to get you up and running in no time.
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