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This is a continuation of my SAP BW Best Practice Series on SAP Project Management. In this article I review the key Scope Management Plan practices I recommend you follow and maintain throughout the life of any SAP project. If you are in the middle of development for your next Go-Live or doing an upgrade of an existing SAP BW or Business Objects dashboard system or working on any type of greenfield or ongoing project, I recommend you try these scope management plan management techniques because I have and I found them to actually work in the field. Even if you are not currently following these scope management plan practices, implementing them will make you look smart as well as help you turn around and regain control of any failing project. In this Article, I discuss scope management plan practices, the Work Break Down Structure (WBS), how the WBS is an input to schedule, budget and BW project estimation and how important the scope management plan is to your project success.
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This is a continuation of the SAP BW Best Practice Series on SAP Project Management. In this article I review the key requirements gathering practices I recommend you follow and maintain throughout the life of any SAP project. If you are in the middle of development for your next Go-Live or doing an upgrade of an existing SAP BW or Business Objects dashboard system or working on any type of greenfield or ongoing project, I recommend you try these requirements gathering methods because I have and I found them to actually work in the field. Even if you are not following these requirements gathering techniques currently or when you join a project, implementing them soon after you join will make you look smart as well as help you turn around and regain control of any failing project. In this Article, I discuss requirements gathering practices and how important that is to your project success.
Congratulations! According to the Project Charter, you have just been named Project Manager on the new corporate wide global deployment of the SAP BW 3.5 to SAP BI 7.x Upgrade Project. In addition, the Project Sponsor has been reading a lot about Business Objects Dashboards and SAP HANA lately and wants you to add these in the upgrade. Not only that, you have been informed that this will be a 3 month project with a possible extension to 6 months.
What makes it even more challenging to estimate a SAP BW Project is that there are now usually several other solutions that also need to be included in the estimation process. These may include, SAP Webi, HANA, Dashboard Builder, xCelsius, BOE for administration, and Crystal Reports.We provide a sophisticated SAP BW Project estimator that you can download here on the blog and in several places on our site. The estimator is meant to be used by a highly skilled SAP BW Consultant, as it requires thorough knowledge of SAP Business Content and SAP Business Processes.
If you are like us, you get many, many project offers each day? Usually, they say something like “SAP BW Consultant wanted for 9 month project”. Then, a long list of required qualifications are given regarding what the consultant needs to know. So far, so good. However, what is ‘NEVER’ stated is how do they know it will take 9 months?
