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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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Are you an artist? Perhaps a cognitive scientist with expertise in man-machine interfaces? If you are like me, you are neither of these, but if you are now in the business of building SAP BusinessObjects based dashboards, then you may well be forced to become more artistic and much more aware of and proficient in the art and science of dashboard design.
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.
First day on your new SAP BW job? Wondering where to start? Not really an expert on SAP ASAP? Maybe you don’t even have an ‘S’ number yet so you can download templates from SAP Service Marketplace. Want to shine, but need a light to see the end of the tunnel? Well, perhaps our SAP Business Intelligence Technical Specification template can help you little bit. In it, you will define:
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