Objective
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To select suitable Evidence generation option for the project, it is advisable to do the following:
Get information on available options from internal team, external consultants, and SAP within information workshops.
Within design thinking workshops, match information from Step 1 to company requirements.
Capture selected option and evidence generation tools preferences within respective strategy level 0 information asset.
Initiate sub-projects for implementing tools.
Pros:
Predictable budgeting
Traceability by milestones/results
Payments based on actual progress
Cons:
Lengthy negotiations and signing
Lengthy Change Requests negotiations and signing
High risk of changes due to uncertainties for lengthy projects
Pros:
Ease of contracting
Less initial efforts on defining requirements
Cons:
Not results oriented
Payments not bound to actual progress
Big Bang Adoption
Phased Adoption
Vanilla Software
Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS)
Custom Software
Passthrough
Exhaustive
Big bang adoption or direct changeover is the adoption type of the instant changeover, when everybody associated with the old system moves to the fully functioning new system on a given date.Source: Wikipedia.org
Phased adoption is a strategy of implementing an innovation (for example, information systems, new technologies, processes, and so on) in an organization in a phased way, so that different parts of the organization are implemented in different subsequent time slots.Source: Wikipedia.org
Cloud multitenant software is sometimes called vanilla when not customized from their original form, meaning that they are used without any customizations or updates applied to them.Source: Wikipedia.org
Commercial off-the-shelf products are packaged solutions which are then adapted to satisfy the needs of the purchasing organization.Source: Wikipedia.org
Custom Software is software that is specially developed for some specific organization or other user.Source: Wikipedia.org*
| Parameter / Approach | Passthrough | Exhaustive |
|---|---|---|
| Short Description | Go-Live on time and resolve open issues and incidents on the go | Go-Live only after all open issues and incidents are fixed |
| Project Team focus | Business Quick Wins | Risk Mitigation |
| Budget spent on | Substance changes | Compliance / Documentation |
| Time-To-Value | Fastest | Slowest |
| Strength of business ownership required | Very High | Moderate |
| Organization cultures compatibility | Agile | Risk-free |
| Stabilization efforts | Very High | Moderate |
| ID | Variance | Additional intentions / expectations | Pros | Cons |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FPP with T&M for developments | Create only those custom developments which have business case | Less custom development, hence lower TCO | Business might not accept |
| 2 | FPP with royalty for business KPI achievement | Focus implementation partner on achieving customer’ strategic business goals |
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| 3 | FPP with royalty for success criteria achievement | Attempt to achieve simultaneously optimal TCI, TCO and business goals | Better TCI, TCO and focus on business benefits | Same as in 2, but with additional TCI and TCO KPIs |
| 4 | FPP for each phase | Ability to select best implementation partner (experience + costs) for the next phase |
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| 5 | Empty Frame with FPPs for each or several releases / epics / sprints | Use Agile approach for the project |
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Project initiation documentation has been formulated (project charter, scope statement, governance model, communication and reporting mechanism, and project schedule).
Project standards and infrastructure elements are in place, project kick-off workshop has occurred, and project team on-boarding activities have been executed. An initial end user learning strategy has been developed.
The Business Driven Configuration Questionnaire has been completed and reviewed.
The Starter System has been requested and provisioned, and access checked.
Required integrated systems have been requested, provisioned, and access checked.
The customer’s team has been enabled for different elements of the SAP system and SAP Activate.
The fit-to-standard workshop schedule is agreed.
Customer business engagement for fit-to-standard and other project activities has been confirmed.
Implementation team members holding appropriate SAP S/4HANA Cloud certifications has been confirmed.
A Project Plan available with planned Go-Live Date and Cut Over Phase.
A sprint plan available including all configuration activities on a 'per day' - granularity.
Daily standup meetings are scheduled for 'Realize Phase'.
The customer project team and system integrator team is in place, with sufficient resources to cover all relevant topics.
Fit-to-standard workshops executed and documented.
Relevant scope items are defined and agreed as the high-level scope for Realize.
Relevant end-to-end business processes have been defined and relevant countries have been identified.
Potential scope items with extra licensing have been identified and availability per required country has been assessed.
Authorization roles and settings have been identified and mapped to business user roles.
The list of SSCUIs to be configured been finalized.
The list of 'pre-approved Expert Configuration' to be configured been finalized.
Any additional Go-Live critical requirements have been identified and agreed.
All SAP Integration scenarios and non-SAP Integration scenarios are identified with prerequisites clarified and fulfilled to integrate.
All templates to provision Q-System been completed, template versions checked and submitted to the SAP Service Center.
Release upgrades during the 'Realize Phase' have been identified and considered in the project plan, factoring configuration and transport freezes.
Data migration test activities are scheduled with consideration made for the sequence of data loads.
Configuration of the Automated Test Tool is planned.
The availability of business resources is ensured during the realize phase to review configuration of weekly sprints.
A detailed end user learning plan has been formulated.
Solution configuration has been appropriately performed, respective units are effectively tested, output document templates have been defined, enhanced, and transferred.
Integration effectively setup in the Q-System and started/planned for P.
Extensibility items have been developed, tested, and transported to the P-System.
Data migration has been fully tested, data has been migrated, and final data quality has been assessed.
Prerequisites for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Integration (if any) with non-SAP S/4HANA Cloud systems in productive landscape have been completed.
Test plans have been created and executed successfully.
The post go-live support process and organization is defined and enabled.
Learning content has been developed and rolled-out.
Cut-over strategy, scope, timelines, communication, and roles have been fully documented.
All project deliverables are complete and the project has obtained an official sign-off / closure.
All hypercare exit criteria have been met and any outstanding issues accepted by the operations team.
All data migration activities have been completed successfully.
All project and customer process documentation is stored centrally.
Organizational roles and responsibilities have been assigned for:
Solution Documentation / content update / training and onboarding material for new users (change in staff, new hires).
New user provisioning and authorization management.
End user support.
Key user support.
Critical incident management.
Escalation procedures have been defined, including communication path, escalation path, key contacts, and channels.
Procedure for managing continuous release cycles has been defined including regression testing, evaluation of new scope items and scope item changes, business communication for maintenance windows, and restrictions.
User enablement for the SAP Cloud Availability Center and SAP Enterprise Support been performed.
Training and onboarding material available for new users (change in staff, new hires).
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