Software Archeology – how to Successfully Change SAP Releases06/30/2008 by Fritz Mosonyi
16th century. The eyes of an archeologist are scanning a field. He is asking himself where he should start digging. In his life, he still has a few years left. Which area would, from his experience, hold a chance for him to make a discovery? Then he notices a tree. For growing, it would need [...]
SAP Change Impact Management - PHW Business School and beteo study06/30/2008 by Marco Gerussi
In collaboration with the PHW Business School, Zurich, Switzerland we are conducting a study in the IT Change Impact Management area.
We are analyzing a specific challenges of international corporations using SAP as their corporate software globally and specifically the challenges of their IT development organization because of impacts given by system consolidaton centralization efforts.
Fundamentally we will [...]
Configuration Management for SAP Customizing?06/27/2008 by Dieter Steiger
A comprehensive configuration management is the most important basis of SAP Change and Transport Management. For ABAP code, this is accepted as general practice and supported by suitable tools. But how about configuration management for SAP customizing?
From our experience, the major part of changes transported across a SAP system landscape are customizing changes. Not surprisingly, [...]
Proof of Concept - Less Risk for System Implementations06/26/2008 by Marco Gerussi
Scoping for defined requirements and harmonized expectations
The scoping approach allows you to define requirements, expectations and project scopes when systems, methods and processes are implemented. This results in aligned expectations, a well-designed system architecture, defined requirements as well as a structured implementation roadmap. If the roadmap is implemented in several iterations, quick wins are achieved [...]
Proactive Impact Management - the basis for BTO06/25/2008 by Dieter Steiger
Business Technology Optimization as a Challenge
Business Technology Optimization (BTO) targets at a closer collaboration of IT and business – nothing really new, just a daily challenge to the CIO. To support SAP IT organizations in reaching this target, beteo has designed the beteo Impact Hourglass.
With the beteo Impact Hourglass, principally all objects of the business [...]
Lifecycle Management – no Pain, no Gain!06/24/2008 by Dieter Steiger
Successful IT Planning & Control must include not only IT Service Management and Project & Portfolio Management, but also Application Lifecycle Management in order to be of lasting benefit. The following illustration by Gartner clearly demonstrates this.
Considering the support of the various areas and, above all, of the interfaces between them, it is obvious that [...]
Lifecycle Management – a Nightmare?06/23/2008 by Nicolaj Ammann
Andrea User and Daniel Eveloper both work in the same enterprise. When they meet in the cafeteria, the say hello. That has been all, so far. Today, they will both attend the same meeting. They still don´t know that this will have an impact on their lives.
Andrea and Daniel are sitting in conference room 3.22
Andrea [...]
Lifecycle Management – what it needs06/20/2008 by Dieter Steiger
In order to be able to successfully manage the Application Lifecycle, the Cycle above the individual development and problem solving cycles, the stage must be set in three areas:
Comprehensive support of all steps of the development cycle
The methods and supporting tools used for the entire development cycle from the user to the various IT areas [...]
BTO - Application Development as a Lifecycle Process06/20/2008 by Klaus Otto
An enterprise applying a BTO Strategy principally strives for three goals: to increase the benefit of the strategic business applications, to better align functional IT projects with these strategic business applications, and to generally manage all enterprise applications with the aid of an efficient end-to-end (E2E) process which is digitized and largely automated, while process [...]
The Cycle Above the Development Cycle06/19/2008 by Markus von der Heiden
Nowadays, software is used in virtually all enterprises. Software is continuously extended, changed or deactivated – as a result of changing business requirements, enhanced functionality of commercial software releases, or subsequent to bug-fixing. Over the years, typical phases, methods and techniques of the development cycle have established: project portfolio management techniques, software development methods and [...]