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5 More Leadership Tips for Successful SAP Project Management
5 More Leadership Tips for Successful SAP Project Management

5 More Leadership Tips for Successful SAP Project Management

By Bill Wood|November 21st, 2011|

Of the previous five tips I reviewed last week, the first three are all related to project momentum. Let's look at a key to maintaining that momentum while also reducing the impediments on your SAP project. One SAP critical success factor for maintaining project momentum requires SAP project management that is fully integrated in the day-to-day project activities. This hands-on approach to project management is one of the SAP best practices for overall project success. The tools, resources, and [...]

5 Leadership Tips for Successful SAP Project Management
5 Leadership Tips for Successful SAP Project Management

5 Leadership Tips for Successful SAP Project Management

By Bill Wood|November 14th, 2011|

All too often, I see SAP Project Management done improperly. As I have often said, I do not generally fault customers or clients who hire outside help for SAP project management. If they believed they had the answers, they wouldn't bother with contractors for guidance. Too often, I see SAP project management treated as project administration without much leadership. Just about anyone can be a checklist administrator. What is lacking from many SAP projects is the project management leadership to [...]

SAP Program Management Requires a Type of CMMI
SAP Program Management Requires a Type of CMMI

SAP Program Management Requires a Type of CMMI

By Bill Wood|November 7th, 2011|

Many are unaware that SAP provides a broad set of tools and resources for Program Management and the Capability Maturity Model (or CMM). Few are familiar with SAP’s broad set of supports for this purpose, such as the ASAP Methodology Phase 6 “Run” enhancement. This enhancement is loaded with key information that aligns with Program Management responsibilities and CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) [FN1]. So, what is CMM (or CMMI as it is more properly referred to)? “CMMI (Capability M [...]

Hidden SAP Offshore Development Costs
Hidden SAP Offshore Development Costs

Hidden SAP Offshore Development Costs

By Bill Wood|October 3rd, 2011|

My experience with SAP offshore developers is that no matter how detailed your spec, their lack of experience with standard SAP transactions and functionality prevents them from properly testing their own creations. Their results are more than just full of bugs; oftentimes, the system crashes when attempting to do even basic testing. Repeat testing by expensive functional resources happens so frequently and consumes so much hidden time from parallel project activities that entire project timeli [...]

How the SAP Consulting Peter Principle Works
How the SAP Consulting Peter Principle Works

How the SAP Consulting Peter Principle Works

By Bill Wood|September 12th, 2011|

Most of us working in business for any period of time have heard of the “Peter Principle.” Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull formulated this concept in their 1968 book The Peter Principle, a humorous treatise which also introduced the "salutary science of Hierarchiology." [FN1] While the exact quote is slightly different, many interpret this as meaning that people tend to rise to their level of incompetence in organizations built on hierarchies. As an important caveat before getting into t [...]

SAP Consulting Services for Business Results and ROI
SAP Consulting Services for Business Results and ROI

SAP Consulting Services for Business Results and ROI

By Bill Wood|August 8th, 2011|

The previous post took a hard look at the types of consulting services you need for a high-speed SAP project (see SAP Consultants for High Speed SAP Projects). Consultants who work on SAP projects in the small- and mid-sized business space develop excellent breadth of SAP experience across an entire area. This week, we will look at the other side of that coin: consultant skills from large, long-term type SAP projects and what their experience provides. Consultants on the larger, longer-term SAP [...]