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Three SAP Change Management Process Questions and Resolutions

It’s a bit late for New Year’s resolutions already in the first half of February, but with 10 ½ months of 2018 left, here are three quick questions with corresponding resolutions to help simplify and improve your SAP change management processes
Feb 2018
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How to reduce SAP change risk with Rev-Trac

Quarantining to Lower Risk and Keep Your Rev-Trac OOPS Checks Relevant

It can be difficult keeping SAP landscapes consistent. For example, as Quality Assurance environments are refreshed, over time systems can begin to get out of sync. The number of DEV system transports existing only in the development system, unlikely to ever be moved to Production, grows.
Feb 2018
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SAP Change Control Automation and Production System Stability

I’ve been spending the last week or so travelling and speaking with customers and potential customers. In two consecutive meetings, two SAP IT team leaders from two different companies told me the exact same reason for automating their SAP change control processes.
Jan 2018
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Pathways to accelerated SAP change delivery: multi path development and release management

Over the last few posts I’ve been discussing some of the things SAP IT teams will need to address on their journey to accelerated SAP change delivery. In my previous post I explained the need for process maturity and process automation. This time, we will look at the value of multi path development and release management.
Jan 2018
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Agile Change Teams – From Centralized to Decentralized Control

Jan 2018
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Are you on the path to agile or SAP DevOps?

Recently, I came across a post outlining the steps for development teams to successfully start a DevOps transformation. In his post, John Jeremiah, points out that for a successful proactive transformation certain stars need to align. That is a business need for velocity and speed and management’s impatience with the current pace of change. However, in speaking with SAP IT teams looking at a DevOps transformation it almost always is in reaction to pressure from the business rather than a proactive change in approach. So how can an SAP IT team better anticipate the need for change and become a little more proactive?
Dec 2017
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DevOps Feature: Inflight Parallel Check Report

The latest release is now out, Rev-Trac v7SPS03! A hidden gem that will convince you that it is high time to upgrade your Rev-Trac version, is the inflight parallel check report. This gem is related to the need to facilitate and manage parallel development, which is becoming a more common occurrence as you embrace DevOps and an Agile delivery methodology.
Nov 2017
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How to accelerate your S/4 HANA transformation and eliminate risk

Automation and DevOps Maturity

According to Forrester Research, 95% of organizations are moving to Agile and following suit with DevOps. (Forrester Research: Aligning Agile And DevOps Practices With Business Value). Likely then, your organization is too. In his white paper, “Drive business growth with agile processes through DevOps for SAP”, Pravas Ranjan Rout of Infosys speaks to the benefits of a DevOps approach for SAP teams and provides a suggested way for SAP IT organizations to progress forward.
Nov 2017
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The Role of Process Maturation and Process Automation in SAP DevOps

Last posting I mentioned some component areas, tenets for success, SAP IT teams will need to address on their journey to a fully implemented DevOps approach. In this post, I’ll elaborate on the first couple. To progress towards a DevOps approach, change control processes need to be robust and clearly understood by all involved. Development, QA, Testing, Business and the Functional teams. There are different types of change, and so changes will be processed in different ways. It’s not rocket science, but it is still surprising how many teams still struggle with this relatively simple concept. Managing change with a ‘one size fits all’ single process will not work in a DevOps / agile environment.
Oct 2017
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Preventing Unplanned SAP Production Outages

It goes without saying that unplanned SAP production outages are costly. That’s why many SAP customers spend large amounts on ensuring high availability and redundancy. Eliminating single points of failure ensure continuous up time. But those infrastructures, no matter where they exist are still subject to accidental production downtime. Whether on premise or in the cloud, SAP systems are still at risk from poorly managed SAP change activities.
Oct 2017
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Stability vs Innovation: A dual approach has a legitimate place in the modern SAP team

It’s interesting to observe how different organizations handle innovation in different ways. For some, innovation is infrequent and for others, innovation is ongoing and seemingly never ending.
Oct 2017
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The value of automation when you adopt agile for SAP

Effective SAP transport sequencing management before go-live

Oct 2017
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