July 2011

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Business Demad
Business Changes
Provide initial planning and preparation for your project
Project Definition Implementation
Content
SAP Business
Function
Prediction Service
System Landscape
Definition
Document the business process requirements
Business Blueprint
Definition
Business Blueprint
Modeling
Implement business and process requirements
Basic Configuration
Business Process
Configuration
Test implemented functionalities
Test Management
Complete the preparation for Go-
Live
Cutover to live productive operation
& continuous support
End User Training &
Documentation
Handover to Solution
End User Training &
Documentation with
SAP ProductivityPak by ANCILE
Enhancements &
Development Definition
Custom Development
Documentation
Maintenance
Management
Business Process
Change Analyzer
Customizing
Synchronization
Project Administration / Methodology
Issue Tracking / Service Messages / Changes
Reporting
Lifecycle Management
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Who is involved in the project? (For example: Does business reengineering require that the business process experts are involved with requirements and design?)
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When have the deliverables to be generated? (For example: Deliverables across heterogeneous teams require templates to provide a common understanding on tasks and activities.)
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What has to be done by whom? (For example: Complex business teams require clear work lists and strong and transparent planning.)
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How to control and report the progress of each phase?
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in Detail
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Who is involved in the project? (For example: Does business reengineering require that the business process experts are involved with requirements and design?)
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Assure transparency on your project organization !
Project Organization
BUSINESS
Business Process Champion
Key User
Custom Development
QUALITY MANAGEMENT
Test & Quality Team
Business
Process Operation
IT Infrastructure Team
SAP Technical Operations
IT
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in Detail
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When have the deliverables to be generated? (For example: Deliverables across heterogeneous teams require templates to provide a common understanding on tasks and activities.)
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Distribute the work to the right people easily!
Project Team
PREPERATION
May 01st, 2011
Timeline
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Require
-ments
June 01st, 2009
Design
August 15th, 2009
Build
October 20th, 2009
Test Deploy
November 1st, 2011
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in Detail
What has to be done by whom? (For example: Complex business teams require clear work lists and strong and transparent planning.)
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Manage your project tasks, activities and milestones centrally!
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Project Preparation
2 Blueprint
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Realization
Final Preparation
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Go-Live Support
Run SAP
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in Detail
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How to control and report the progress of each phase?
Report your project status fast, transparent and complete!
Configuration
Testing
Blueprint
Project
Administration
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End-User
Training
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The Project Definition and Administration functions enables you as project manager to initiate, plan, and prepare your project. You define your features of your project plan, agree on project standards, draw up a schedule and assemble the project team. You also define the implementation scope and plan for technical requirements and infrastructure.
Define your
Project Type
Document the
Project Charter
Define the Project
Methodology
Define you
Project
Organization
Define the
Project System
Landscape
Define your
Milestones

Project Administration is used to create the project and define some global settings such as:
 Project system landscape: all systems relevant for business processes which has to be defined, documented and implemented by this project. The systems are represented by Logical
Components.
 Assignment of a Roadmap: SAP is providing standard SAP
Methodology in form of roadmaps.
 Roadmaps are providing information how to run the project and which tasks have to be done in which phase.
 Definition of project standards: definition of keywords, and document types (templates).
Configuration
Blueprint
Project
Administration
End-User
Training
Testing
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Select and display your project approach
Provide a solid basis for implementing your software successfully and running your project effectively
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Define your project type
 Template Project
Used to create a template for other projects
 Implementation Project
Used for new system implementation
 Maintenance Project
Used to maintain a customer solution with the Change Management capability
 Upgrade Project
Used for technical and/or functional system upgrade
 Safeguarding Project
Used to resolve a critical situation during the implementation or use of an SAP solution
 Optimization Project
Used e.g. for service delivery to optimize the performance of business processes or a software solution
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Manage you projects and solutions during the life-cycle
Design Build Test Deploy Operate Optimize
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via SAP Solution Manager 7.1
Access Business Function
Prediction Service via Work Center
Implementation/ Upgrade
Review Business Process
Prediction Service results and present and discuss innovation recommendations within your
Business team
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Assign General Data
Document the general project data to clarify responsibilities, language standards and timelines.
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Create own or change existing documentation types/ templates
Global Doc
Document Type automatically assigned to all projects or only to one project
Define document types to set project standards on the documents which will be created
Several documents
Determines whether more than one document of the documentation type can be attached to one structure item (e.g. one template for business blueprint per process)
File extension
Determines which editor to launch if no template is set
Blueprint
Will be used for blueprint generation
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Create and assign your project description centrally
Document the project scope clearly and provide this information centrally as basis for your project calculation on budget, time and resources
Provide a consistent presentation of information delivers a clear statement if project scope aligns stakeholders around the scope of a project formally gains stakeholders commitment to project
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Select or define your methodical framework for your project
Provide a clear project methodology to manage your project efficiently on- time and within budget
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Select / Maintain your project roadmap use a SAP standard delivered roadmap or create your company specific roadmap to drive your project properly re-use the roadmap of your choice in all implementation and upgrade projects to reduce time, cost and risk
Reduce ineffective template and document searches by providing accelerators and user specific work lists to your team
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Roadmaps provides a methodical framework for projects via phases delivers milestones, services, topic descriptions, accelerators which are aligned to the roadmap structure
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Manage your project team centrally
Provide transparency and reduce your time and effort via a central maintained people management
Provide transparency of project tasks and activities via work lists
Assign your project resources in preparation for allocating project team members to roadmap work packages, activities/ deliverables and tasks / methods assigning project role and maintaining authorizations to team members restricting authorization on node level reporting your project status
Reallocate assigned roadmap work packages, activities/ deliverables and tasks / methods to new team members by replacing project team members centrally
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People Involved 2
Manage your team organization
Project Organization
BUSINESS
Business Process Champion
Key User
IT
Custom Development
QUALITY MANAGEMENT
Test & Quality Team
IT Infrastructure Team
Business
Process Operation
SAP Technical Operations
Maintained Project Team Members
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People Involved 3
Manage your project work packages
Assign team members to tasks and activities
Re-use team member information maintained on the overall project team member list
Provide team members with individual work lists to increase your team efficiency
Ease your monitoring of the current status of the project
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Assure a quick project start without technical dependencies
Decouple process model documentation and system availability
Reduce the system complexity and provide a clear project system landscape
Define your system landscape for a transparent system management logical components group together different systems with the same product release decoupling the logical and physical systems transparency across all projects readiness for process models documentation before system availability centrally changes transparent to all projects
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Maintain your planned systems to reduce complexity
Customer System Landscape Environment
E*:800
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D*:800 Q*:800 P*:800
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Reflect your project critical milestones
Reflect your project critical milestones in your project as part of your defined Governance
Process
Assign the milestones to your Quality Gate
Management
 establish one single quality process via SAP Solution
Manager
 transparency across application and technology stacks
Reuse your milestones you defined in your Roadmap
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Get transparency and report your project status
Report your project preparation and project methodology to your management
Review the project key information (e.g. time, resources, status) centrally
Create a project methodology overview to inform your project team regarding existing templates, accelerators
Report your project status on project documents and statuses to all projects
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