SAP Planning: Best Practices in Implementation

Moving Beyond the “Napkin” Plan

With your Napkin Plan starting to grow and fill out, and timelines coming together, it makes sense to begin formalizing all of this into the SAP Project Plan (if you have not already done so). Throughout this book, I reference what I mentioned earlier—the SIPP, or SAP Implementation Project Plan. A copy of a sample SIPP may be found on the Planning CD.

How to Begin Measuring Progress and Success

Tracking, measuring, and charting progress is all accomplished via the SIPP. It is the Project Plan that becomes the central vehicle for tracking changes to the plan of record, too. That is, as newer versions of the SIPP emerge (due to inevitable delays, the impact of authorized “scope creep,” changes or challenges with ...