SAP Planning: Best Practices in Implementation

Summary

In this chapter, I have defined change management, discussed how to implement changes consistent with best practices, and looked at how changes impact everything from the project phases, to the SAP system landscape, to the individual solution stacks residing within each landscape. I then drilled down into organizational complexities, including a common approach to structuring a change management team. Throughout all of this, I hope that the underlying theme of conservatism has shown through in a big way. Changes are an inevitable part of an SAP solution during and after deployment, inviting both much-needed new or revised functionality as well as the possibility for disaster into the organization. My recommendation with regard to change ...