Preparing for Technical Go-Live

At least a month before Go-Live, all of the technical tasks related to updating the system earmarked for production need to be addressed. The most critical of these tasks surrounds the issue of change control; any change that must be implemented into production needs to advance down the change management path now. You want to ensure that each change has ample time to settle in and prove itself within your SAP system landscape. And just as importantly, you need time should one of the changes lead to an unstable SAP Solution Stack; backing out a change, or researching new updates/changes and updating the stack, takes time.

As outlined in the ASAP methodology, you’ll also need to focus on last-minute production support ...

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