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| Project Preparation |
| Activities |
Deliverables |
- Establish project goals and objectives
- Confirm project scope and finalize the project plan
- Refine implementation and roll-out strategy
- Identify and deploy project resources
- Define information repository strategy
- Organizational risk and readiness assessment
- Create overall change management strategy and plan
- Develop communication approach
- Create project team training plan and schedule core team training
- Define project procedures
- Define system landscape
- Conduct project kick-off meeting
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- Project charter
- Final project team organization structure
- Detailed project plan(s)
- High level benefits calculations
- Achievement criteria for project
- Project standards and procedures handbook
- Budget and resource plan
- Stakeholder analysis and organizational risk assessment
- Implementation and roll-out strategy
- List of preliminary benefit opportunities
- System landscape strategy
- Workshop schedule and attendee list
- Steering committee updates
- Phase end completion report
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| Key Milestones |
- Kick-off meeting
- Initial Steering Committee Meeting
- Development System Availability
- Project Kickoff Meeting
- High Level Business Requirements
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| Blueprint |
| Activities |
Deliverables |
- Conduct business process design workshops
- Develop portals strategy
- Develop business intelligence and reporting strategy
- Develop a training plan for end users
- Prepare a communication plan
- Define organizational structure
- Establish development system
- Create technical design including interface and conversion strategy
- Document to-be business processes
- Develop gap analysis
- Refine work plan, resource plan and cost estimates
- Quantify high level financial impact
- Refine business goals
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- Preliminary baseline scope
- Business blueprint report containing to-be business processes, gap analysis
- Business Process Master List (BPML)
- Technical design
- Development environment
- Organizational structure chart
- Leadership strategy with action plan
- Change and communication plan
- Security profiles
- Interface requirements to legacy systems
- Reporting requirements
- Data conversion requirements
- Refined project plan
- Refined resource plan
- Refined cost estimates
- Refined business case
- Phase end completion report
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| Key Milestones |
- Business Scenarios Defined
- Approved Enterprise Business Blueprint, including rollout strategy
- Commencement of system configuration
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| Realization |
| Activities |
Deliverables |
- Baseline configuration and confirmation
- Final configuration and confirmation
- Conduct Unit testing
- Develop System Test Plans
- Establish Quality Assurance Environment
- Conduct final integration test
- Design and construct reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements and forms
- Scrub legacy data in preparation for data conversion
- Establish User Role and Authorization Concept
- Identify training requirements and prepare end user
- Prepare cut-over strategy
- Develop End User Documentation and Training Materials
- Conduct Train the Trainer course
- Determine post go-live support needs; and
- Continue communication with stakeholders
- Perform training needs assessment and develop delivery plan.
- Integration Test Execution
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- Configured SAP Quality Assurance System
- Completed and Tested Reports, Interfaces, Conversion Programs, Enhancements and Forms (RICE)
- Documented Business Function (BPP's) and Configuration Scripts
- Security Profile Matrix
- Final Integration Test Plan
- Completed Unit and Integration Test Scripts
- System Transition/Cutover Plan
- Final Training Plan
- Finalized end user training materials
- Disaster recovery plan
- Performance Test (Plan and execution)
- Establish Production environment
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| Key Milestones |
- Base line configuration
- Final configuration
- Solution Built
- Tested and Accepted SAP System
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| Final Preparation |
| Activities |
Deliverables |
- Deliver end user training
- Finalize cutover plan
- Establish the production environment
- Establish helpdesk
- Establish user support infrastructure and procedures
- Provide post-go live support recommendations
- Perform a go-live simulation
- Conduct user acceptance test (UAT)
- Determine go / no-go decision
- Perform cutover to production
- Convert, reconcile and load required data
- Quality check final preparation Phase
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- Refined cut-over plan (as needed)
- End user training sessions
- "Readied" SAP production system, SAP BW production system and Portal
- Refresher training classes for end users
- Communicate go-live
- Production support plan
- Help Desk Procedures document
- Production data loaded
- UAT sign-off
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| Key Milestones |
- UAT sign-off
- Signoff on conversion and cutover tasks
- Go live checkpoint
- Start of Production
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| Go-Live and Support |
| Activities |
Deliverables |
- Conduct post-production support
- Confirm benefits realization
- Update knowledge base with lessons learned
- Complete hand-over of system
- Review and enhance change control procedures
- Quality review
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- Configured and populated production environment
- Plan for Post Implementation Activity
- Validation of functional enhancements checklist
- Maintenance and enhancement request log (for change requests)
- Project close out and final report
- Lessons learned document
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| Key Milestones |
- Production system
- Handover Completion
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