If you’re an SAP S/4HANA user, it’s crucial to understand the role Compatibility Packs play in your system and the importance of monitoring their expiration dates. These temporary solutions were created by SAP to help businesses transition from older SAP…
Introduction In this two-part blog series I am taking a look at some SAP change and release edge cases that have the potential to catch out even those organizations with a decent ‘core’ process based on things like automated checks,…
During these volatile times, most organizations have been faced with enabling their employees to work from home. Social distancing and mandatory office closures have made companies scramble to figure out how to make working remote work for them. Having worked…
I’ve always found the developer experience in ABAP to be quite underwhelming. Eclipse is a big improvement, but still a far cry from what is available to most other languages. That’s why I’m writing a Visual Studio Code plugin. Some…
So far in my Agile blog series, I’ve talked about the reasons why you should adopt Agile for SAP, how to tackle resistance and negativity, and what steps you can take to help you get started. What’s also vitally important…
Risk is about uncertainty. The things you can’t predict are most likely to derail your best-laid plans. But if you put a framework around that uncertainty, a way to limit the volume and impact of unexpected outcomes, then you effectively…
Introduction You might think you’re fully in control of your change and release process for SAP. After all, who’s going to admit to promoting changes to Production otherwise? Let’s just say that after twenty years of working with SAP I’ve…
