Project Life cycle development

[Former Member]

hi hurus,

what is the difference between

Project Life cycle development

and SAP Full life cycle implementation .

regards,

praveen

[Former Member]

Hi,

SAP DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE

ASAP Methodology:

Project Preparation:

The first step in ASAP is Project Preparation. In this step the Functional Consultant will analyse the business process and define the system for SAP and will give the time line for the project. The Manpower required and the budgets are also considered in this step.

Blue Print Preparation:

This is second step in ASAP Methodology. In this step the Project Preparation scenarios are finalised. A out line of the Project is given in this step.

Realisation:

In this step actual development is taken place. The ABAPer is responsible for this step.

Testing:

In this step the development done by the abaper is being tested. This is the area where the Unit Test Document is prepared (i.e. Positive Testing and Negative Testing).

GO live and Support:

This is the final stage where the project is running in the live environment. In this step the bugs if any that are found in the go live procedure are fixed and the project will be considered as support project.

There are different types of Projects in SAP:

1. Implementation

Customer wants to install SAP/Include different modules of SAP viz. MM/SD/FI/CO/PP etc for the first time.Previously he might be using some legacy system in his orgn. This is implementation project. Here one needs to integrate several modules, migrate data from Legacy system to SAP system. Need to prepare interfaces/RFC's to interact with 3rd party systems.

Most of the company's follow ASAP methodology for the Implementation projects

there are 5 stages in the ASAP methodology

they are

1. Project Initial Preparation

2.Business Blueprint

3.Realization

4/ Final Preparation

5.Golive And Support

ABAP work mostly starts in the Blue print ending stage or in the realization stage

2. Support

Customer has already installed SAP & wants to give the work of maintaining those systems. This is support project

There is no phases in it. Just receive the tickets, solve and send back to client.

3. Upgrade

Customer has SAP Version 4.6b and wants to update his version i.e. wants to go to Version 4.7. This is upgrade project

4. Rollouts

Customer has upgraded his version & wants to rollout country specific changes.

This is rollout project

Say a COmpany is having branches in 3 to 4 countries.

In One country they have already implemented SAP

IF they wants to implement the same SAP in other countries of their branches they will simply follow the same SAP implementation policy (Rollout) how they have done for the first country just by changing the country specific settings and configurations.

Check the links,

https://forums.sdn.sap.com/click.jspa?searchID=3895726&messageID=3698776

https://forums.sdn.sap.com/click.jspa?searchID=3895726&messageID=2270483

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Cheers,

Chandra Sekhar.

Edited by: Alvaro Tejada Galindo on Feb 25, 2008 9:25 AM

[Former Member]

Project Life cycle development / ASAP Methodology:

Project Preparation:

The first step in ASAP is Project Preparation. In this step the Functional Consultant will analyse the business process and define the system for SAP and will give the time line for the project. The Manpower required and the budgets are also considered in this step.

Blue Print Preparation:

This is second step in ASAP Methodology. In this step the Project Preparation scenarios are finalised. A out line of the Project is given in this step.

Realisation:

In this step actual development is taken place. The ABAPer is responsible for this step.

Testing:

In this step the development done by the abaper is being tested. This is the area where the Unit Test Document is prepared (i.e. Positive Testing and Negative Testing).

GO live and Support:

This is the final stage where the project is running in the live environment. In this step the bugs if any that are found in the go live procedure are fixed and the project will be considered as support project.

[Former Member]

Hi,

You should know about ASAP (Accelerated SAP) methodology in which 5 phases of implementation procedure we follow:

1. Initial Project preparation:

2. Business Blue Print

3.Realization

4.Final preparation

5. Go live and Support.

go through the SAP doc for further details.

ABAPer comes into picture in the end of the Bluprint stage.

Initially he handles most of the Enhancements, and Layout sets.

Before go live he works with Master data upload.

Reports comes in the last.

Implementation steps:

1. AS IS process

2. To be process mapping

3. customizaiton in SAP + devepment

4. Unit testing

5. Full testing

6. End-user training

7. Go-live

8. Support for initial month-ends.

9. Ongoing support....

Basically full life cycle is ised in the context of full implementation of the project which involves - Business Blue Print, Realization, Testing, Go live and post go live support.

End to End can be related to a particular business process. For example, we can consider Order to Cash as end to end cycle. This will involve - creation of a Sales Order, Delivery, Billing , Customer Payment.

thanks

Sarada