What guys do after a 15 years career in abap

[former_member197870]

Typically that's a question because industry do not demand more than 15 years ABAP experience.

So if one feels or is obligated for a job change after 15 years,what should he do ?

[TammyPowlas]

There is still ABAP work to be done, especially with S/4HANA. Have you looked at ABAP in the Cloud? See the free OpenSAP courses here: https://open.sap.com/courses?q=ABAP especially the one about building apps with ABAP Restful Application Programming model https://open.sap.com/courses/cp13

[former_member197870]

Sap keeps a ready reckoner for people who are getting bored of technology.

Especially as you have passed this one.

But mainly I need to understand,ABAP makes you at one stage saturated.You don't want to continue with it any more.

[former_member197870]

Typically it's change of fi year in india.What is the fault of IT ?

Why teams are applying your notes ?.Why can't solutions be pushed directly like your mobile updates itself.

[sanilbhandari]

Hi adishar

An old saying goes, it’s wiser to spend your money on “experiences” rather than on “things,” as things are easily forgotten, but experiences live on in your memories, for good or bad.Certain life experiences bring out our true emotions, ones that quickly bring our thoughts to the surface. For instance, our first moments in a country we’ve never visited before or waking up to a surprisingly snowy morning.This phenomenon is also seen in business. There are experiences that businesses can count on to shape their future, be it bright or dim.

Coming specifically to your query on a person with ABAP Experience of 15 years, I still feel that the technology changes as well as Pandemic have reinforced the need for solid technology background to ensure that the businesses are running and ERP is at the core of the same.

I have colleagues & friends far and wide with customers in India(assuming you are working in India with an Indian SAP Customer) who are at the forefront of adopting to new changes. There are lot of things to do, move legacy ECC System to S/4HANA, setting up hybrid or cloud based landscapes, set up automation including RPA, automated interfaces, enhancing user experience, simplify screen personas, adapt new functionalities and what not.

For a person with pure ABAP experience with the number of years mentioned, he could branch out into Program Management for such transformations given the rich experience of working with so many modules or probably become an Enterprise Architect.

I have also friends who are also learning new skills like JAVA, NLP, API integration, ML and are at the center of such transformations. There is only so much more to learn and adapt in such a fast paced environment.

Off course the other side of looking at things is that you expect to continue in the same old comfort way of still writing code and expecting that this would continue, that's not going to happen as change is the only constant.

FYI, I come from a similar background, having started as a fresher in 2007 and worn multiple hats of a developer, functional finance consultant, Enterprise Architect, Sales Executive for ERP, Product Management in S/4HANA, solution architect, Tax Expert during these many years and still think I have lot of things still to do in my professional career. I have been based out of India !

Thanks & Regards

Sanil Bhandari

[former_member197870]

Dear Sanil,

I have a great passion to meet complexities in sap.

Rather I have met many in my environment.

I have put S4 HANA notes and remediated each and every objects with my own hand.

But organizations do not stay same forever.

Transformations occur and people change.

Many managers simply ignore what they are giving to developers.For them they are nothing but tickets from client.What they seem to carry view is that things in happen overnight in ABAP?.

Some managers do understand complexity in things and they not only buy you a good time frame but actively involve to solve complex tasks.These are those people who have been once consultants like us.

Working with such people is a pleasure.

But how when whole system is made bad ?.To that level of suffocating that your team members infact old team members start to leave you.

Did you ever face any system using tickets to solve abap issues ?

Every solution of a ticket in front of manager means resolution of a ticket without understanding the gravity of work achieved.There are work environment where guys achieve things which sometimes sap denies the possibility.Who gives the credit to such developers? .Credit is taken by functionals and for an abaper it's just solving another ticket.

So i would say , why should one work in ABAP ?

[former_member197870]

Well i see a dead end if you opt in technical part of sap.

You are nothing finally but a labourer.

After 15 years , nobody could look for a developer job. It will be a an utter insane thought.

At this stage you are something at level of team lead or more.

What's the learning in looking for parallel roles ?

Then what should one look for ?.