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Comment on How does agile work on SAP projects? by Mike

Mike — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:53:45 +0000

ERP projects are often bad candidates for agile development because you can’t guarantee ongoing participation from your customers. If the customers are the employee in the business who are getting value from the software, you have to remember, they probably can’t get away from their “day job” for the length of the project. The ASAP methodology brings people together for workshops to create a global design over a couple of months. Then at least some of the customers can go back to working their regular job while the configuration happens. Without ongoing customer participation, you don’t have agile.

IMHO, Agile recognizes the fact that software development is a creative endeavor and provides techniques to allow the creativity to flow. SAP configuration is a procedural endeavor, and it really doesn’t have much of a creative element. So, for most of the activities of an SAP implementation, agile is probably not a good fit.

Agile can be used for business intelligence activities on SAP projects. And, as Kat says, on customization to SAP.

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Comment on How does agile work on SAP projects? by SAP Solution

SAP Solution — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:19:18 +0000

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Comment on How to host a Bug Hunting Party by JR

JR — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:20:00 +0000

If using a temporary work around, allows more people to test other parts of the application (that they wouldn’t otherwise be able to test), I see no problem with that.

We want as many eye-balls on as many parts of the application as we can.

Bug hunting sounds like a neat idea. Two heads are often better than one.

Thanks for the update. Good to hear it’s working for.

Comment on How to host a Bug Hunting Party by Muthu

Muthu — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:48:10 +0000

We had it last saturday and it was fun. Everybody liked it. One problem we had was, when a functionality doesn’t work, the development team suggested a backdoor to bypass and test the other functionalities, which other teams followed. I feel that should have been avoided. What do you think? Btw, we did bug hunting in pairs.

Comment on How to host a Bug Hunting Party by JR

JR — Mon, 25 May 2009 15:56:04 +0000

That’s great Muthu. Let me know how it goes. They can be a lot of fun.

Comment on How to host a Bug Hunting Party by Muthu

Muthu — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:25:34 +0000

Great Idea. I am going to host one this week and will let you know how it went.

Comment on Quality has nothing to do with testing by Glenn Gruber

Glenn Gruber — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:26:01 +0000

Agree with the sentiment. We actually did a webinar called “Quality is not about Testing” (http://www.symphonysv.com/newsroom/archive/webinar/, scroll down about 1/2 way).

This is a very ‘Deming’ conversation. Quality must be engineered in, not tested out.

Comment on The Toyota Way – Long-term philosophy by JR

JR — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:59:40 +0000

Hi Bob,

The Toyota Way by Jeffrey Liker is an excellent resource for learning more about the Toyota mission statement.

See my links at the end of the blog for more information.

Cheers – Jonathan

Comment on The Toyota Way – Long-term philosophy by Bob

Bob — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:23:05 +0000

Hi,

Just a query im doing an assigment on Toyota and im having trouble finding information. Il type out the question and just if you can help in anyway or give advice would be greatly appreciaited.

I have to state what Toyota’s mission statment is and critically evaluate it, but i cant find their mission statment anywhere. Also take into account Toyota’s philosophy, vission and goals and objectives and critically evaluate them. Im jus finding it hard to criticise Toyota.

If you can give me any advice or point me in the right direction at all would be very greatful.

Thanks, Bob