Deployment
Many factors of deployment planning are covered in this section. Strategic deployment planning needs to be started as early as the Explore phase in SAP Activate Methodology. It’s made up of the following:
- Release management
- Cutover management
- Readiness of the solution
- Readiness of people
- Readiness of the business
- Deployment and transition to AMS
- Monitoring progress to go-live
- Hypercare with the post-pilot global deployment
- Go-live
- Rollout post go-live with localization
Many best practices for global deployments ought to be included as part of deployment planning. They include the following factors:
- The pilot selection needs to match the broad scope of the template but with less risk.
- Design an industrialized release strategy that has support from key stakeholders.
- Reduce the number of go-lives across the deployment program to minimize business disruption – for example, minimize disruption...
