SAP BI- Alternative Plans(A,B,C)

SAP BI- Alternative Plans(A,B,C)

Hats off to Project Manager and SAP BI team. This is really great if your team and PM think above ahead. Dan is one of the PM I meet who can see the things from far ahead. The reason why I’m praising my PM is as follows:

We are pushing SAP BI in prod in this month. This will be our major deployment. This is our Plan A. We all (team) are putting lots of efforts on this Plan A. Can you believe we have Plan B and then Plan C also, if any case some thing screwed up with Plan A we jump on other alternative. This idea is our PM’s idea. He takes few resources including me, and puts us into Plan B. We few people are working on Plan B as simultaneously. I’m testing few tables extracted from SAP BW and SAP CML as our plan B part.

Here is Plan B:
The Plan B situation to produce the information from BW master data actually solves a bigger problem, as having the needed Data in a format usable by Enterprise Reporting will allow all critical month end reports to be run using current ER reporting tools. The users will see little difference from what they have now for these critical reports, and this would be an acceptable reporting solution for several month ends. The daily reports will not be able to be produced, but these are less critical. The team is very comfortable that the master data work to support Plan B will be implemented in production along with the already data.

Plan C
Our team is also working on plan C also.

Wow, this is really a very cool approach. When you have alternative options/plans team is actually working on that plan make team and stakeholder more comfortable and confident. Having Plan A, B and C and you are actually working on it is a great backup for whole team and project. But the real thing how well you communicate and coordinate Plan A, B, C with your all team members matter a lot.

So moral of story, always have Plan B and C ready. Actually work 50% on Plan B and 10% on Plan C. Communicate well about Plan B and C with your team and stakeholder. The golden rule: It’s all about saving our ass.