Development Capability

 

Purpose

 

The purpose of this deliverable is to create documented development procedures and form a team that will utilize them. The procedures include but are not limited to:

 

·         Development standards.

·         Naming conventions.

·         Documentation.

·         Development tasks.

·         Change and approval processes.

·         Change and approval reporting.

·         Enhancements and modifications.

 

This also includes lists of programmers, their assignments, and their developer registrations within SAP.

 

How should it be produced

 

The following steps are required to create development procedures and form a team:

 

·         Define the resources (list of programmers) and their assigned tasks.

·         Define the documented method for the development team to ensure the correctness of the coding design.

·         Document development methods for the development team to handle enhancements and modifications to SAP standard coding.

·         Define method for the development team to handle changes to approved development designs.

·         Define development standards, which is the definition of development project basics and the rules that the developers will follow.

·         Register developers in the SAP system with their user IDs as registered with the SAP Service Marketplace to allow developers the ability to change SAP code.

 

What if it is not done

 

This is an important and mandatory deliverable.  Responsibilities and procedures for the SAP development team are defined.  Without set procedures, the implementation cannot be executed effectively.

 

Source of Input (Deliverable/Other)

Input

 

Project Charter

·         Project organization chart

Development Requirements

·         (All deliverable outputs)

 

Outputs

 

Refer to the breakdown of the deliverable in the roadmap structure.

 

Additional Information

 

None.