Attend Level 2 Training and Assess Post-Training Skills

Use

The purpose of this task is for each team member to attend the Level 2 courses. This training provides the applications, financial, and human resources project team members with an overview of the business and financial processes, and the technical team members with an introduction to system features in their area of expertise.

After initial training is completed, you may want to conduct post-training assessment to ensure that training has been successfully completed. Also, this will show that project team members are ready for Business Blueprint activities.

Procedure

  1. Set project team members expectations for what they will learn during the training.
    People new to system implementations sometimes have unrealistic expectations about what they will learn during training. Level 2 training covers the business processes in the application, financial, and human resources areas, and technical system features in the technical areas. Project team members should understand that training rarely answers all their questions or implementation issues. The team members learn more and apply their SAP System knowledge throughout the project.
  2. Project team members attend SAP training classes either at your company’s site or at an SAP training facility.
  3. Although there is no formal test designed by SAP, you may want to encourage project team members to discuss integration points, configuration needs, and how these features will influence the implementation. You may also question the project team members about how effective they thought the Level 2 training classes were.

Result

Project team members have been introduced to the business processes or technical features of the System. They are now ready to proceed to the Realization phase and take the Level 3 classes. These will teach them the detailed business processes and further technical applications of the SAP System.

To ensure that the project team retains the knowledge they just learned, see to it that they have a reliable system available that is refreshed regularly. The system should preferably show IDES data that corresponds to the SAP training courses. Each project team member who completed Level 2 training should have easy access to the system.