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The final piece of the onboarding process involves personnel allocation. Consultants
should travel to the project location and team-building activities should be scheduled to ac-
quaint the members of the various teams with each other. The value of team-building activ-
ities will become obvious later in the project when problems arise. Team members will rely
upon the rapport established at the beginning of the project to focus on the problem at hand,
instead of interpersonal issues.
2.5.2
BW 7.4 testing
In parallel with the onboarding and setup phase, the Basis team can install BW 7.4 on the
sandbox appliance without HANA integration. This allows the Basis team to identify any
potential problems which may arise in the upgrade from prior versions of BW to BW 7.4
without HANA integration adding complexity to the problems. Any problems that are iden-
tified during this phase can be resolved prior to the migration process.
During the testing phase, the Basis team should also begin creating a runbook with the spe-
cific, detailed steps required for each step of the BW 7.4 upgrade processes. This runbook
will be extended and refined with more details and workarounds through each step in the
DMO process.
Sample runbook!
See
Chapter 6
for a sample runbook created and compiled by the
project teams from several real-world DMO projects.
2.5.3
Training
Training must be completed for the project team during the first two to four weeks of a
project and before the BW to HANA migration begins. It is critical that all DMO project
team members have the required training for their areas of responsibility before the actual
migration starts. Without training, the success of any project is at a severe risk of failure.
