Presentations

Meeting Notes

10/04/2010 - SP Steering Committee

In attendence: Bart Dahlstom, Frank Quern, Gerry O'Toole, John Doyle, Marty Dugal, Kevin Lyons (standing in for Steve Buckley), Wayne Turner, Bill VanSchalkwyk 

Please see Steering Committee presentation attached above (dated 10/04/2010).

Agenda

• Updates
• Where are we now?
• Project Risks (update)
• Important Dates
• Next Steps 
  

10/04/2010 - Core Team Meeting 

In attendence: core team members

Updates

• Test Planning
  • Review Dates
  • SF3 will not be initally scrambled to accomodate a simulation run of the monthly payroll
  • Production validation steps will be executed in SF3
  • SIT (more detailed date view):

The SIT window is 11/11/2010 – 12/10/2010 but there are restrictions around this.

11/11/2010 is a holiday but HRP will begin the payroll comparison runs on this day.

The first 5 business days, 11/11/2010 through 11/17/2010, are reserved for the execution of payroll comparison runs (weekly, monthly & pension).

11/18/2010 is reserved for a controlled Financial Close.

11/19/2010 through 12/6/2010 is open for the general SIT testing (your full pool of testers – business & is&t); please note that there are two holidays embedded in this period (Thanksgiving 11/25-26).

12/7/2010 through 12/8/2010 is reserved for retesting outstanding issues.

12/9/2010 is reserved to execute the validation test in SH3 that will be performed in PS1 on go-live weekend.

12/10/2010 - go live weekend!** Business users meetings status - all areas have or have had meetings scheduled

• Unit test db - ready for use by test coordinators
• System preparation
  • SF7 will be used for (1) a practice system and (2) source system for GUI user exit updates
  • Ancillary system updates
    • Solution manager (SPS24 - complete through production)
    • Portal target SPS7
    • PI w/ ADS target SPS7
  • PS1 snapshot scheduled for tonight (10/04/2010) to be used to refresh SF3
• QC
  • HRP domain has been set up
  • Additional licenses have been installed
  • File attachment issues have been resolved
  • Need to load in production validations steps
• Risks Update
  • EL went live!
  • eW2 moved forward to 10/21
  • OE still scheduled for 10/21
  • New project Remove MIT Alert from SAP (end of October)
  • Broad Deactivation been identified (could go before the freeze)
  • Unicode - obsolete programs may move with the Support Packs
• Transports
  • Core team to review and report strategy for transports by 10/8 to Transport Coordinator (John Tuttle)

09/27/2010 - Core Team Meeting

 Agenda

• QC Updates
  • License issues
  • HRP Domain
• System Prep Updates
• Unit test DB
• Test Planning Updates
• Transport Strategies (begin next week)
  • updated list will be created on Friday (10/1)
    

09/22/2010 - SAPbiz Meeting

Presentation of the project, please see attachment above.

09/20/2010 - Core Team Meeting 

In attendence: core team members

Updates

• Project scope
  • NW EHP 2 will not be available until December 2010 therefore it is nolonger in the scope of this project
  • Confirmed that HRP SP 27 is the base level required for year end tax reporting and will be released by SAP on 10/14/2010
  • Solution manager needs to updated to stack 24 has a prerequisite for the application of this years support packs (update is in progress)
• Quality Center
  • additional five licences have not been installed (should be by weeks end)
  • problem creating a secure domain for HRP test scripts; issue has been opened up with SAP
• Unit test catalog DB
  • development uderway; should be complete by week's end
• Other
  • practice system identified: SF7
  • test planning has started (meetings have been scheduled w/ BOs)
  • will post project related email lists on the wiki
    

09/13/2010 - Core Team Meeting

In attendence: core team members

Agenda

• Set schedule date and time for core team meetings
  • consensus to meet Monday's at 10:00-11:00am for the duration of the project; location W92:Downtown Crossing
• Review of detail project plan
  • discussion around practice system
  • discussion around transports
  • discussion around testing
  • discussion around freeze
• Next steps
  • focus on test plan
  • confirm NW 7.0 EHP 2 availability & compatibility (Bart & Ron are pursuing with SAP)
  • focus on moving current development work to production
  • SAPbiz meeting on 9/22/2010

09/09/2010 - IS&T Kickoff Meeting

 In attendence: ist-sap list members

Agenda

• Background
• Project Organization
• Project wiki
• Project Risks
• Important Dates
• Next Steps 

Meeting presentation is attached above.

09/07/2010 - SP Steering Committee

In attendence: Bart Dahlstom, Frank Quern, Gerry O'Toole, John Doyle, Magdalene Lee, Mary Weiss, Steve Buckley, Wayne Turner 

Agenda

• Background
• Project Scope
• Project Organization
• High Level Time Line
• Project Risks
• Roles & Responsibilities
• Important Dates
• Next Steps 

Meeting's presentation is attached above.

The general consensus is to move forward with the project as planned.