SACM. Curriculum Design - SAP Cloud Application Lifecycle Management (CALM)

1. Discover

• Solution Value and Functionality Demonstrations

• Solution Value and Functionality Demonstrations

• To-Be Architecture Definition for SAP SuccessFactors

• Solution Architecture Definition

• Business Architecture Definition

• Integration Architecture Definition

• Target Solution Model Determination

• Develop, Document and Confirm Instance Strategy

• Develop, Document and Confirm Data Migration Strategy

• Implementation Scenario and Scope Definition for SAP SuccessFactors

• High Level Implementation Approach and Phasing

• Effort Estimations

• Develop Scope Statement

• Organizational Change Management Overview

• Understand the Fundamentals of Organizational Change Management

• Comprehend the Approach to Organizational Change Management

• Provide Information on Organizational Change Management to Project Stakeholders

2. Prepare

• Getting Started with your SAP Implementation

• Join Embedded Launch Activities in SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding Journey

• Supporting Tools for Implementation

• Initial Access to SAP for Me

• Ensure Project Team Members Access to SAP Community

• Grant Access to Partner for Creating and Managing Cases

• Ensure Project Team Members Access to the SAP Activate Community

• Request Initial System Access

• Request SAP Cloud ALM Tenant

• Initial System Access for SAP Cloud ALM

• Initial System Access for SAP Cloud ALM

• Initial Tenant Access to SAP SuccessFactors

• Request Provisioning Access to SuccessFactors

• Add Super Admin Access to the SuccessFactors Instance

• Initial Tenant Access for Employee Central Payroll Development Tenant

• Create Initial User in the Employee Central Payroll System

• Customer Team Self-Enablement

• Self-Enable on the Fit-to-Standard Process

• Review Self-enablement Materials for SuccessFactors

• Self-Enable on Authorization and Permission Training for SuccessFactors

• Self-Enable on the Package Configuration Manager for SAP SuccessFactors Solutions

• Test Preparation Training

• Project Initiation and Governance

• Create Project Charter and Scope Statement

• Establish Project Governance

• Define Project Communications and Reporting

• Project Plans, Schedule and Budget

• Create Project Schedule and Budget

• Assign Resources and Refine Project Tasks in SAP Cloud ALM

• Align Project Schedules

• Project Standards, Infrastructure, and Solution

• Define Project Standards

• Set Up Project Team Logistics and Infrastructure

• Verify Project Team Certification and Experience for SAP SuccessFactors

• Create a Document Repository for the Implementation Project Team

• Project Kick-Off and Onboarding

• Onboard Project Team

• Conduct Kickoff Workshop

• Change Concept

• Define Organizational Change Management Roles

• Staff Organizational Change Management Resources

• Define Organizational Change Management Set-up

• Change Plan

• Determine Action Areas for Organizational Change Management

• Develop First Version of the Change Plan

• Establish Updating Procedure for the Change Plan

• Business Driven Configuration Assessment

• Complete the Data As-Is Analysis Questionnaire for SAP SuccessFactors

• Solution Scope

• Determine Scope of Standard Content to be Deployed

• Stakeholder Analysis

• Identify Stakeholders

• Assess Stakeholders

• Derive Stakeholder Engagement Activities

• Communication Analysis and Plan

• Analyze Communication Channels

• Analyze Communication Needs

• Create Communication Plan

• Fit-to-Standard Analysis Preparation

• Prepare for Fit-to-Standard Workshops

• Create Initial Integration and API List

• Create Initial Analytics List

• Review Data Protection Requirements and Functionality

• Identify Relevant Implementation Design Principles (IDPs)

• Data Migration Approach and Plan

• Develop the Data Migration Approach and Plan

• Enablement Strategy

• Review Enablement Strategy Research and Interviews

• Document Enablement Strategy

• Learning Needs Analysis for Project Team

• Identify Learning Needs for Project Team

• Create Learning Curriculum based on SAP Standard Learning

• Conduct Business Review

• Content Development Tool Deployment

• Prepare and Install a Content Development Tool

• Prepare Phase Closure and Sign-Off

• Conduct Project Quality Gate for Prepare Phase

• Obtain Customer Sign-Off for Phase Completion

3. Explore

• Execution and Monitoring of Project

• Direct and Manage Project Execution

• Update Project Management Documents

• Manage Project Issues, Risks, and Changes

• Communicate Project Status and Progress

• Communication Plan Execution

• Prepare Communication Activities

• Deliver Communication Activities

• Update Communication Plan

• Fit-to-Standard Analysis

• SuccessFactors - Conduct Workshop

• Fit-to-Standard Analysis Documentation

• Document and Maintain Business Process Flows

• Document Configuration Values for SuccessFactors

• Confirm Backlog

• Integration Planning and Design

• Determine Details for Customer-Driven Integrations for SAP S/4HANA Cloud

• Analytics Planning and Design

• Handover of Requirements to Analytics Expert

• Review Scope Items and Requirements for Embedded Analytics

• Review and Customer Sign off for Analytics

• Identity and Access Management Planning and Design

• Plan and Design Role-Based Permissions - SuccessFactors

• Learning Needs Analysis for Users

• Identify Learning Needs Identification Process

• Create Learning Curriculum

• Review Enablement Business Review

• Data Load Preparation

• Download Templates for Data Loads from SuccessFactors

• Extract and Transform Legacy Data

• Develop Overall Load Plan

• Perform Data Cleansing Activities

• Test Planning

• Create Test Strategy for SAP S/4HANA Cloud

• Create and Schedule Test Plan

• Explore Phase Closure and Sign-Off

• Conduct Project Quality Gate for Explore Phase

• Obtain Customer Sign-Off for Phase Completion

4. Realize

• Execution and Monitoring of Project

• Direct and Manage Project Execution

• Update Project Management Documents

• Manage Project Issues, Risks, and Changes

• Communicate Project Status and Progress

• Detailed Change Impact Analysis

• Prepare Change Impact Workshops

• Conduct Change Impact Assessment

• Manage Change Impacts

• Initial Tenant Access for SuccessFactors Development and Test Tenant

• Request Provisioning Access to SuccessFactors

• Add Super Admin Access to the SuccessFactors Instance

• Initial Tenant Access for Employee Central Payroll Test Tenant

• Create Initial User in the Employee Central Payroll System

• Enablement Content Development

• Create a Content Development Plan

• Manage Content Design and Content Development

• Best Practices Installation in the Development Tenant - Manage Workforce

• Set Up Employee Central using SAP Best Practices

• Load Employee Sample Master Data

• Set Up Finance in Employee Central Payroll

• Set Up Employee Central Payroll for United States using SAP Best Practices

• Set Up Employee Central Payroll for Other Countries

• Set Up Payroll Processing Control Center using SAP Best Practices

• Best Practices Installation in the Development Tenant - Recruit to Onboard

• Set Up Recruiting using SAP Best Practices

• Set Up Onboarding/Offboarding using SAP Best Practices

• Best Practices Installation in the Development Tenant - Develop to Grow

• Set Up Performance & Goals using SAP Best Practices

• Set Up Succession and Development using SAP Best Practices

• Set Up Opportunity Marketplace using SAP Best Practices

• Set Up Learning using SAP Best Practices

• Best Practices Installation in the Development Tenant - Reward to Retain

• Set Up Compensation using SAP Best Practices

• Project Team User Creation in SuccessFactors in the Development Tenant

• Create Project Team Members in SAP SuccessFactors

• Foundational Objects in the Employee Central Development Tenant

• Configure Employee Central Core – Organization, Pay and Job Structures

• Configure Employee Central Core – Pay Scale Objects

• SAP SuccessFactors Best Practices in the Test Tenant

• Copy Initial SuccessFactors Configuration to the Test Tenant

• Setup for Identity Management in the Quality/Test Tenant

• Set Up of Identity Management for SAP SuccessFactors in the Test Tenant

• Set Up of the user distribution from SAP SuccessFactors to SAP S/4HANA cloud in the Test Tenant

• SAP Master Data Integration Service Setup in the Test Tenant

• Set Up SAP Master Data Integration Service

• Master Data Integration Setup for Finance Data in the Test Tenant

• Set Up Master Data Integration for Finance Data in SAP S/4HANA

• Set Up Master Data Integration for Finance Data in SAP SuccessFactors

• Master Data Integration Setup for Workforce Data in the Test Tenant

• Set Up Master Data Integration for Workforce in SAP SuccessFactors

• Set Up Workforce Management with the SAP Master Data Integration Service

• Set Up Master Data Integration for Job Classification Integration in SAP SuccessFactors

• Set Up Master Data Integration for Organizational Units in SAP SuccessFactors

• Integration Setup in the Test System

• Set Up Availability Data Replication from SAP SuccessFactors to S/4HANA Cloud

• Set Up Workforce Planning in SAP Analytics Cloud using Best Practices (3DJ, 1YB, 2EB)

• Set Up Payroll Processing Integrations using SAP Best Practices (1NL)

• Verify Best Practices Setup

• Project Team Member Creation in the Integrated Test Landscape

• Create Project Team Members in SAP SuccessFactors

• Set Up Business Roles

• Production System Initial Access for SuccessFactors

• Add Super Admin Access to the SuccessFactors Instance

• Copy Initial SuccessFactors Configuration to Production Tenant

• Production System Initial Access for Employee Central Payroll

• Create Initial User in the Employee Central Payroll System

• Transport Initial SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll Configuration to Production Tenant

• Solution Configuration

• Complete Core Configuration for Employee Central

• Complete Core Configuration for Employee Central Payroll

• Complete Core Configuration for Recruiting

• Complete Core Configuration for Onboarding

• Complete Core Configuration for Performance and Goals

• Complete Core Configuration for Compensation

• Complete Core Configuration for Succession and Development

• Complete Core Configuration for Learning

• Execute Business Process Unit Test

• Verify Configuration with Business Process Requirements

• Copy Sprint SuccessFactors Configuration to the Test and Production Tenants

• Execute Transport Sprints for SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll

• Release Cycles for SAP SuccessFactors

• Prepare for the First Half and Second Half Release Cycles

• Analytics Configuration in the Development Tenant

• Set Up of Embedded Reporting for SuccessFactors in the Development Tenant

• Identity and Access Management Configuration in the Development System

• Configure Role-Based Permissions in SuccessFactors

• Data Migration in the Development Tenant

• Populate Data into the Migration Templates for Success Factors

• Execute Data Migration for SuccessFactors

• Execute Data Migration for SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll

• Analytics Configuration in the Test System

• Set Up of Embedded Reporting for SuccessFactors in the Test Tenant

• Setup for Access Governance in the Test System

• Set Up Automated Provisioning via SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance (‏3AB‏)

• Set Up of Access Governance

• Setup for Identity Management in Production Tenant

• Set Up of Identity Management for SAP SuccessFactors in the Production Tenant

• Set Up of the user distribution from SAP SuccessFactors to SAP S/4HANA cloud in the Production Tenant

• SAP Master Data Integration Service Setup in the Production Tenant

• Set Up SAP Master Data Integration Service

• Master Data Integration Setup for Finance Data in Production

• Set Up Master Data Integration for Finance Data in SAP S/4HANA

• Set Up Master Data Integration for Finance Data in SAP SuccessFactors

• Master Data Integration Setup for Workforce Data in Production

• Set Up Master Data Integration for Workforce in SAP SuccessFactors

• Set Up Workforce Management with the SAP Master Data Integration Service

• Set Up Master Data Integration for Job Classification Integration in SAP SuccessFactors

• Set Up Master Data Integration for Organizational Units in SAP SuccessFactors

• Integration Setup in the Production System

• Set Up Availability Data Replication from SAP SuccessFactors to S/4HANA Cloud

• Set Up Workforce Planning in SAP Analytics Cloud using Best Practices (3DJ, 1YB, 2EB)

• Set Up Payroll Processing Integrations using SAP Best Practices (1NL)

• Verify Best Practices Setup

• Setup for Access Governance in the Production System

• Set Up Automated Provisioning via SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance (‏3AB‏)

• Set Up of Access Governance

• Project Team Member Creation in the Integrated Production Landscape

• Create Project Team Members in SAP SuccessFactors

• Set Up Business Roles

• Test Preparation

• Prepare Testing Prerequisites

• Set Up Selected Third Party Automated Testing Tools

• Defining Test Cases/Test Scripts

• Create Test Plan

• Data Migration in the Test Tenant

• Execute Data Migration for SuccessFactors

• Execute Data Migration for SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll

• Conduct Final Data Quality Assessment

• Test Execution

• Execute the Test Cases

• Defect Management and Re-testing

• Test Execution Analysis and Reporting

• Solution Walkthrough

• Prepare for Solution Walkthrough

• Conduct Solution Walkthrough

• Enablement Delivery

• Plan Learning Logistics

• Setup System Landscape and Data

• Deliver Enablement

• Support Operations and Handover Plan

• Establish Support and Operation Processes

• Cutover Preparation

• Create Cutover Plan and Documentation

• Analytics Configuration in the Production System

• Set Up of Embedded Reporting for SuccessFactors in the Production Tenant

• Realize Phase Closure and Sign-Off

• Conduct Project Quality Gate for Realize Phase

• Obtain Customer Sign-Off for Phase Completion

5. Deploy

• Execution and Monitoring of Project

• Direct and Manage Project Execution

• Manage Project Issues, Risks, and Changes

• Update Project Management Documents

• Communicate Project Status and Progress

• Production Cutover

• Execute Cutover Tasks per the Cutover Plan

• Production Hypercare Support

• Provide Hypercare Support

• Handover to Support Organization

• Conduct the Handover to Support Meeting

• Deploy Phase Closure and Sign-Off

• Conduct Project Quality Gate for Deploy Phase

• Obtain Customer Sign-Off for Phase/Project Completion

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What to Expect

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How to Get Involved

1. Express your interest: Reach out to us at [email protected] with a brief introduction and your areas of expertise in HR Tech.

2. Attend our kickoff event: Join our virtual orientation session to learn more about the collaboration space and meet potential partners.

3. Propose a project or research idea: Share your vision for advancing HR Tech and find like-minded collaborators within the community.

Industry Immersion Lab (IIL) Case Studies for Application Lifecycle Management using SAP CALM