Fit-to-Standard & Backlog Management

While business experts are self-enabling for the workshops, what parallel work do the technical experts do, and where do they get their input?

How are fit-to-standard workshops structured, and why don't they deep-dive into technical topics?

Walk through the repeating step sequence a configuration expert follows for each scope item in a fit-to-standard workshop.

In a fit-to-standard workshop, what specifically qualifies as a 'delta requirement'?

What is the overall goal of the fit-to-standard workshops, and what happens to the deltas once the workshops end?

In SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, which requirements need a second round of refinement after the workshops, and how do they reach a sprint?

For an on-premise SAP S/4HANA project, when is the demo system readied for fit-to-standard, and why does its setup differ from project to project?

In an SAP S/4HANA project, what has to happen to a delta design before it enters the configuration backlog, and what workshops still run afterward?

What is the actual mechanism that produces the project backlog, and what runs alongside it to decide how each capability is delivered?

You're scheduled to facilitate a fit-to-standard workshop next week. What preparation checklist sets it up to succeed?

Who runs the structured fit-to-standard workshops, and in which phase do they take place?

When a fit-to-standard workshop validates a set of SAP Best Practices scenarios, what concrete outputs should the team walk away with?

Teams set rules of engagement at the start of a fit-to-standard workshop. Which behaviors are encouraged and which are discouraged?

What are the first three steps a configuration expert runs in the iterative fit-to-standard process?

A fit-to-standard workshop surfaces a delta the standard can't do today. What decides whether it becomes a custom extension?

When capturing required configuration in a fit-to-standard workshop, which integrations count as gaps and which don't?

What is the goal of the final step of the iterative fit-to-standard process, enabling the company?

Which two workshops run before the functional fit-to-standard workshops, and what do they have in common?

How does the team define the organizational structure during fit-to-standard, and where does it ultimately get configured?

During fit-to-standard, who is responsible for the actual configuration values, and where are the needed changes recorded?

Why are master data requirements identified during fit-to-standard used for more than just testing?

Which authorization concerns fall under identity and access management in a fit-to-standard workshop?

What does the project team do to the initial system before fit-to-standard workshops can start?

In the enhance-setup step, why configure quick wins before the fit-to-standard workshops instead of relying on documentation?

What are the objectives of the fit-to-standard workshops in the explore phase?

How does fit-to-standard analysis and design thread through the discover, prepare, and explore phases?

In the explore phase, what drives the workshops and what two things come out of the fit-to-standard analysis?

What does the explore-phase design document actually capture?

What are the two accelerated ways to stand up the SAP S/4HANA sandbox that drives fit-to-standard workshops?

What are the two manual sandbox setups for fit-to-standard, and when would you configure one from scratch?

What is the purpose of fit-to-standard analysis and design, and what makes an explore phase successful?

Before a delta requirement's design is accepted, what check can SAP perform?

What are the activities that make up fit-to-standard analysis and design, in order?

What must the project manager settle before the LoB-specific fit-to-standard workshops begin?

Before fit-to-standard workshops begin, how is the sandbox readied so processes feel familiar to business users?

Who jointly owns each fit-to-standard workshop, and what do they do before it runs?

What is the point of the show-and-tell demonstration inside a fit-to-standard workshop?

When a delta turns out to need a WRICEF, how is it recorded and tracked?

Why might a large delta requirement be handled as a custom development rather than an enhancement?

Before any solution design starts, what challenge do architects apply to every backlog item?

What does SAP Value Assurance add when validating functional gaps, and what does avoiding modifications mean?

What does a design document actually summarize for a set of scope items?

Why does the design phase drill down into specific configuration activities and values?

How does a functional specification differ from a technical specification for a WRICEF item?

What is a master data design document created for, and what later work does it feed?

What is a business user role document, and how does it connect to SAP authorizations?

Why is fit-to-standard usually lighter in a system conversion than in a new implementation?

What does a successful explore phase deliver, and how does SAP guard the design before acceptance?

Why did SAP stop promoting traditional blueprinting in favor of fit-to-standard?

During fit-to-standard, a team runs standard predelivered processes on a working system. What two things is this meant to accomplish, and where do the findings go?

Why did SAP Activate move from a fit-gap approach to fit-to-standard, and when is each still appropriate?

In fit-gap projects the team has the full development environment available. Does that make modifying SAP-delivered code acceptable?

Before configuration starts in an S/4HANA project, what does the fit-to-standard analysis check, and what does it feed into the next phase?

Golden rule 1 tells teams to foster a cloud mindset. How do fit-to-standard workshops put that into practice?

Project experience shows many requirements raised by business users are never actually used. What governance does SAP Activate apply because of this?

What makes SAP Cloud ALM useful while a fit-to-standard workshop is actually running?

After a requirement is captured on a business process flow in SAP Cloud ALM, how is it classified and matured toward delivery?

Before the first fit-to-standard workshop, what self-enablement should business process owners complete so discussions are rich rather than stop/go?

Do fit-to-standard workshops have to be run in person, and where is the guidance for running them remotely?

During SAP S/4HANA Cloud fit-to-standard workshops, what happens to a requirement the standard solution can't meet, and why is the validation iterative?

In fit-to-standard analysis, is one workshop pass enough to cover a business area?

Which requirements get written up in fit-to-standard, and which are deliberately left undocumented?

A delta requirement can fall into one of five categories — what are they?

In order, what are the six activities of fit-to-standard analysis and design in the explore phase?

What has to be confirmed during fit-to-standard workshop preparation before the sessions run?

What happens to the backlog of delta requirements during fit-to-standard workshop validation?

In a system conversion, how are the fit-to-standard workshops scoped and organized?

In a system conversion, what does the show-and-tell demonstration specifically focus stakeholders on?

In a conversion, when is a data conversion actually needed as a WRICEF delta?

How are functional fit-to-standard workshops structured across a large implementation?

Which lines of business typically each get their own functional fit-to-standard workshop?

A team used to classic blueprints asks for the blueprint document from the fit-to-standard workshops. What do you tell them?

Across every fit-to-standard workshop, what six requirement categories does the team set out to determine?

When a standard process is tailored in a workshop, what has to happen to its process flow and why?

How are analytics and output-management requirements handled differently from core configuration in fit-to-standard?

Why are extensibility, integration, analytics, and access management often the bottleneck of an implementation?

Where are integration requirements tracked during fit-to-standard, and what optional template helps?

During design review and sign-off, which SAP services can independently vet the design?

Why must design documents be written in clear business language before stakeholders sign off?

Once the design is signed off, what does the backlog turn into?

Why move the requirements backlog out of Excel and into SAP Solution Manager?

What can SAP Solution Manager be used for during the explore phase?

What does WRICEF stand for, and what does the WRICEF list track?

What documents come out of the design workshops for the delta requirements?