Fit-to-Standard & Fit-Gap Workshops

What has to already exist before you can even START fit-to-standard workshops?

What is the real aim of running fit-to-standard and fit-gap workshops, beyond just showing the system?

Which SAP Cloud ALM source and phase drive the roadmap tasks for preparing workshops, and what are those tasks used for?

What exactly is Focused Build, and which workshop philosophy does it follow?

In the SAP Cloud ALM context, what scenario is fit-gap typically reserved for?

Walk through the six steps of conducting a fit-to-standard workshop, in order.

What are processes worked through against in a fit-to-standard workshop, and what three things get captured?

How are fit-to-standard workshops run for geographically dispersed teams, and what tool supports it?

Spell out what the letters in RICEFW / WRICEF stand for.

Why is WRICEF called outdated in the RISE with SAP era, and what does its reinterpretation map to?

How does the modern reinterpretation of WRICEF remap the Enhancements and Forms/workflows object types onto cloud-native SAP technology?

Why can many identified gaps in a fit-to-standard workshop be turned into fits without classic custom development?

In SAP Activate, what change was made to the WRICEF workgroup name to reflect modern technology, and why?

How does SAP Cloud ALM operationally support running fit-to-standard workshops, and which two scope tasks kick them off?

What is the difference between the 'Review and Complete Requirements' task and the 'Approve Requirements by Generating Implementation Tasks' task?

On what basis should the 'Define Test Cases' task build the test cases for a scope?

Where do the SAP Activate roadmap tasks used for fit-to-standard come from before workshops are planned?

What happens in step 1 (review) of a fit-to-standard workshop, and whose process content can be shown?

In step 2 (walkthrough) of a fit-to-standard workshop, what does the consultant demonstrate and what do they call out?

During step 3 of a fit-to-standard workshop, why should the team avoid designing a concrete solution and only note requirements?

What is the core activity of step 4 of a fit-to-standard workshop?

How does a note or document differ from a requirement in a fit-to-standard workshop?

Why are requirements linked directly to the processes when captured in a fit-to-standard workshop?

What happens to business requirements that cannot be mapped to standard scenarios during a fit-to-standard workshop?

What does the fit-gap method identify, and what are typical gaps in a template rollout?

In a template-based rollout, how are country requirements handled against the template?

Before running a fit-gap workshop for a rollout, what should you have ready?

Why is it a success criterion for a template approach that process owners, not IT, present the template processes?

During which phase does the fit-to-standard workshop let you lock the ENTIRE project scope, and why not earlier?

Picture fit-to-standard versus fit-gap as a sliding scale — what sits at each end and which side runs longer?

Why have SAP Activate roadmaps shifted away from fit-gap, and what does the choice of approach still depend on?

Both SAP S/4HANA Cloud editions use Cloud ALM for fit-to-standard, so what actually differs between Public and Private Edition?

For SAP S/4HANA on-premise, which workshop types and ALM tools are on the table, and when would you reach for Focused Build?

What is the purpose of the 'Confirm Scope and Requirements' project task?

What is defined in step 5 of a fit-to-standard workshop, and who owns the requirement content?

What is the goal of step 6 of a fit-to-standard workshop, and what combined output do the workshops produce?

When are fit-gap workshops typically used, and which workshop format does SAP Activate say to prefer?

What is the overall aim of a fit-gap analysis?

Trace how workshop methodology evolved, and say which older workshop type fit-to-standard replaced.

What is the guiding question of a fit-to-standard workshop, and what baseline is it built on?

A roadmap task ships with descriptive text, accelerators, and links, so what still has to be set by hand?

Beyond the preselected roadmap tasks, how do you surface other tasks relevant to fit-to-standard workshops?

What relationship information is already built into the SAP Activate roadmap tasks to help sequence the work?

What is the point of the 'Conduct Project Team Enablement on Fit-to-Standard' roadmap task, and how does it relate to steps 1 to 3?

In this methodology, what is the precise line between a fit and a gap?