The BestXperts team appreciated the challenge from Woodgrain Millwork to not only guide them through a full rework of their Distribution processes and systems but to make the very new SAP Transportation Management (TM) 9 the hub of that solution. After months of site visits, planning and design sessions, coaching of the Woodgrain IT…
We don\'t need to tell anyone who is used to working with SAP that getting the terminology right is often a daunting task. Agile project management brings with it a number of new terms that are critical to understand in order to be able to comprehend any of the detailed…
One of the first things that each software implementation project has to worry about is the general structure of the project team. We at BestXperts have tried a few different variations of project team composition over the years and can definitely attest to the fact that there is no canned project team…
It\'s one thing to have the desire to implement SAP software in an agile way, envisioning the benefits of significantly lower cost and much happier end-users. It is a whole other thing to actually make it happen, resisting the constant desire to fall back to the old waterfall ways of…
In a meeting last week, we got into a debate about the value of tools in an organization. Specifically, we were discussing the merits of our chosen IT demand management software and Agile Project Management tool and whether or not they can be credited with the increase in productivity that our group has achieved…
We at BestXperts did not adopt agile project management overnight. In fact, it took us years to come up with an approach that was both repeatable and scalable. At first we dispensed with the idea of massive upfront blueprinting and instead began to have many mini-cycles of blueprinting, realization and…
Don\'t get me wrong, we at BestXperts are diehard SAP fans. After all, we earn our living by implementing SAP software. But there are times when we just can\'t stop ranting about SAP idiosyncrasies that drive us crazy. Most of these rants boil down to one common trend - SAP…
A number of the BestXperts crew is heading out to Sapphire/ASUG this today to take in the scene and chat about a variety of subjects. Virtualization, Mobility, and Innovation (both as a technology team and as a business) are all on our agenda. Stop by our sessions if you want…