2009…glad to see the back of it, not the best of years, I think the recession had a lot to do with projects being put on hold. The good news is that they cannot kept on hold forever.
Some things never seem to change, SAP Security is almost always an after-thought in a SAP Implementation. Always brought in too late, often picking up the pieces that others have left behind, no documentation, no key contacts, left alone to figure out where we are in the project.
At one client, late on a Friday afternoon, I receive a list of users that require SAP access for testing. OK, what access do you need? Which client and when do you need this? ‘I don’t know, but by the end of the day, testing starts on Monday’ was the reply!
A clown may no longer wear face paint, baggy clothes, big shoes, juggle balls, but I know a clown when I see one.
I often think, how can the Project Manager allow this to take place? Why is SAP Security brought in at such a late stage, it would never happen to any of the functional modules?
Do SAP experts ever become SAP Project Managers? I wish they would, the knowledge and experience gap would fill a void that continues to grow.
I digress; SAP Security needs to move forward as part of the core development of the Functional Modules. Security must be taken seriously and given higher priority, I often feel that only until a loss/fraud takes place, will the Client then raise its profile.
Well that’s my view, lets hope in 2010 there is a better understanding of SAP activities.
