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Avatar (Movie ) and SAP Project Management

When I first saw movie Avatar on first day of release in Harrow – Vue theatre, I have not had any idea of writing this blog article. My impression was fantastic visual effects and story like a pakka (aka perfect) Hollywood story climax as we expected. Thereafter, my curiosity made me too goggled on Avatar Movie Making. Interestingly I found few similarities which I would like to share with you. Any sap project need a detailed preparation likewise avatar team done. In 1994, director James Cameron wrote a 114-page scriptment for Avatar. John Cameron said his inspiration was "every single science fiction book I read as a kid", and that he was particularly striving to update the style of Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter series. The success of a sap project is based on passion. In creative industry passion leads to success some times. My observation is like avatar direct every project manager needs personnel style and passion. In August 1996, Cameron announced that after ...

SAP BI and the Conservation of Complexity

You may remember a rather obscure law of science from your high school days in physics called the Conservation of Energy: The total amount of energy in a closed system remains constant. In other words, energy can be converted from one form to another, but it cannot be created or destroyed. I don't claim to understand this principle fully, but essentially it's saying there is a finite amount of energy in any given system and that amount cannot be changed. All you can do is change the way it's packaged. I guess it's a little like the mess in my boys room. It never really goes away ~ it only changes form now and then. I would like to offer a corollary to the Conservation of Energy that I call the Conservation of Complexity , which states: The total amount of complexity in an information system remains constant. In other words, complexity can be transferred from one party to another, but it cannot be created or destroyed. This principle states that in any given in...

Four Work Styles That Can Harm Your Project (and How to Manage Them)

Four Work Styles That Can Harm Your Project (and How to Manage Them) Every SAP project team is comprised of human beings with their own distinct characteristics, needs, and agendas. Successful SAP project managers find ways to keep those differences from impeding the progress of the project. Unfortunately, that’s a skill that is typically gained the hard way, says Rao of Deloitte Consulting. “When you think about what project managers are taught in order to be certified, none of this is included,” says Rao. “They learn how to manage a project planner, how to work a breakdown structure, and how to schedule and run meetings — but not about the challenges they’re going to have managing the people that are going to be involved in these projects. The best project managers are often those who have gotten some scars from dealing with different kinds of people.” So how does a project manager prevent differences in personality from devolving into multiple personality disorder? A good start is t...

The Different Types of SAP Consultants and How They Affect Project Success

The Different Types of SAP Consultants and How They Affect Project Success For a better understanding of the risks and mistakes that impact SAP implementations, I want to explain in a very simple way how I visualize, name, and classify SAP consultants nowadays, defining in general and SAP Consultant as a person who helps implement, maintain, migrate, expand, install, or customize any SAP business solution. In the SAP world, I see four different types of consultants “SAP Techies”: I am not going to speak a lot about them as I think they don’t really manage projects or implementations, and as such, are rarely the reason for a mistake. Typically, SAP Techies are programmers, ABAP specialists, Basis specialists, or software architects specializing in SAP solutions or trainer’s. Sometimes they are used as the “tool” that causes project mistakes, but this is mainly because of the wrong decision on the part of their managers. These folks are always needed in any stage of SAP projects or i...