Change Control Affects Everything

As I said earlier, changes to SAP can affect everything—the solution stack, system landscape, phases in the project, and so on. The next few pages detail exactly what the effects are, and ways to manage these rather than being managed by them.

Change Control and the SAP System Landscape

One of the most basic tenets of sound change management or change control includes leveraging the SAP system landscape to test changes to the environment. One method often used is a Technical Sandbox Change Management Checklist. Such a checklist details exactly how changes are initially introduced to the landscape, and then how they are managed or “promoted up” the landscape, starting with the technical sandbox. A sample checklist ...

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