Identify and Arrange Infrastructure For Remote Execution of IT Projects (MMC)

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Background

You need to make each and every associate of your organization to work from home when a pandemic like situation arrives.

One key aspect of preparation is to revisit the existing infrastructure to enable the remote work. Infrastructure in this context refers to the assets and utilities required to support remote working.

Areas of Focus for additional and upgrading Infrastucture

You may need to review all the connections required in your Project (s). The connectivity may be required for:

Accessing Project Applications

Accessing the servers and applications relevant to the Project. If the project is to implement SAP, you need access to server hosting SAP application.

Other applications may include:

• • • elearning tools such as SAP enable or others
    • Win Shuttle for Data Migration

You need access and authorized privileges to work on the applications such as SAP, Databases, Data Migration tools such as Win Shuttle etc

2. Accessing the Knowledge management portal and repository

This access is to:

• • • Refer the relevant documentation such as requirements, Customer processes, Master data of current business
    • Publish the work in progress and signed documentation
    • Standard material such as SAP documents, Winshuttle installation manual
    • Governance documentation such as Minutes of meetings, Key Decisions, Action items, Project schedule etc

3. Other enabling tools such as

• • • Test capturing and managing tools like SAP Solution Manager or HP ALM etc
    • Test Automation Tools such as Selenium (if applicable)
    • Performance testing Tools
    • Batch Job Management tools
    • Many others

4. External access as part of Project

You may also need to check the external access to your customer assets.

For example, SAP to access and perform some actions such as SAP Audit, Performance checks

5. Collaboration tools

Tools required to interact and deliver the Project deliverables:

• • • Web Chat such as Google Handout, MS teams, Concorde etc
    • Web Conferencing tools such as Google Meet, MS teams, Zoom etc
    • Data storing drives such as Google Drive, Dropbox
    • Email interaction tools such as MS Exchange, Gmail etc
    • Project Collaboration tools such as beehive, MS Project Server etc
    • Others

6. Internal access

Within your organization teams such as your IT team has to access each system used by Project members to perform

• • • Remote installation of Software such as MS Office, MS Projects etc
    • Machine Administration for all assets used by Project teams, for actions such as regular monitoring, acting on threats etc.
    • Preparation tasks such as Tuning newly issued Systems to Company Image
    • Loading and managing threat prevention such as anti-virus, Anti-Hacking threats
    • Installation and managing of Data Privacy tools
    • Remote Connections such as VPN, Remote Desktop or equivalent
    • All Protections such as Vulnerability management

You need to check all the aspects track-wise and include the scale of assets required to cover all the team members.

Want to know more?

The Course Remote Execution of an SAP Implementation (https://www.michaelmanagement.com/sap-training-course/remote-execution-of-an-sap-implementation) covers this topic extensively along with all other preparations required for any Organization to execute the Projects completely from Remote.

The course introduces a  Problem statement in the form of a virtual scenario that mandated 100% remote execution of SAP Implementation.

It followed by Preparation aspects such as infrastructure, Training, Process changes etc,  to ensure the new working model is enabled with all support.

Finally it explains how the entire project is Executed. As part of the learning, the course provides review and analysis on open items such as inability to test the Hard Printouts, Physical Server administration tasks, to make your organization more prepared to remote execution.

This course is more like a case study with reference to a Close to real business Case such as SAP Implementation. It is not a structured course that explains just how to implement SAP. It is also not a course which talks about just remote working.

Course Structure

The course in structured as :

Section	Lesson	Topic	Duration
Welcome	1	Meet your Instructor	02:04 mins
	2	Course Overview	07:07 mins
	3	What is the context of the course content?	06:10 mins
Business Case	4	Business Case: The Situation	04:11 mins
	5	Business Case: The Challenges	10:17 mins
Preparation	6	Process and Policies	03:27 mins
	7	Process for New Working Style	09:59 mins
	8	Ownership of Asset Protection	03:27 mins
	9	Role Clarity	07:06 mins
	10	Objectives Achieved from establishing Role Clarity	03:53 mins
	11	Protection of Customer Interest	04:43 mins
	12	Revisit, Validate and Arrange Infrastructure	10:52 mins
	13	Training Managers	07:41 mins
	14	Team Building	05:07 mins
Execution Approach	15	Execution Approach: Introduction	01:08 mins
	16	Preparation Phase in Brief	02:57 mins
	17	Blue Print Phase in Brief	02:29 mins
	18	Realization phase in Brief	01:45 mins
	19	Final Preparation Phase	02:29 mins
	20	Analysis and Plan	01:41 mins
Collaterals	21	SAP Implementation Cycle in Brief	PDF
Execution	22	Blue Print Phase: Major Activities	02:11 mins
	23	Blue Print Phase: Activity Analysis	11:07 mins
	24	Blue Print Phase: Tools Used	02:08 mins
	25	Execution: Realization Phase	05:28 mins
	26	Execution: Go Live and Support	06:05 mins
Learning	27	Learnings and Experience	07:58 mins
Future Preparation	28	Tips to Prepare Future Remote Engagements	06:33 mins
New way of Life	29	New Way of Life	01:31 mins
	30	The Positives	07:20 mins
	31	The Challenges	07:14 mins
	32	New Way of Life Trends	04:29 mins
Open Items	33	Open Items for Remote Working	06:03 mins
Closure	34	Future Predictions and WishLists	05:30 mins
	35	Summary	02:54 mins
	36	Course Handout	PDF