I didn’t write it before, but I’ve been working on SAP implementation in my company for almost one year. It seems that it’s one of my biggest challenge in my career. And when we’re closing to the end (finally) I get some conclusions.

Before you start any project you have to clarify all documents formats! Obvious? For example master data. For It guy such things are obvious, but when I get Excel file I was shock that simple data could be in such big mess. I had to spend a few days to make it useful. So next time I will create www site to enter information as we need. With strong format and data control. You can do it with www, but not with Excel file…

The second thing is that when you set time line of the project we should control people not when we close to the end but on each stage – each month for example. Then we can avoid situation that 1 month before all things are not ready. Well, I know now that IT project manager is not easy job. Funny thing is that I’m still IT guy, but someone make decision and assign me IT project manager duties, but I didn’t see any new contract …

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