Improved Business Transformation with Solution Manager 7.2 & Focused Build

Siddharth Mehta, SAFe Adoption Lead & SAP Architect , Boeing & Craig Brown, Certified Focused Build Tool Coach, Xceleon, LLC

SESSION CODE: 10304

• Introduction to Boeing

• The Transformation & Lessons Learned

• Preparing for continued success

• Question & Answers

Agenda

The world’s largest aerospace company and America’s largest exporter

• The Boeing Company – the world’s largest aerospace company and America’s largest exporter – assembles commercial airplanes and defense products and also builds aerospace components in the United States. Among Boeing’s 137,000 employees in all 50 states (as of January 2017) are more than 50,000 factory employees and more than 45,000 engineers.

• Boeing’s market success plays a key role in supporting high-value aerospace jobs across its supply chain and across the United States. In 2016 alone, Boeing paid nearly $45 billion to more than 13,600 businesses, supporting an additional 1.3 million supplier-related jobs in the United States. These businesses include suppliers for our commercial and defense production, non-production vendors and subsidiaries of companies to which Boeing made other payments.

Boeing’s U.S. Footprint

We do the hard things well!

Business Goals Continuous Optimization

Market Leadership

Top Quartile Performance and Returns

Growth Fueled by

Productivity

Design, Manufacturing,

Service Excellence

Accelerated Innovation

Growth Scale and Depth

Partner with the Best Team,

Talent, and Leaders

Top Corporate Citizen

The value that we pursue!

The Boeing Team in Action!

Program Leadership

Solution Architect

PMO

RTE

Sets the Vision

Scrum Team(s)

Agile Coach

Product Owner

Scrum Master

Developers Onshore

Developers Offshore

Functional Onshore

Functional Offshore

Data (2x)

Enables the Vision

SUPPORT OPERATIONS

SAP Systems

Development

OCM

Technology

Security

Data

Test

Release Mgmt

Other Support

Supports the Vision

Release On Demand

Deployment Platform Lifecycle

ITSM

Process Management

Technical Monitoring

Focused Build Plugin

Planned Support Infrastructure Enhancements

• Change Request Management• Business Process Change Analyzer• Component Based Test Automation• Custom Code Lifecycle Management• Data Value Management• Test Data Management Server• Focused Insights

Current Support Infrastructure

• Solution Manager 7.2• Focused Build SP1• Process Management• Test Suite

Initial Support Infrastructure

• Solution Manager 7.1• ITSM• Solution Documentation• Technical Monitoring

Test Suite

Arrow to show stacking and progression

Challenges we fight to Overcome

The Transformation that enables the change!

• Value driven approach to determine best IT solutions to deploy.

• Follow the SAP Activate Methodology to deploy solutions into the Boeing environment

• Align portfolio level backlog prioritization with team level work in process

• Leverage weighed shortest job first practices to deliver additional functionalities that focused on business improvement

• Embrace an agile development process that focuses on iterative real-time (Design, Build, Test, and Repeat)

The Transformation Approach that Delivers Value

Setting the Vision, Scope, and Direction with SAFeVision and strategic scope developed in the open and has the support from the top

Program Planning (Program Increments) are performed with a high level of transparency

Organizational structure was created and adopted to facilitate the benefits of SAFe

SAFe Deployment What we’ve done

• Train Lean-Agile Change Agents

• Trained Executives

• Identified Value Streams & ARTs

• Created the Implementation Plan

• Launched the ART• Coach ART Execution

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Move to QA

Release to Production On Demand

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Feature Sprint

Integrated Test Sprint

Business Driven By SAFe Activities

Deployments aligned with Activate

Release on Demand with less Errors!

Pre-Prepare Phase Lessons Learned

Vision and strategic scope developed in the open and has the support from the top

Ensure that you have strong executive approach to help drive the adoption, vision, and the new way of working

Program Planning (Program Increments) are performed with a high level of transparency

Try to conduct SAFe/Scrum meetings face-face if you can

Organizational structure was created and adopted to facilitate the benefits of SAFe

Forming scrum teams and then educating them to perform optimally is the key to continuous improvement and success

Phase I – Prepare: (Prepared our environment for operations)

• Upgraded Solution Manager to 7.2 and installed the Focused Build add-on

• Imported SAP Best Practices 1709 and gathered other relevant business processes to evaluate

• Integrated Aris with Solution Manager process management

• Deployed evaluation systems that are used to demo the functionalities of the best practices that were being evaluated

• Integrated existing project management approach and tools with Focused Build

• Solidified the release strategy and timeline and configured Solution Manager and Focused Build to accommodate our schedule

How we leveraged SAP Activate

Prepare Phase Lessons Learned

Upgraded Solution Manager 7.1 to 7.2 and installed the Focused Build add-on

Your core Solution Manager system should be properly installed, patched, and sizedbefore you begin Focused Build installation

Imported SAP Best Practices 1709 and gathered other relevant business processes to evaluate

Take into account early all business processes that will be considered during the evaluation. Best Practices or Existing.

Integrated Aris with Solution Manager process management

Ensure that you have the latest version of Aris installed to perform the synch with SolMan 7.2

Integrated existing project management approach and tools with Focused Build

Choose a PMO product that is certified to integrate with Solution Manager 7.2

Phase II – Explore: (Evaluated SAP Best Practices; Determine Project Scope)

• We identified initial obvious GAPs and requirements to fit our business needs

• Demonstrated system functionality leveraging test environment established during prepare phase

• Gather additional requirements based on system GAPs and required functionality

• Performed requirement analysis and completed work prioritization based on business needs

• Developed a build, test, and deployment plan that was followed to deploy gathered requirements

• Pulled together capable scrum teams that focused on delivering working software based on requirements and prioritized business needs

We leveraged S4HANA Best Practices

Explore Phase Lessons Learned

We identified initial obvious GAPs and requirements to fit our business needs

Try to limit requirement scope to mandatory functionality

Performed requirement analysis and completed work prioritization based on business needs

Ensure to establish a common approach to determining requirement and work prioritization

Phase III – Realize: (Design-Build-Test-Pre Deploy)

• Assign work packages for development to predefined teams and developers

• Design and scope work packages and begin development efforts in accordance with the planned sprints

• Conduct unit and formal cycle testing with the focus of obtaining business sign-off

• Cut-over plan created and reviewed

• Conduct final quality gate review and verify that the environment is ready for deployment

• Train end user community enabling efficiency with the new product’s functionality

We leveraged an Agile development approach

Realize Phase Lessons Learned

Design and scope work packages and begin development efforts in accordance with the planned sprints

Ensure all teams are estimating scope and work timeline the same way

Conduct unit and formal cycle testing with the focus of obtaining business sign-off

Conduct unit testing in development environment, formal testing cycles in QAS, and final UAT testing in Pre-Prod

Train end user community enabling efficiency in the new product’s functionality

Develop training with the assistance of the developer team if possible having developer create simulation recordings

Phase IV – Deploy: (Deploy solution into production environment)

• Final gate review is passed

• Final transport checks are completed

• Cut-over plan is executed

• Production functionality verification completed

We leveraged Solution Manager 7.2

Explore Phase Lessons Learned

Final gate review is passed Complete both business and technical reviews to ensure completeness

Production functionality verification completed

Verify as much functionality as you can without compromising data in system

Preparing for continued success

• Launch more ARTs to facilitate additional Value Streams

• Extend the Portfolio to accommodate required functionalities that enables our planned business growth

• Enhance/scale agile team operations that aligns directly with portfolio planning and operational goals

Scaling SAFe across the enterprise

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Scaling Solution Manager to Scale SAFe

End-End Planned Solution to Support Production

BPCA

Charm

TFS

DVM

CBTA

TDMS

Focused Insights

Summary: Question & Answers

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Improved Business Transformation with Solution

Manager 7.2 & Focused Build

Siddharth Mehta, Sr. SAP CoE Architect, Boeing

& Craig Brown, Sr. Focused Build Tool Coach, Xceleon, LLC

SESSION CODE: 10304

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