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8. Missing peer reviews
Peer reviews help refine work-products and deliverables. Peer
reviews also provide independent verification and give the end
customers or SMEs an opportunity to provide feedback during the
early stages of the SAP implementation. Peer reviews can occur at
many junctures during the implementation of SAP for tasks such as
filling out CI (Customer Input) templates, drafting test cases,
creating functional design specs, development of business process
flow diagrams, documenting BPPs, code walk-through, etc.
Inexplicably many SAP projects do not engage in the practice of peer
reviews or have any templates or forms for documenting peer review
feedback. The end result is that often times the end users have
complaints about the quality of test cases during the UAT (User’s
Acceptance Test) and about how a particular process was customized
in SAP versus how the process was previously executed in the end
user’s legacy systems.
Test managers should solicit the feedback, input and even the
sign-off from the SMEs for the various testing artifacts as soon as
possible or as the testing artifacts are produced. It is in the best
interests of the test team to identify problems with the testing
artifacts as soon as possible as opposed to weeks before the SAP
cut-over or SAP go-live dates.
 
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