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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Hi Phil,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I don't know if you were referring to my responses when you talk
about "consultants who can dictate terms of reference". This is not
the attitude I would like to convey, my apologies if it came across that way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>This has nothing to do with being a consultant or not. I would
take the same stance if I were working for the company concerned. In fact, it
was also thanks to a disagreement with my bosses over similar ‘strategic
issues’ that I fled my last full-time employment :-) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>It is a simple fact of life that none of us know everything. The
tricky part can be knowing when to ask for help (I’m not talking about
questions on the WUG). When the stakes are small, we get by with learning on
the job. With 50-100 workflows however there is a lot more at stake which is
why I was very firm in my suggestion that Ramanan get outside help in. You can
slice this any way you'd like, it can only benefit the project in terms of
cost, time, frustration, knowledge. It would take a very shortsighted project
manager to disagree. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Take your suggestion about building a plan as an example: That
could benefit enormously from having someone with serious project management
experience get him started on mapping out all the assumptions. The problem is
that all these assumptions interact with each other on a project of that scale,
and that in itself can be a major undertaking. Many of these questions cannot
be answered over the WUG, it NEEDS someone to talk to people and get an idea of
the way they work etc. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Cheers, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Mike<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Kisloff, Philip B<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 16 January 2008 15:11<br>
<b>To:</b> SAP Workflow Users' Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: Resource planning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Hi Ramanan</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>I have a lot of empathy with your situation. You have been tasked
to come up with a plan for a major workflow implementation. Some elements are
known, some are unknown. It's complex, and you feel you may get some of it
wrong. How you must envy those consultants who can dictate terms of
reference, or else walk away. Fair play to them. Then there those of us
who have to play with the hand we're dealt. Uncertain
requirements, limited resources - the usual project scenario.</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>If I was in your position, I would do the following: Build a plan
around a clearly written set of assumptions. Make it clear that if these
assumptions are wrong, then so will be the plan. Get buy-in around these
assumptions. It helps if they are realistic, and can be justified. Monitor your
assumptions constantly, and be quick to point out when they diverge from
reality (a blame-free culture helps). When your assumptions need
changing, be quick to amend the plan, and communicate that. Get buy-in from the
project sponsors around this approach. It shouldn't be too difficult (a
blame-free culture helps). Have a plan B for less ambitious scenarios.
Have this plan agreed, too.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Expect to be blamed when things go wrong - you had a choice whether
to take this on, right ? Just remember what Count von Moltke said -<em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>No [battle] plan survives contact with
the enemy ;)</span></em></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Good luck, and let us know how it progresses.</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>best regards</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Phil</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> -----Original Message-----<br>
<b>From:</b> sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu]<b>On
Behalf Of </b>Srinivasan Ramanan<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 16 January 2008 13:43<br>
<b>To:</b> SAP Workflow Users' Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: Resource planning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Dear
Mike,<br>
I do understand all the points in your e-mail. I completely agree that more
effort put on planning makes the steps easy in realization.<br>
The situation is I have is:<br>
<br>
We expect that there will be 100 workflows in the ECC6.0<br>
We do also have some workflows running at differect geographical locations. The
count is 50. <br>
We just doubled it up that when all locations get into ECC6.0 , we predicted
that count to go to 100.<br>
We
have 4 personnels who already developed and are administering the current 50.<br>
But
please bear in mind that some WFs may not be upto best practice, thats why
needed some resources to bring these current to a best practice levels and also
contribute for newer ones.<br>
<br>
Having said all that, whats on the planning side. No Functional specifications
exist for the TO BE workflows, which I have numbered as 100.<br>
We expect them to be completed by Feb 2008 end.<br>
March is the kickoff for realization. Actual work begins in April.<br>
<br>
Now all the requird resource allocation is started, but in progress. I am in
the process of estimating the needs for WF and I know I have 4 personnels. It
always take some time to complete the re-trainng in-house personnels or
recruit new developers.<br>
<br>
<strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>So I have started
my resource planning I think very well ahead ( as you said no numbers will be
whispered until a meaningful estimate is in hand ), and I hope to come up with
a better resolution by end of Feb 2008. </span></strong><br>
<br>
What I really meant by empirical is a kind of stastical. I know that
statistical also sometimes not considered scientific. You can not start
planning at meticulous level like ( 175 mins for a development of WF task
with ABAP coding of 1500 lines ). We will end up with very good perfectly
executable plan, but would have missed the bus ( ie. deadlines ). So I have no
option but to trade of some accuracy in my estimate to be in the game.<br>
<br>
with sincere regards<br>
Ramanan<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From: asap@workflowconnections.com<br>
To: sap-wug@mit.edu<br>
Subject: RE: Resource planning<br>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:28:09 +0000<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><sigh> I just told you I wouldn’t so much as whisper an
estimate without about a month’s research. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Not even a day later you have a proposal. A proposal that
ignores the majority of what I said before. </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I take back my statement about suggesting you get an Experienced
consultant in. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Instead, I STRONGLY RECOMMEND you get an EXPERIENCED consultant
to help you out. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Planning is not a game. It has a far bigger influence on cost
and success than the build itself (which should take up less than half the
time). SAP only charge a couple of thousand dollars per day. I say “only”
because they’ll save you tens of thousands (If you listen to them of course).
How so? By not having to scrap or redo parts of a badly planned project, never
mind the damage to your reputation. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>How do I know it’s already badly planned? See first two
sentences of this email. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Please understand that I’m not having a go at you, but your two
posts make it clear that you need a reality check. Not giving you an answer is
the most helpful we can be. Anyone that gives you estimates on this list will
do more harm than good because they will probably be wrong (Ask on SDN and you
will get plenty of those).</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Even though the WUG ranks just behind Wikipedia in knowledge
content, there are just too many factors to do this with the help of a mailing
list. Feel free to ask about specifics as you work your way through
requirements gathering. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Good luck, </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Mike</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>PS: Your use of the word ‘empirical’ is the exact opposite of
its meaning. Your values are certainly not based on facts and observation. </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu
[mailto:sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Srinivasan Ramanan<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 15 January 2008 15:01<br>
<b>To:</b> SAP Workflow Users' Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: Resource planning</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Thanks Mike,<br>
I appreciate your inputs. Its really difficult to answer this question. <br>
What I did is: ( Since I am in the position to answer this to my company as an
employee of the company )<br>
I assumed these followings:<br>
10 complex workflows ( having more than 20 tasks )<br>
30
medium (
10 to 20 tasks )<br>
60 simple
( less than 10 tasks )<br>
<br>
It is decided to implement HR just for Organizational units purposes. It helps
both roles and authorization management. Hence agent assignments could be not
that complex.<br>
<br>
Having a time line of 6 months only for these work, I am proposing:<br>
6 Personnels for development over six months period<br>
4
to 6 Personnels for maintain and administer - for support after go live<br>
<br>
Has anyone else could share some ideas if you have executed projects even not
to this magnitude, but with some 10 - 20 workflows development. I need some
info on how many personnels, how many workflows and how many months. It will be
kind of easy to extrapolate. I do understand that it will only be an empirical
value for resource planning. But we can start with min. resource and continue
to agument as and when the workflows start development phase.<br>
<br>
regards<br>
Ramanan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From: asap@workflowconnections.com<br>
To: sap-wug@mit.edu<br>
Subject: RE: Resource planning<br>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:08:07 +0000<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Hello Ramanan, </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>That’s a pretty major project, and there is a good reason all
projects go through a planning phase. Faced with the same question I would
estimate at least a month’s work to come up with an answer that’s anywhere near
realistic. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>For starters there are many factors beyond workflow that will
influence your requirements, such as size and makeup of the overall project
team, length of project, willingness to invest in the right skills. Are you
going to employ 4+ years’ experienced consultants, or find ABAPers who have
built the occasional WF, or train up inhouse staff? </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Next you have the workflows themselves. I’ve built approval
workflows taking from two days to over a year. Even specific workflow scenarios
are no measure: an invoice approval can take 10 days at one client and 5 months
at another (also based on personal experience). </span><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>You ask how many administrators? What sort of total volumes do
you expect? (You obviously need to volume estimates of each of the
workflows..). Do you use HR? More experienced resources building the WFs will
pay off in reduced maintenance. The workflow I mentioned above created jobs for
two administrators – just looking after the one WF.</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Based on the info in your question, I would seriously suggest
you engage an Experienced (with a capital ‘E’) consultant for at least a few
days to get you started on answering it. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>If you insist on a guess: 50% chance you need between 5 and 10
people, 50% chance you need more or less than that. Flip a coin to see which
one. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Cheers, </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Mike</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu
[mailto:sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Srinivasan Ramanan<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 14 January 2008 21:58<br>
<b>To:</b> sap-wug@mit.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Resource planning</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Dear WUG,<br>
There are 100 workflows expected to be up and running in ECC6.0<br>
Please consider that it is not know exactly what are the workflows now.<br>
But please consider that workflows will be used for create and maintain of all
major master data objects and pretty much for regular task distributions like
PO release, invoice processing etc.,<br>
<br>
My questions are:<br>
<br>
How many personnels are required at the Development phase for these 100
workflows?<br>
<br>
How may personnels are required for 'maintain' and 'administer' the workflows? <br>
<br>
Anyone who worked at this level, please I value your inputs very much.<br>
Please respond with your experiences and emprical calculations.<br>
<br>
thanks in advance.<br>
Ramanan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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