Duration of workflow projects

[Chris Scanlon]

Hello,
I did the same and ended up calling Addsion Wesley publishing. They do =
not
have this particular ISBN here in the US now or in print, meaning that =
it
may take awhile for this publisher to get a request to print this in =
the
English version here in the states. I am not aware of any other =
published
book for SAP Business Workflow, unless if anyone else knows otherwise
(please respond).
 
A book in this area/technology would be a real nice-to-have.
 
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Elizabeth Vail [SMTP:aevail at texas.net]
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 12:27 PM
> To:   SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: Duration of workflow projects
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> Do you know where I can get a copy of the book?  I have searched =
Amazon's
> and Border's websites without any success.
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> Thanks,
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> Elizabeth Vail
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> -----Original Message-----
>> From: SAP Workflow [mailto:Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of
> LANGE, BODO
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 8:41 AM
> To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: Duration of workflow projects
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> The title of the book is
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> SAP Business Workflow
> Concepts, Application, Development
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> there should be an english edition as well (I have the german one).
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> ISBN  3 8273 1483 6
> Addison Wesley
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> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Torsten Schnorpfeil [mailto:torsten at processflow.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 10:15 AM
> To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: AW: Duration of workflow projects
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> Hi Bodo,
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> what is the ISBN/title of the book you mentioned?
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> Torsten
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> -----Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht-----
> Von:    LANGE, BODO [SMTP:bodo.lange at sap.com]
> Gesendet am:    Mittwoch, 21. M=E4rz 2001 09:53
> An:     SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Betreff:        Re: Duration of workflow projects
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> Hi Stefan,
> There is a book on SAP Business Workflow, which contains a check list =
and
> questions that have to be answered in order to estimate the duration.
> If you develop from the scratch it, depending on complexity it can =
take
> you up to 4 weeks per process.
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> Bodo Lange
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> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Stefan Altendorfer [mailto:stefan.altendorfer at novaintegra.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 9:45 AM
> To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Duration of workflow projects
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> Hi all,
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> We are going to lead a project which has to implement a SAP Workflow =
based
> purchase requisition and invoice approval scenario. We will have a =
max. 5
> level approval scenario for purchase requisistions and a 2 level =
approval
> scenario for invoices and all employees (2000) will be users in SAP =
and in
> the workflow. We already have done the first Business Blueprint =
(showing
> alternatives and solutions) and we now have to tell the customer if =
their
> new goal to implement the whole workflow within 2 months is possible =
or
> not
> (I doubt it).
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> For this project we were given only one Workflow engineer (which
> unfortunately has no ABAP Knowledge) and if we have big luck there =
will be
> an additional one with more experience and ABAP knowledge, otherwise =
I
> will
> have to do the ABAP part. We will implement this solution on a 4.6B =
System
> and we'll use MS Outlook instead of the SAP Inbox.
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>> From your experience, can someone tell me how long an implementation =
of a
> standard workflow scenario approximately will take? I have heard =
times
> around 13 Months which in my humble oppinion is very long, but I am =
not a
> SAP workflow specialist at all (normaly working with CORBA, COM, XML =
and
> SAP).
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> Thanks,
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> Stefan Altendorfer