Project teams need all players, even the scruffy ones
Join Ed and Thomas in this whirlwind episode that covers a wide range of great news and topics in the wide world of enterprise software. They are also joined by Craig Cmehil to discuss his new team and role within SAP.
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Listen in with your Enterprise Geeks friends in this content gold episode where they host a roundtable discussion regarding IT Project Roles. This week, hosts Thomas and Ed are joined with experts and fellow eGheads Jon Reed of JonERP.com and Leonardo De Araujo of Beyond Technologies. The discussion aims to clarify traditional Functional and Technical roles as well as the newcomer roles of BPX and Solution Architect.
This episode was originally planned to cover both the topics of the SAP Community Developer License and the IT Project Roles roundtable. Both sessions had so much great content, we wanted to make them both available separately in their entirety. Because of this decision, we have split this episode into two separate parts. You can check out the first part of this episode here.
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06:45 (Jon) Is BPX a new role or a refinement of existing roles?
12:33 (Leo) Clearing up the “Functional” role?
16:05 (Jon) Origins of the term BPX
19:46 (Tom) Does SAP use BPX in their own environment?
24:55 (Ed) The importance of a business process champion
26:53 (Ed) The parallels of the BPX and the Solution Architect
28:25 (Tom) Why you need to value technical skills and technical people
31:25 (Leo & Jon) Where functionals and technicals fit in the hierarchy and why there is a growing need for more senior roles like BPX and Solution Architect
37:20 (Ed) Where do Project Managers fit into the picture?
41:10 (Thomas) All projects are not created equal
43:05 (Leo) The Y Path
46:27 (Jon) Defining and choosing meaningful career paths
48:35 (Ed & Jon) Enterprise Architect vs. Solution Architect
51:55 (Thomas) Standardization vs. Customization
54:53 (Leo) Don’t forget about Change Management
56:42 Final thoughts from the crew
61:18 – Wrap up with Apple Tablet fever and Football fanatics
While some of us eGheads were attending RIA Hacker Night during TechEd, some of our fellow eGheads that lean more toward the Business Process Expert side of the house were also busy with their own evening event. This other evening event was the Process Design Slam.
I had the opportunity to sit down and interview Marilyn Pratt and Twan van den Broek about this exciting event and how in the future we might be able to bring the Hacker Night and Process Slam closer together.
Listen to this fun episode as hosts Ed Herrmann & Thomas Jung just shoot the breeze on a mix of topics ranging from hot SAP issues to laid back, general geekiness. They also throw down a polestar challenge to all of the fellow eGheads.
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Can SAP leverage their newfound transparency or will it just come back to haunt them?
The hits just keep on coming! This week we pulled in another great guest, Jon Reed. Jon is a fellow SAP mentor and popular blogger from JonERP.com. Listen in to hear his great perspectives on the current and upcoming SAP job market trends, as well as some more thoughts on the future of SAP certifications.
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