A Release Manager in Vegas – Part 3 – My sessions
Start with my first blog, “A Release Manager in Vegas” for the background.
Below is the list of sessions I’m currently planning on attending. These, of course, are subject to change, as my needs or whims may change.
| Session ID | Title | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 17158 | Developer Garage | |
| EVENT1 | Customer Keynote | Steve Lucas |
| EVENT2 | Technology Keynote | Bjoern Goerke |
| EXP17356 | ‘Build SAP Like a Factory’ with Agile Lifecycle Management (Any tips on how to improve our relatively new Agile process would be welcome) | Dominique Noth |
| EXP17467 | ABAP Test Cockpit in action with Doctor ZedGe and abap2xlsx (I know my ABAP team has their eye on this, and will be talking about it. I know my testing team would love for ABAP to have better tools. Seems like a good one to attend) | Ivan Femia |
| ITM100 | Holistic IT Management for Hybrid Solutions (We need to know how to better manage changes in a hybrid cloud/on premise solution. Also, John K.) | John Krakowski |
| ITM105 | Change Control Management – Maximize the Value for Hybrid Scenarios (I’m not 100% sure this “Hybrid” is the same as what they mean in ITM100, but in any case, Change control in increasingly complex environments is always something of interest) | Tobias Hauk |
| ITM108 | Functional Test Automation with SAP Solution Manager 7.1 (I’d like to learn more so I can have educated discussions with the testing team, which is pretty important when you’re a Release Manager) | Marcus Wefers |
| ITM109 | Test Automation with SAP Test Acceleration and Optimization and More (Another opportunity to understand what the testing team is talking about) | Marcus Wefers |
| ITM110 | SAP HANA Platform Lifecycle Management (Get more HANA exposure) | sivagopal modadugula |
| ITM116 | Using ChaRM, CSOL, and Retrofit to Support a Dual Project and Production (Always good to learn from what others are doing in the real world) | Lovnish Mahajan |
| ITM162 | Managing and Transporting SAP HANA Objects (This is probably the one I most need right now, because we’re doing HANA and I’ll have to have a recommendation (or at least understand the recommendation of the consultants) | Dirk Marwinski | Ralf Belger | Ron Silberstein |
| ITM200 | Agile Lifecycle Management and Two Value Releases per Year (Any tips on how to improve our relatively new Agile process would be welcome, plus it seems to be about the “Two Value Releases per Year” document I always have in front of me. And having Evan involved is always a good sign) | Evan Stoddard |
| ITM208 | Customer Transports Integration in Software Maintenance Process (I’ll admit that I’m not 100% sure what “customer transports” are, but it still looks like something I should try to attend. — Downtime minimized, SUM, TMS, ChaRM, Table Conversions — They’re talking my language.) | Martin Herrmann |
| ITM209 | Using SAP Solution Manager to Ensure Smooth SAP HANA Operations (Mixes the HANA I need to learn about with Solution Manager that I’m supposed to be an expert on. I should probably try to be there) | Andrea Schuhmann |
| ITM215 | IT Service Management Best Practices in SAP Solution Manager (Always good to expand my ITSM knowledge) | David Birkenbach |
| ITM242 | Lessons Learned: nZDM-Based ERP SPS Update and Custom Transports Rollout (Anything we could do to lesson the pain of an ERP SPS Update would be nice) | Joshua Zhang |
| ITM261 | From Business Requirement to Solution with SAP Solution Manager (Always good to learn more about Solution Manager because I’m supposed to be one of the “experts”) | Tim Steuer | Wulff-Heinrich Knapp | Benjamin Schneider |
| ITM264 | Adjust and Test Only What Matters with New Scope and Effort Analyzer (Setting best practices for planning upgrades is one of my tasks. I’m also representing our testing team. I think it would be good to learn more about this) | Rajeev Gollapudi | Martina Kaplan | Tony de Thomasis |
| ITM300 | How to Plan Changes of Your Business Suite Systems – An E2E Process (Would love to hear a different perspective) | Wolf Hengevoss |
| ITM303 | SAP Solution Manager ALM Focus at Terumo BCT (Always good to learn from what others are doing in the real world) | Srinivasu Garapati |
| ITM304 | ASUG Solution Manager Influence Council and Community Meeting Update (This is the one to get me all excited about what’s coming up for Solution Manager. Plus, John K.) | John Krakowski |
| ITM825 | SAP Solution Manager Road Map Session: What’s the Strategic Direction? (Another one to get excited about what’s coming up. Do I need two? Oh well, Evan’s always really good also) | Evan Stoddard |
| IZ03 | Quality Assurance Solutions from SAP (LoadRunner & Quality Center perk my ears up) | |
| IZ08 |
SAP Solution Manager (I’m not too impressed by the description. It looks like someone strung together a bunch of buzzwords without much regard to whether or not it means anything to the average reader. However, it is Solution Manager, so I’ll at least stop by to see what they’re talking about) |
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| UXP200 | Overview About SAP UI Technologies and When to Choose What (People keep talking about these and I have no idea what they’re talking about. I don’t like not understanding the conversations) | Michael Falk | Johannes Wasserfall |
It looks like I will also be attending a Birds of a Feather session Wednesday at 5:00 pm, titled "Change and/or Release Management in the Real world." Actually, I'm leading it. 😆 If anyone else is interested in this topic, please try to check it out. It would be sad (and not a very productive use of my time) to be a flock of one. 🙁