Define Approval Process Between Development and Functional Teams

Use

The purpose of this task is to define the approval procedures to be used between the development and the functional teams. It is important that the developers understand exactly what the functional team needs to develop. The functional team needs to be sure that the developers will produce the code that is needed to augment standard SAP.

The sooner there is agreement between the two teams of what needs to be produced, the sooner the development team can start their development process. Also if there is a miscommunication, the earlier it is caught, the easier it is to fix. It is important not to wait until integration test to be sure the developers are designing the correct process.

Procedure

  1. Determine which steps in the process should be approved by the functional team. The standard ones are after the definition procedure and after unit testing.
  2. Set up a meeting with the project manager and the functional leads to be sure that there is agreement on the approval steps. The functional leads need to be aware of the time that will be involved to handle the approvals.
  3. Define the change process, if any, to be used after each approval process. You might not want to start the change process until after approval of unit test results or it might be started as soon as the definition is approved.

Result

Documented approval process to be used by the development and functional teams.