SAP PROJECT SELF-CHECK
SAP Project Risk: 30-Point Checklist
Review early warning signs across governance, design, delivery, quality and adoption.
How to Use
Mark each statement as Confirmed, Attention Required or Unverified. Base the assessment on evidence and assign an owner and due date to every risk.
1. Governance & Decisions
Executive sponsor can make final budget, priority and Go/No-Go decisions
Business, IT and vendor responsibilities are documented
Open decisions have owners, deadlines and impact assessments
Critical decisions are recorded outside private chats
An integration owner coordinates multiple vendors
Quality, cost and schedule use consistent executive metrics
2. Scope, Requirements & Design
Requirements are prioritized as Must, Should and Could
Standards, extensions and surrounding systems use common criteria
End-to-end process impacts are assessed across departments
Major master-data ownership is defined
Design changes include cost, schedule and test impact
Out-of-scope and future items are documented
3. Schedule, Team & Delivery
Critical path and dependencies are visible
Business SMEs have time for testing, migration and training
Delayed work has a recovery plan
Progress is measured by business scenario, not vendor
Key-person backup and handover are prepared
Schedule is not protected by silently lowering quality
4. Quality, Testing & Migration
Tests cover real business scenarios and exceptions
Defects are assessed by business impact and workaround
Integration, system and UAT data quality is verified
Migration rehearsals use production-scale volumes
Counts, values and inventory are reconciled before and after migration
Go-Live and rollback criteria are agreed in advance
5. Adoption, Operations & Improvement
Training covers business change, not only screen operation
Super-user and first-line support are established
Post-go-live incidents are reviewed daily and weekly
Residual issues are formally handed to operations
Extensions, authorization and master changes remain governed
Benefits, issues and next improvements are reviewed within 30 days