Implementing ERP solutions is a tricky business. For all implementations, the customer project manager is very important. He or she usually has a whole bouquet of critical tasks that need to be taken care of. In larger projects these tasks are often shared in a Project Management Office (PMO) by Topic Experts. 2BCS has organized and managed many project offices and has identified the three best practices described in this article.

Best Practice implementations of business applications highly focus on testing. Testing takes place in numerous cycles with increasing complexity. Testing depends on numerous other aspects of the implementation such as the development, such as data migration and the level of know-how. Successful test managers focus on the three Best Practices described in this article.