Practice ( learn ) workflow at office on my system?

Hi Workflow masters,
this is the first time am ENTERING into WORLD of WORKFLOW...where i have been looking for.
i am a ABAP programmer where i have been doing it for 5years am ABAP CIRTIFIED...and now i want to LEARN : WF.
at my office we have workflow...and my query is...
can i practice the workflow on it...if i do will i cause any problems to it?
i went through your forums and i have enough INFO to learn WF - self ....but once i start will i be causing any problems?
i have a linke which is : Workflows for Dummies - Introduction(Part I) & (partII) if i follow this will it cause any problems?
can i have some info with regards to it...
i am going through a SAP METERIAL which is  : BIT601.
I hope this is the right material to start...looking forward to your replies...
thank you,
pasala.

Hi,
You are on the right track. There are lots of tutorials in SDN & Internet - just spend some time on searching them. BIT601 is also fine for learning, but I think that you cannot do all the exercises since the require some custom objects, which you won't have in your system.
You will not break anything, if you don't modify the existing workflows. So just create new workflows from scratch, or copy the existing ones and modify the copies - the same rules apply as for example as with any ABAP object. => Do not modify anything, unless you are sure what you are doing.
Regards,
Karri

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