Role of ABAP Consultant in an Upgrade Project

Hi Friends,
I'm an ABAP consultant, I've worked on Implementation Projects till now. Last one was on ECC 6.0.
I have been assigned to an upgrade project (from 4.6 to ECC 6.0).
So can anybody let me know what is the role and what are the responsibilites of an ABAP consultant in an Upgrade Project?

Hi,
Role of technical consultant:
1) Code fixes and bugs for upgrade objects
2) SPAU / SPDD corrections
3) removal of obselete statements by checking through the code inspector or EPC
4) replacing the BDC on enjoy transactions with BAPI
5) replacing the call transaction on obselet transactions with the corresponding new transactions.
Few of them are listed above..
Reward if useful
Regards
Shiva

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u2022     Transport upgrade relevant changes in Productive System
u2022     Final Conversion activities
u2022     Go-live
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Testing Management & Control:
Testing is extremely essential, test scripts should be actual, provided by business. Business should be involved as much as possible, to prevent testing of programs or functionalities that is no more used and ensure that programs and functionalities that are used are also tested. Actual and complete test scripts prevent losing time by ineffective testing and surprises after go-live.
Testing has to be done with different customers, domestic and foreign in different countries, to detect language dependent errors.
Print programs in MM (Purchase Order) and SD (Sales Order, Delivery, Invoice) need special attention, because they are very often and very much modified to suit special customer requirements.
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u2022     Are all necessary fields printed out
u2022     Are addresses right and not only with one item line, but with two, three or many.
u2022     Are the texts printed right, is with languages everything in order etc.
User acceptance test with real business roles should be done as extensively as possible, because what is functioning with consultant authorisations /sap-all might not be functioning with business roles with much less authorisations.
Release Strategy:
Follow a detailed and planned strategy to release transport requests relevant to Upgrade. The transport can start from the Sandbox System.But, before being imported to the Development System; the transport requests can be stored in a buffer. Similarly, transport from Development System to Quality Assurance System and from Quality assurance to Production system follows the same strategy.
Country Version Approach & Impact:
Country versions should be given special care to ensure that country-specific deviations and Taxes due to legal implications work well without any issues.
The Go Live Approach , Follow-up Activities, Critical Success Factors & Deliverables:
All development should be stopped. Just the minimum of changes absolutely necessary for support should be done, no other new modules or add-ons should be installed at the same time, otherwise the situation can become very complicated.
Dump analysis is very important to detect errors and these dumps should be taken care of on a daily basis, when testing and after go-live
User variants /batch job variants tend to disappear or become outdated.
Interfaces should be tested very carefully, by users themselves, because only they know what they are really doing. The interface might be functioning basically, but for example the search help for material is not functioning at all. It is difficult to compile all such details in test scripts.
For workflow, a really experienced expert should be involved. Otherwise the search for errors might cost lots of time.Many programs are involved, standard and customer objects and their interrelationship is difficult to see and debug, especially with background processes. And if workflow is not working after upgrade, it might be difficult for customer to find workaround.
It is good to keep a non-upgraded system until the go-live and intensive care period is over. It is quite often good to see, how customer programs were functioning before upgrade, copying of pre-upgrade programs or methods might be very useful to make customer programs run again, when they are using standard ABAP objects that are changed by upgrade or even no more existing after upgrade. And users tend to claim after upgrade that functionalities are no more working, which never have been functioning, to get them without a change request. All these should be taken care of.
Hence, I believe that the above mentioned methodology and key points would suffice to ensure a planned and successful Upgrade without any major surprises or chaos.
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