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The Sign-Off Table

A podcast for the go/no-go call

Somebody has to signthe go‑live.

The Sign-Off Table sits down with the leaders who put their name on the biggest ERP releases there are: the ECC to S/4HANA go-live, the global rollout, the cutover weekend that can’t slip. What they checked, what kept them up at night, and how they knew it was ready.

Hosted by Matt Angerer · 24 years in SAP testing · New episodes every other week

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Releases on

  • SAP
  • Oracle
  • Workday
  • ServiceNow

Leading with SAP S/4HANA and the move off ECC.

Who sits at the table

The people whose name is on the release.

Not vendors, not influencers. Practitioners and executives who have carried the risk of a big ERP release and lived to explain it.

  1. 01

    The CIO who answers to the board if order-to-cash stops on Monday morning.

  2. 02

    The program director who owns the S/4HANA business case and the go-live date it promised.

  3. 03

    The release manager who runs the cutover runbook at 2 a.m. and makes the go/no-go call.

  4. 04

    The testing CoE lead whose evidence everyone else is signing on.

  5. 05

    The process owner who signs UAT for finance, supply chain or sales, and lives with the result.

How it works

21 thoughtful questions. Your expertise, front and center.

See all 21 questions
  1. 1

    Apply in two minutes

    Fill in the short guest survey below: who you are, the platform you work on and the story you would bring.

  2. 2

    Get the questions ahead

    If it is a fit, Matt sends the 21 questions and picks the ones that suit your story. No curveballs, no product pitches.

  3. 3

    Record in your browser

    About 45 minutes, remote, in a studio link that records you locally in high quality. Headphones and a quiet room are all you need.

  4. 4

    Share what you know

    We edit, publish audio and video, cut clips for LinkedIn and tag you, so your expertise reaches the people who need it.

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Hear the format first

Listen to an episode of The Sign-In Table

Matt’s sister show uses the same straightforward interview style: thoughtful questions, plenty of room to answer, and the guest’s knowledge front and center. Give one episode a listen and you’ll know exactly what to expect.

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Field guides · Start here

Building an SAP Testing Center of Excellence

Five parts, written for anyone who will be asked to sign off on an S/4HANA go-live.

All guides

  1. Building an SAP Testing CoE · Part 1

    How to build an SAP Testing Center of Excellence before your S/4HANA move

    Why the ECC deadline makes this the year to stand up an SAP Testing CoE, what it owns, how mature yours is today and a 90-day plan to get it running.

    Matt Angerer · 11 min read

  2. Building an SAP Testing CoE · Part 2

    The SAP Testing CoE operating model: roles, RACI and how to fund it

    Hub-and-spoke is the model that works for SAP. Here are the roles you need, who is accountable for what and three ways to pay for it that survive budget season.

    Matt Angerer · 9 min read

  3. Building an SAP Testing CoE · Part 3

    Testing an ECC to S/4HANA migration: a phase-by-phase plan

    Greenfield, brownfield or selective data transition: what each approach means for testing, where test activities fall across SAP Activate and what S/4HANA changes you must test for.

    Matt Angerer · 13 min read

Beyond regression testing

Quality across the whole AI-driven lifecycle

AI-DLC, the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle introduced by AWS, puts AI in charge of planning and people in charge of approval, and brings quality into the room on day one. Here is how it fits together.

Phase 1

Inception

What are we building, and why?

Mob Elaboration

  • · User stories
  • · Non-functional requirements
  • · Risks
  • · Measurement criteria
  • · Units and suggested Bolts

Quality

QA is in the room. Risks and measurement criteria are defined before any code.

Phase 2

Construction

How do we build it?

Mob Construction

  • · Domain design
  • · Logical design
  • · Code and unit tests
  • · Deployment units

Quality

AI generates functional, security and performance tests; people review the scenarios; AI runs them and proposes fixes.

Phase 3

Operations

Is it running well?

AI-assisted operations

  • · Deployment
  • · Observability
  • · Runbook actions

Quality

AI reads telemetry and proposes runbook actions; people approve before anything runs.

Each phase hands richer context to the next. Artifacts are saved as shared context and stay traceable both ways.

AI-DLC’s three phases. Source: AWS AI-DLC method definition.
The full AI-DLC explainer

Your host

Been there. Signed off on that.

Matt Angerer has spent 24 years in SAP: SAP IV&V for the U.S. Army, Navy and Defense Logistics Agency, global test lead on SAP rollouts for Honda, Mettler-Toledo and Tory Burch, and nearly five years leading SAP test automation customer success at Tricentis.

Matt’s full story
  • U.S. Army
  • U.S. Navy
  • Defense Logistics Agency
  • Honda
  • Unilever
  • Mettler-Toledo
  • Duke Energy
  • Norfolk Southern
  • Accenture
  • SM Energy
  • Tory Burch
  • Nationwide FinancialNationwide Financial
  • Avon Products
  • Emerson Network Powernow Vertiv
  • EchoStar

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