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Academy · Release & Change · 200 Practitioner

Planning Around SAP's Release and Maintenance Cadence

Builds an annual release calendar that respects SAP's own clocks: the two-year S/4HANA base release cycle with feature and support package stacks, twice-yearly public edition upgrades, continuous BTP delivery, monthly Security Patch Day and the end-of-maintenance dates for SAP ECC, Solution Manager and Process Orchestration. Shows where authoritative dates live, how to size testing for each event and how to publish and maintain the calendar.

  • 45 minutes
  • 5 lessons + quiz
  • Release / Change Manager, Test Lead / Test Manager, Program / PMO Lead
Start the course
  1. 01SAP's cadences: the clocks you plan around9 min
  2. 02Finding authoritative dates9 min
  3. 03Building the annual release calendar8 min
  4. 04Planning around end-of-maintenance dates10 min
  5. 05Publishing and maintaining the calendar9 min
  6. QZCourse quiz12 questions

What you’ll be able to do

  • Summarize SAP release cadences for public cloud, private cloud and on-premise, and SAP BTP
  • Locate authoritative release and maintenance dates and record their sources
  • Build an annual calendar with freezes and regression windows sized to each event
  • Plan for maintenance end dates such as SAP ECC, Solution Manager and Process Orchestration
  • Communicate and maintain the calendar for different stakeholders

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