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Academy · SAP Test Management & TCoE · 400 Expert

SAP Testing Center of Excellence Business Case and Charter: Cost of Quality, Funding Models and Sponsorship

Goes deeper than the TCoE overview in sap-tst-401 on the first hard step: getting a permanent SAP testing capability approved and funded. You forecast the change that needs testing, baseline today's cost of quality from your own data, build a benefit model with conservative, expected and optimistic cases, choose a funding model that keeps shared assets alive, write a charter with clear decision rights and exclusions, and win sponsorship with a one-page pitch and answers to the usual objections.

  • 63 minutes
  • 6 lessons + quiz
  • Test Lead / Test Manager, Program / PMO Lead, Process Owner
Start the course
  1. 01Why SAP needs a permanent testing capability10 min
  2. 02Baselining the cost of quality17 min
  3. 03The benefit model9 min
  4. 04Funding models9 min
  5. 05Writing the charter9 min
  6. 06Winning sponsorship9 min
  7. QZCourse quiz12 questions

What you’ll be able to do

  • Baseline current testing cost, effort and defect leakage across SAP projects and releases
  • Build a cost-of-quality and benefit model for a TCoE with conservative assumptions
  • Compare central, project-funded and chargeback funding models
  • Define TCoE mandate, scope of services, decision rights and exclusions in a charter
  • Secure sponsorship and agree success measures with IT and business leaders
  • Present the business case and handle typical objections

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