Re: BPCS Upgrade Test Support Staff Challenges

[DAsmussen@xxxxxxx]

Al,

In a message dated 2/13/99 12:39:38 PM Eastern Standard Time,
MacWheel99@aol.com writes:

<<snip>>
> Is this BPCS/36 "experience" typical of what to expect on BPCS/400?  I told
my
>  staff & management that in my opinion the most cost effective way to
implement
>  PTF-2 would be for me to work on merging it into the education environment,
>  then schedule Conference Room Pilots like we did for the Y2K conversion.
So
>  far, no concensus has been reached on this, and my marching orders have
been
>  to continue adding to the collection of modifications.
>  
>  Thanks in advance for your insight

Your experience serves you well.  This wasn't the case until V6, but those
pilots should certainly be part of any implementation of new code.  Even SSA
says to not load BMR's that you don't absolutely need due to the possibility
of damaging working functions.  Newer BPCS has too many decision trees based
upon installed products to trust new code at face value.  With V6 we've seen
stuff that worked fine for people not running QMS or, say, container control,
that failed if those features were in use.  Test, test, test, and then test
again...

JMHO,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"Champions keep playing until they get it right." -- Billie Jean King
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