Think Tanks con­nect you with peers nav­i­gat­ing the same chal­lenges and oppor­tu­ni­ties as you. ASUG will facil­i­tate an inter­ac­tive peer-to-peer exchange where solu­tions are shared for top­ics spe­cif­ic to your role and interest. 

Bring your ideas and links, and we’ll share togeth­er. Lead­ing the dis­cus­sion are vol­un­teers Karin Tillot­son and Kris­ten Den­nis , along with ASUG SAP point of con­tact Thomas Jung. 

The for­mat for Mon­day, June 29 at 10 a.m. CT will include: 

• Upskilling strate­gies 

• Vir­tu­al learning 

• Learn­ing tech­nolo­gies to pre­pare for SAP S/4HANA (SAP Fiori, etc.) 

• Web devel­op­ment 

• Devel­op­ment for SAP Cloud Platform 

• UX devel­op­ment 

• DevOps 

• Bring your ideas and links, and we’ll share together. 

Gain vis­i­bil­i­ty into the chal­lenges and suc­cess­es oth­er SAP cus­tomers are expe­ri­enc­ing, and acquire new ideas for real-world solutions. 

If you are expe­ri­enc­ing chal­lenges and would like to lead your own case study, fill out the sur­vey here. 

Think Tank Insights:

• Today’s SAP devel­op­ers have so many choic­es and options in areas to upskill that it’s easy to become over­whelmed or insu­lar. The worst thing you can do is not expand your horizon.
• Gen­er­al advice: Don’t lock your­self in to what you’ve been doing, just because that’s what it has been. 
• The chal­lenge is keep­ing the team up skilled when you can’t set aside any for­mal time for that to hap­pen. Every­one is try­ing to fig­ure out how to make edu­ca­tion and train­ing more bite-sized.

• Under­stand­ing the busi­ness is much hard­er to learn than a new lan­guage or devel­op­ment tool.
• What your com­pa­ny can do for you: your com­pa­ny has to see val­ue in what you’re doing.
• How do we give IT orga­ni­za­tions, where we only have 20 min­utes to learn, to give them a month to upskill people? 
• Archi­tects and devel­op­ers have to find the time to do some research on their own.
• Com­pa­nies that have been most suc­cess­ful are the ones who set aside time for their employ­ees to do their own skunk-work projects, but it’s hard if your com­pa­ny doesn’t have the cul­ture that will allow for that. 

Think Tank Links:

• https://​form​.jot​form​.com/​A​S​U​G​/​2​0​1​9​-​T​h​i​n​k​-​T​a​n​k​-​S​i​gn-Up
• Reg­is­ter for this upcom­ing web­cast next month: https://​www​.asug​.com/​e​v​e​n​t​s​/​n​e​x​t​-​m​a​j​o​r​-​r​e​l​e​a​s​e​-​o​f​-​s​a​p​-​b​u​s​i​n​e​s​s​-​c​l​i​e​n​t​-​w​i​t​h​-​i​n​t​e​g​r​a​t​e​d​-​f​i​o​r​i​-​l​a​u​n​c​h​p​a​d​-​a​n​d​-​s​a​p​-​g​u​i​-​f​o​r​-​w​i​ndows
• Reg­is­ter for this upcom­ing web­cast next month: SAP Code Vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty Ana­lyz­er https://​www​.asug​.com/​e​v​e​n​t​s​/​s​a​p​-​c​o​d​e​-​v​u​l​n​e​r​a​b​i​l​i​t​y​-​a​n​a​lyzer

• One more link — web­cast replay https://​www​.asug​.com/​e​v​e​n​t​s​/​f​r​e​e​-​e​d​u​c​a​t​i​o​n​a​l​-​r​e​s​o​u​r​c​e​s​-​f​o​r​-​y​o​u​r​-​s​a​p​-​d​e​v​e​l​o​p​m​e​n​t​-team
• August web­cast — Adobe Forms with SAP Cloud Plat­form https://​www​.asug​.com/​e​v​e​n​t​s​/​s​a​p​-​i​n​t​e​r​a​c​t​i​v​e​-​f​o​r​m​s​-​b​y​-​a​d​o​b​e​-​a​n​d​-​s​a​p​-​c​l​o​u​d​-​p​l​a​t​f​o​r​m​-​f​o​r​m​s​-​b​y​-​adobe
• https://​xkcd​.com/​2309/
• https://​devel​op​ers​.sap​.com/​t​u​t​o​r​i​a​l​-​n​a​v​i​g​a​t​o​r​.html
• https://​devel​op​ers​.sap​.com/​t​r​i​a​l​s​-​d​o​w​n​l​o​a​d​s​.html

• https://​twit​ter​.com/​S​A​Pdevs
• https://​bit​.ly/​l​i​v​e​-​s​t​r​e​a​m​-​times
• https://​open​.sap​.com/