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Business Integration, Technology, and Infrastructure (BITI) Think Tank: How to Upskill as an SAP Developer

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. 

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