Standard Changes, Automated Execution

{
  "id": "ams-007",
  "title": "Standard Changes, Automated Execution",
  "hook": "Speed in SAP AMS doesn’t come from shortcuts. It comes from removing choice where choice is unnecessary.",
  "idea": "A large share of SAP changes are predictable, low-risk, and repetitive. Treat them as products: standardized, automated, and boring.",
  "sap_reality": {
    "typical_candidates": [
      "Role assignments and removals",
      "Pricing and condition record updates",
      "Master data value mappings (MDG/S4)",
      "Report variants and layouts",
      "Job scheduling parameter changes"
    ],
    "problem": "Handled as ‘special cases’, they waste senior attention and create inconsistency."
  },
  "standard_change_model": {
    "definition": "A change with known impact, known test steps, known rollback, and zero creativity required.",
    "assets": [
      "Pre-approved checklist",
      "Automated validation",
      "One-click rollback or clear reversal steps"
    ]
  },
  "execution_flow": [
    "Request via chat using a strict template",
    "Automatic classification as standard change",
    "Copilot validates completeness and risk",
    "Automated or semi-automated execution",
    "Post-change verification and confirmation"
  ],
  "automation": {
    "copilot_moves": [
      "Validate input against SAP constraints before execution",
      "Generate transports or execution scripts where possible",
      "Run post-change checks automatically"
    ],
    "human_role": [
      "Approve exceptions",
      "Own edge cases",
      "Improve the standard when it breaks"
    ]
  },
  "rules": [
    "If a standard change causes an incident, it is paused and fixed.",
    "If the same manual change is done three times, it becomes a standard.",
    "No emergency path for things that can be standardized."
  ],
  "why_this_is_better_and_cheaper": [
    "Lower error rate through consistency",
    "Faster cycle time without risk",
    "Senior experts focus on real problems"
  ],
  "anti_patterns_to_kill": [
    "Emergency handling of routine requests",
    "Manual execution of well-known steps",
    "Treating repetition as ‘normal workload’"
  ],
  "metrics_that_force_discipline": [
    "Percent of changes executed via standard path",
    "Failure rate of standard changes",
    "Average cycle time vs non-standard changes"
  ],
  "design_question": [
    "Why are smart people still doing dumb repetitive work?"
  ],
  "meta": {
    "schema": "dkharlanau.dataset.byte",
    "schema_version": "1.1",
    "dataset": "ams",
    "source_project": "cv-ai",
    "source_path": "ams/ams-007.json",
    "generated_at_utc": "2026-02-03T14:33:32+00:00",
    "creator": {
      "name": "Dzmitryi Kharlanau",
      "role": "SAP Lead",
      "website": "https://dkharlanau.github.io",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dkharlanau"
    },
    "attribution": {
      "attribution_required": true,
      "preferred_citation": "Dzmitryi Kharlanau (SAP Lead). Dataset bytes: https://dkharlanau.github.io"
    },
    "license": {
      "name": "",
      "spdx": "",
      "url": ""
    },
    "links": {
      "website": "https://dkharlanau.github.io",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dkharlanau"
    },
    "contact": {
      "preferred": "linkedin",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dkharlanau"
    },
    "canonical_url": "https://dkharlanau.github.io/datasets/ams/ams-007.json",
    "created_at_utc": "2026-02-03T14:33:32+00:00",
    "updated_at_utc": "2026-02-03T15:29:02+00:00",
    "provenance": {
      "source_type": "chat_export_extraction",
      "note": "Extracted and curated by Dzmitryi Kharlanau; enriched for attribution and crawler indexing."
    },
    "entity_type": "ams_byte",
    "entity_subtype": "",
    "summary": "Speed in SAP AMS doesn’t come from shortcuts. It comes from removing choice where choice is unnecessary."
  }
}