SAP developers face education debt, user group warns
In the long term, this threatens to lead to poor architectural decisions, time-consuming workarounds, and in-house developments that will need to be maintained with every release, according to DSAG. Many business consultants, too, are still relying too heavily on classic GUI transactions and not taking modern Fiori technologies sufficiently into account.
The result is what the SAP user group refers to as “skills debt.” This debt remains invisible at first but later becomes apparent in the form of longer projects, rising maintenance costs, and a growing dependence on external service providers.
Skill building must start before the project
The DSAG authors view the timing of training as particularly critical. Those who wait until an ongoing S/4HANA migration project is underway to begin building expertise significantly increase the project risk. A lack of knowledge about CDS, RAP, or Fiori leads to architectural decisions that must later be corrected at great expense. At the same time, the necessary learning effort can hardly be managed alongside day-to-day business operations.
