How FrontLoad works
Start with the working system.
Your business context goes in. A working S/4HANA development system comes into view. Your team sees, decides, tests, and refines from there.
Why the order matters
Early is when your team can still change the answer.
Traditional projects often spend the early runway describing a future system. The working system appears later, when corrections cost more and the team has less room to influence the result.
FrontLoad moves something inspectable to the beginning, while the important choices are still open.
The order flips
The same hard work. A different starting point.
FrontLoad does not remove design, testing, business decisions, or implementation discipline. It moves them into a project where people can see the system they are shaping.
Backloaded Waterfall
- 01BlueprintDescribe the future on paper.
- 02DebateResolve details in workshops.
- 03BuildTurn the documents into a system.
- 04DiscoverMeet the real system late.
The first hard truth arrives after the project has spent runway.
FrontLoaded Agile
- 01Start with one processUse real business context.
- 02See the systemPut something working in front of the team.
- 03Decide in contextJudge choices against the system.
- 04Build, test, refineCarry the work toward go-live.
The project is built around evidence people can inspect.
What your team provides
Give LeapGreat one real process and the context around it.
The free test drive begins with an hour from your team. LeapGreat supplies the questions in advance. Your people bring enough business reality to make the first working process recognizable as yours.
One core process
A process worth seeing and discussing, not the whole company at once.
Representative data
The company and process data needed to make the working session concrete.
Roles and language
The people, responsibilities, terms, and exceptions your team uses every day.
The right participants
The CIO and IT director, plus the business and process voices needed for the chosen process.
Decisions to coach
Cloud, implementation path, ownership, and delivery choices stay with your team.
Inside LeapGreat
Your information becomes connected context.
AI only works with context. LeapGreat structures the processes, data, roles, terminology, decisions, tests, and documentation around a working S/4HANA development system.
- 01
Your business context
Process, data, roles, terms, and choices.
- 02
LeapGreat context model
Twenty-five years of SAP knowledge, structured for the work.
- 03
Automation and agents
Configuration plus assisted testing, validation, and documentation.
- 04
Working system and twin
A development system the team can see, test, and refine.
The Enterprise Map connects the process landscape so the team can navigate from business context toward the system work underneath it.
What you see by Friday
One process. Your context. Running in S/4HANA.
The Friday promise is deliberately specific. It gives your team something it can inspect before committing the full project to paper.
A 90-minute working session for the CIO and IT director, built around one core process from your business.
Recognizable business context in an S/4HANA development system.
The team can judge the approach on something it can inspect.
The full project still requires decisions, refinement, testing, and delivery.
After the test drive
Three weeks plus Day 1.
The paid FrontLoad opening move turns the starting proof into a connected system, Digital Twin, trained workstream leads, and the plan for what follows.
- Week1
Rapid Assessment
Focused interviews gather the processes, data, and decisions that shape the starting point.
Output: the context and scope for the build. - Week2
Rapid Build
Automation configures the S/4HANA development system and connects the project tools.
Output: a system the team can work against. - Week3
Digital Twin
The working system gains synchronized documentation, guided navigation, and a shared view.
Output: connected context that stays useful. - Day1
Hands-on start
Every workstream lead trains in the system and begins the build, test, and refine loop.
Output: business and IT working from the same reality.
The visibility layer
Turn the Black Box into a Glass Box.
The Glass Box is the customer metaphor for a visible project. The Digital Twin is the living connected model inside it. They are related, but they are not the same thing.
The old game
The Black Box
Your project is described from the outside.
- Status decks and steering meetings
- Documents standing in for the system
- Decisions separated from what they change
- Knowledge scattered across teams
- The real system appearing late
You learn what the plan means when changes are harder.
FrontLoad with LeapGreat
The Glass Box
Your team can see what the project is becoming.
- The working system at the beginning
- Business context built into the view
- Decisions connected to the system
- Tests and documentation connected
- A Digital Twin the team can navigate
People judge the project against the thing itself.
A living model of the business in S/4HANA.
Processes, roles, data, decisions, transactions, documentation, and tests stay connected to the working system.
True Agile
See it. Judge it. Change it. Test it again.
Business and IT work in quick iterations, seeing each round of feedback reflected in the working S/4HANA system.
Workstreams can move in parallel because everyone is working against the same visible project, not separate interpretations of a blueprint.
Business+IT
Selective Modernization
Choose the right answer for each process.
FrontLoad does not force one transformation answer across the entire company. The team can inspect a process, decide what it needs, and test that decision in the working system.
Fit-to-Standard
Use S/4HANA as delivered where the process does not need to be different.
Best when standard supports the business without giving away real advantage.Fit-to-Past
Preserve an existing behavior when there is a clear business reason to keep it.
The old way must earn its place inside the future system.Fit-to-Design
Redesign a process when the move creates a useful opportunity to work differently.
The choice is built, tested, and refined instead of debated in the abstract.
Who does what
Keep your SI. Keep the wheel.
LeapGreat changes the starting point and the shared working surface. It does not erase the wider implementation work or take the business decisions away from the customer.
Own the decisions
- Provide business context
- Judge the working process
- Set priorities and tradeoffs
- Keep business and IT engaged
Create the visible start
- Structure the context
- Accelerate the development-system setup
- Connect the Digital Twin
- Coach the opening decisions
Coach, configure, and deliver
- Bring program and solution expertise
- Configure and integrate the wider system
- Support testing, cutover, and delivery
- Work against the same visible system
What continues after FrontLoad
The opening move becomes the working project.
FrontLoad is not a disposable demo or a separate paper phase. The approved work continues toward go-live, with the connected knowledge close to the people who need it.
Working system
The development system moves forward into implementation.
Digital Twin
Processes, roles, data, decisions, tests, and documentation stay connected.
Documentation
Decisions and system truth stay synchronized instead of drifting into separate files.
Team know-how
Your people learn the system by working inside it from the beginning.
The simplest way to understand it
Put one real process in front of your team.
Give LeapGreat an hour. See your own business running in S/4HANA by Friday. Then decide what the evidence tells you.