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In the book Team Topologies written by Manuel Pais and Matthew Skelton they state “Limit the size of software services/products to the cognitive load that the team can handle”.
Meaning — software that fits in your head, — as we see in the above picture, if not this can lead to several problems, keep it simple, “Software that is too big for our heads” works against organizational agility.
If you have ever worked with SAP you already know it´s a complex monster, no one fully understands it.
Cognitive Load is the total amount of mental effort being used in the working memory. John Seller
So how DevOps fit (or not) in SAP development?
There are some components in SAP that have existed since the early days of SAP R/3. One of these components is the SAP Change and Transport System (CTS).
While there were no significant changes to this important core component for a decade, it has been extended during the last 13 years to support the transport of non-ABAP objects (Enhanced CTS or CTS+) as well as the synchronization of dependent…