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Manage Your SAP Projects with SAP Activate

By : Vinay Singh
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Manage Your SAP Projects with SAP Activate

By: Vinay Singh

Overview of this book

It has been a general observation that most SAP consultants and professionals are used to the conventional waterfall methodology. Traditionally, this method has been there for ages and we all grew up learning about it and started practicing it in real world. The evolution of agile methodology has revolutionized the way we manage our projects and businesses. SAP Activate is an innovative, next generation business suite that allows producing working deliverables straight away. Manage your SAP Project with SAP Activate, will take your learning to the next level. The book promises to make you understand and practice the SAP Activate Framework. The focus is to take you on a journey of all the phases of SAP Activate methodology and make you understand all the phases with real time project examples. The author explains how SAP Activate methodology can be used through real-world use cases, with a comprehensive discussion on Agile and Scrum, in the context of SAP Project. You will get familiar with SAP S4HANA which is an incredibly innovative platform for businesses which can store business data, interpret it, analyze it, process it in real time, and use it when it's needed depending upon the business requirement.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Structure and phases of SAP Activate


The SAP Activate methodology is structured into phases, workstreams, deliverables, and tasks.

As depicted in the following diagram, the structure elements are:

  • Phase
  • Workstream
  • Deliverable
  • Task:

The structure element of SAP Activate

In addition to these elements, the SAP Activate methodology contains a workstream that is assigned as an attribute to tasks and deliverables:

Preview (workstream for on-premise solution)

Let's discuss each structure individually and find out how they work together. We start with the phases of SAP Activate in an on-premise project.

The SAP Activate content is time-wise structured into phases. The phases provide support throughout the project life cycle. Each phase has a series of value delivery and relevant checks to make sure that the solution delivers as per the expectation. The project phases of SAP Activate for on-premise are Prepare, Explore, Realize, and Deploy:

Phases of SAP Activate for on-premise

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