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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

Understanding the scrum team - roles and responsibilities


The following diagram shows the framework for scrum. There are various steps in the scrum flow. Let's look at each of them one by one under different headings:

Scrum framework

  • Roles and responsibilities in scrum: There are three specific roles in scrum:
    • Product owner: The scrum product owner has the vision of what he/she wants to build and conveys that vision to the team. The roles of the product owner are:
      • Defining and prioritizing the features of the product backlog
      • Deciding on the release date and content
      • Responsibility for the profitability of the product (ROI)
      • Accepting or rejecting work results
      • Adopting changes in features and priorities at every iteration
      • Removing obstacles and shielding the team from interference
      • Responsibility for improving performance of the team, ensuring the team is fully functional and productive
      • Attending daily stand-up meeting, iteration reviews, and planning meetings
    • Scrum master: The scrum master is the one...