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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

Example scenarios


Let's take an example of an ERP implementation (global for a company). The company wanted to create one ERP landscape/solution on the SAP S/4HANA platform. The company operations (including systems/data) are distributed across three different regions: APJ, EMEA, and North America. Like any other big SAP project, this project had similar challenges, some of which are jotted down here:

  • Due to different locations and team size, coordination for planning and execution was a nightmare
  • Different regions with local product feature preferences created conflicts of interest
  • There were cultural differences and higher communication demands
  • The need for integration was high, be it functional or technical
  • There was a higher need for the organizational adaptation of agile
  • Due to different geographical locations, decision-making processes were distributed and the sign off/review process was taking a longer time than usual

To solve the preceding challenges, the experienced project and program...