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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

Story mapping for SAP projects


Story mapping is a top-down approach to requirement gathering. It arranges user stories into a useful model that is easy to understand and allows you tell your user story in a simpler way. It helps you identify missing details (if any) in your backlog and effectively plan the release.

In general, the story map structure looks as follows:

In a SAP Project perspective, we can redraw it as follows:

Now, let's see how the structure of a story flows. As depicted in the following image, we start with Epic Business Context (scenario) and break it down further into processes and process steps:

Story map structure flow in a SAP context

For example, plan to produce -> demand management -> forecast product demand.

Let's see what a user story looks like in a scrum model and in a SAP Project:

User story format

Non-functional requirements

A common challenge while writing a user story is how to handle a product's non-functional requirements. These are requirements that are not...