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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 estimation and planning of your projects


Estimating and planning are critical to the success of software development irrespective of the projects size. The agile teams usually use the planning onion concept. They plan at least at the release, iteration, and day level. Release planning considers the user stories that will be developed for a new release of a product or system. It determines an appropriate answer to the questions of scope, schedule, and resources for a projects. Release planning occurs at the start of a projects.

During iteration planning, we talk about the tasks that will be needed to transform a feature request into a working and tested software.

Most agile teams use the daily stand-up meeting to coordinate work and synchronize daily efforts. It might seem excessive to consider this planning in a formal sense; teams make, assess, and revise their plans during these meetings:

Planning onion

Planning is preceded by estimating (estimating the resources, time, and size...