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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

Summary


In this chapter, we discussed examples from different projects and industry best practices that might help you in your projects. You learned how phases of SAP Activate embraces agile concepts and makes SAP projects more agile than traditional methodologies. Concepts such as the planning poker and onion model were introduced to make planning and estimation simpler. We extended our discussion from structuring the prepare phase to deploying the solution, discussing and understanding various components and building blocks involved in the process.

This brings us to the end of the book; by now, you should be comfortable with the methodology and framework related to SAP Activate and how to use SAP Activate as the next generation scrum tool for project management.