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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 (6 chapters)

Accessing SAP Activate content

Content for SAP Activate is available in SAP Jam and SAP solution manager. Methodology content can be navigated inside the roadmap viewer tool. In the next section, let's see how we can do so.

Accessing via roadmap viewer

Roadmap viewer can be partially accessed without any special credentials; to see all the content, one would require an s-user id for it. Roadmap viewer is accessible via https://go.support.sap.com/roadmapviewer/:

Roadmap viewer

Types of roadmaps

SAP Activate offers general methodologies that can be used as a generic methodology irrespective of product/solution, and also product specific guidance for implementing specific solutions:

  • General methodologies: Provide framework and approach for running a project across a range of solutions.
  • Product specific: SAP S/4HANA, SAP HANA technology platform, and SAP solution manager provide guidance for implementation of specific products.
    The search option facilitates the search for content within the roadmap viewer.
    The terminologies used at the roadmap viewer are as follows:
    • Phases: Stage of the project, at the end of which a Quality Gate exists to verify the completion of the deliverables.
    • Deliverable: A tangible or intangible product or service produced as a result of the project that is intended to be delivered to a customer. Several deliverables are included within a workstream.
    • Task: Work to be performed; a deliverable has one or more tasks.
    • Accelerators: A document, template, pre-built content, or a web link that helps reduce the implementation time.
    • Workstreams: The progressive completion of tasks completed by different groups within a company that is required to finish a single project. It is a collection of related deliverables.
    • Services: Grouping of deliverables in transition to S/4HANA on the premise roadmap that belong to the same services:
Terminology used in the roadmap viewer

Let's travel through some of the options in the roadmap. You can choose any of the roadmaps, depending on your need; here I chose SAP S/4HANA just to show you the details:

  1. Choose the roadmap type (here I chose SAP S/4HANA):
Roadmap type
  1. Then, choose the delivery method, On Cloud or On Premise (I chose On Cloud). It shows the Available Roadmaps. You can select the roadmap you want to see (I chose SAP Activate: Implement and Configure SAP S/4 HANA Finance Cloud):
RoadmapsChoose the delivery method
  1. It takes you to the main page of the chosen roadmap:
Main page of the chosen roadmap
  1. We can traverse through various tabs on the roadmap main page (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6) to find out more about the various options. With Download Project Plan, we can download a template project plan and use it.

 

  1. Clicking on Accelerators shows all the relevant accelerators for the roadmap. By default, the accelerators are grouped by phase; by clicking on it, the view can be changed, and the view will be in the group by workstream:
Accelerators in roadmaps
  1. The view can be toggled by clicking on Group by Phase and we can get the view of Group by Workstream:
Acceleratortoggled and Group by Workstream

We can explore various tabs and options available on the roadmap and use it as per requirement.

The home page of the roadmap viewer, https://go.support.sap.com/roadmapviewer/#, has the following options to Learn More. You can explore more from the following two tabs:

Homepage of the roadmap viewer