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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

SAP Activate - next generation agile methodology


SAP is positioning SAP Activate methodology as the next generation agile methodology to drive customer success. It caters to customer-specific configuration and extension requirements to reflect a customer's own business practices while remaining extremely scalable, nimble enough for smaller engagements, and more robust for larger projects. With SAP Activate, customers achieve fast and cost-effective deployment of SAP innovations with one simple, modular, and agile methodology. It is modular, flexible, and agile enough to accommodate today's and the future's delivery approaches. It enables co-innovation with customers. SAP Activate has imbibed the concept of agile in each phase of the methodology. And it clearly has the three pillars of scrum, transparency, inspection, and adaptation, on its side. Unlike the waterfall methodology, SAP Activate has an iterative build and solution validation, which helps it to fail fast (detect defects) and...