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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)

Structuring the explore phase


We have already discussed the phases of SAP Activate in the previous chapters. Let's take a closer look at the explore phase and map it to agile. With the explore phase, SAP Activate facilitates frequent inspection that allows the project team to check customer expectations and build a baseline. It also facilitates the fast demonstration of SAP standards and performs early visualization. The main idea is to create a business value focused backlog. Let's see each sub-component of the explore phase one by one (we will only look at the agile perspective).

One of the key blocks of the explore phase is a solution validation workshop. With a solution validation workshop, it is possible to:

  • Perform early adaptation of sprint principles
  • Perform a solution demo
  • Create a solution documentation produced in Sprints and organized through a business process hierarchy
  • Visualization of solution
  • Align design approach with business values
  • Prioritize product backlogs
  • Learn documentation...