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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)

Deploy your solution


Before we think of deploying the solution, it is very important to ensure that the solution is consumable. We need to make sure that the solution is technically ready to be deployed and stakeholders are ready to accept the solution. Once assured of this, we can prepare for deployment. The cut-over team decides and finalizes what activities are needed to deploy the solution and how to define the criteria for a successful deployment:

Solution deployment

Let's quickly revisit the overview of steps about deployment and support in SAP Activate (already discussed in Chapter 4, Understanding Agile and Scrum):

Sap Activate - Agile project delivery

Deployment of the solution is preceded by testing. The test strategy is delivered in the explore phase (SAP Activate) and reviewed by technical and functional teams. An overview of solution testing activities throughout the projects can be summarized as follows:

Solution testing across different phases of SAP Activate

In the realization...