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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

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank many people who helped me throughout this process. The first mention goes to my wife, Minal, for her understanding of the time I was spending on the book and for her regular feedback.

My special thanks to Premkishan, who is not only the reviewer of the book but also my first project lead. His inputs were very valuable and have helped me to improve the content of the book.

I would also like to thank Prof. Dr. Chen, Shiuann-Shuoh, for the encouragement and support in allowing me to work with student groups from the ERP center, National Central University of Taiwan to develop the content.

Many individuals have provided comments at various stages on portions of this book. I would also like to thank my parents as well as Naveen Rai, Ajeet Ravi, Resham Rai, Nutan Singh, and Poonam Singh for their continuous support and encouragement. I sincerely appreciate the small talks that I had with Frank Strohmaier and Sanjeev Kedarshetty on project management topics and Agile.

Many many thanks to my editors, Trusha Shriyan, Kinjal Bari, Prachi Bisht, and Sayali Thanekar, who worked closely with me and without whom the book would not have been possible. Finally, I would like to appreciate and thank my publishing team and graphics team for their splendid work.