This book is written for SAP project managers, consultants, and SAP solution manager experts who intend to understand and use SAP Activate. It will enable them to use agile techniques in SAP and non-SAP projects with sample projects and best practices.
Chapter 1, Introduction to SAP S/4HANA, kick-starts our journey of managing SAP projects with SAP Activate. We start the discussion with an overview of SAP S/4 HANA and its features. We will take a detailed look at existing SAP methodologies and compare it with SAP activate. In this chapter, we will also talk about the three pillars of SAP activate and how it supports the different scenarios. We will conclude the chapter with how design thinking concepts are used in SAP Activate and get access to SAP Activate content.
Chapter 2, SAP Activate Methodology, details out the SAP activate methodology, its main characteristics, and structure (in cloud, on-premise, and hybrid). This chapter covers how it handles governance, roles, and various implementation approaches. We will also look at solution validation and model company, but these topics will also be discussed in the upcoming chapters.
Chapter 3, Use Case Scenario for SAP Activate, discusses the application scenarios of SAP Activate and talks about the main deliverables of each phase of SAP Activate. We will go through the three scenarios in which SAP Activate can be used (new implementations both on cloud and on-premise, system conversion, and landscape transformations) and learn how SAP Activate methodology guides teams through these scenarios.
Chapter 4, Understanding Agile and Scrum, focuses on learning the basic concepts of agile and scrum and tries to see how SAP activate has been developed as the next-generation agile methodology. The discussion is focused on the context of agile and scrum concepts in SAP Activate. We also go through how to set up an agile project and how to scale it. The intention is not to go into the details of agile and scrum, but rather correlate and understand SAP activate in the context of agile.
Chapter 5, Sample Projects, covers how the concepts of agile work in SAP projects. We will take multiple examples from various real-time projects and see how capturing and documenting user requirements and creating a product backlog (all from a SAP project perspective) can be done. We take a closer look at the various phases of SAP Activate and how agile concepts are used in these phases. Industry best practices are also shared during discussion of various concepts.
We would need the following things:
- Internet access
- Access to SAP solution manager system (720 release)
This book is intended for project managers, consultants, and SAP solution manager experts who intend to understand and practice SAP activate framework. It will enable them to use agile techniques in SAP projects with sample projects.
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