SAP
Activate Methodology
in a Nutshell
By
Sudipta Malakar
FIRST EDITION 2019
Copyright BPB Publications, INDIA
ISBN: 978-93-88176-87-3
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Preface
It has been a general observation that most SAP consultants and professionals are used to the conventional waterfall methodology. SAP Activate is an innovative, next generation business suite that allows producing working deliverables straight away.
The traditional Waterfall model has many pitfalls in current market with varying complex customer requirements. SAP Activate Methodology is a harmonized agile implementation approach for cloud, on premise, and hybrid deployments for delivering shippable product increments in an iterative and incremental way. The SAP Activate methodology contains accelerators, tools, templates, questionnaires, checklists, work streams and guidebooks to ensure efficient, consistent, and repeatable delivery of SAP implementations and upgrades. As a successor to traditional implementation methodology, SAP Activate is underused, generally as a little material has been published on the modular and agile framework.
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 life examples, lessons learnt, accelerators and best practices. Well articulation on 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. This book articulates integration of SAP S/4HANA with Machine Learning Intelligence, intelligent enterprise tips & tricks, SAP Geographical Enablement Framework, Agricultural Contract Management, SAP Activate issues and challenges in large, mid and small scale projects and mitigation plan, Fit/Gap Workshops, Master Data Management, Vendor-Managed Inventory, useful Tips and Tricks for successful implementation of any Greenfield or brownfield, use of Agile, Scrum, Kanban, XP in SAP S/4 HANA Project and contains PLUS Real-time SAP Activate & SAP S/4 HANA Interview questions and answers.
It's a journey, not a silver bullet, and leaders need to avoid getting caught in analysis paralysis. Start making the changes, get the wins and let the organization evolve.
- Melissa Sargeant
The book features more on practical approach with more examples covering topics from simple to complex one addressing many of the core concepts and advance topics also.
It is said To err is human, to forgive Although the book is written with sincerity and honesty but in this light, I wish that the shortcomings of the book will be forgiven. At the same time the author is open to any kind of constructive criticisms and suggestions for further improvement. All intelligent suggestions are welcome and the author will try their best to incorporate such in valuable suggestions in the subsequent editions of this book.
Acknowledgement
No task is a single man's effort. Cooperation and Coordination of various people at different levels go into successful implementation of this book.
There is always a sense of gratitude, which everyone expresses others for their helpful and needy services they render during difficult phases of life and to achieve the goal already set.
At the outset I am thankful to the almighty that is constantly and invisibly guiding everybody and have also helped me to work on the right path.
I am son of Retired Professor Ganesh Chandra I am indebted to my Father as without his support it was not possible to reach this Milestone. My loving mother Sikha always provides inspiration to me. My cute loving Son Shreyan is always providing me precious support at his level best.
I am thankful to my parents, spouse, son and family for their guidance which motivated me to work for the betterment of consultants by writing the book with sincerity and honesty. Without their support, this book was not possible.
I wish my sincere thanks to colleagues who helped and kept me motivated for writing this text.
We also thank the Publisher and the whole staff at BPB Publication, especially Mr. Manish Jain for motivation and for bringing this text in a nice presentable form.
Finally, I thank everyone who has directly or indirectly contributed to complete this authentic work.
About the Author
Sudipta Malakar is an accomplished IT SAP Project Manager, Program Manager, Agile Coach with more than fifeteen years of experience in directing SAP DEV teams in supporting many major fortune clients in multiple large accounts that include more than seven years of experience in IT Project/Program & Solution Delivery Management and more than five years of experience in Agile as SCRUM Master, Agile Coach.
He is certified Disruptive Strategy professional from HBX Harvard Business School, USA, Bachelor degree in Technology (B. TECH) in Chemical Technology from Calcutta University.
He is certified Sr. Project Manager in (Prince-2), CSP, CSM, KMP, ICP-ACC, TKP, ITIL, DevOps, ISO, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, CMMi.
Table of Content
Preface
Acknowledgements
SAP Activate Methodology - Introduction
1.1 SAP Activate - The Three Pillars
1.2 SAP Solution Manager and SAP Activate