Aditya Lal - SAP Activate Project Management Certification Guide

Welcome to this guide to the SAP Certified Associate SAP Activate Project Manager certification! Since SAP announced the launch of the SAP Activate methodologya universal project management approach for the SAP S/4HANA implementationin 2015, more than 3,000 clients have implemented SAP S/4HANA, as of the writing of this book. Many professionals, with or without an SAP background, have used the SAP Activate methodology, and there is a need and constant demand for the certification knowledgebase. This book will fill that void, help professionals gain considerable knowledge regarding the SAP Activate methodology, and further their interests to be certified.

The focus of this book is SAP certification, but many professionals will find it useful as their first read about the SAP Activate methodology. In this book, weve detailed all the topic areas including the basics of the methodology, the agile and the Scrum framework, the eleven workstreams, and the three transition pathsnew implementation, system conversion, and selective data transition. To enhance the readability and sync with the certification exam, each chapter represents a certification topic.

This book is for anyone interested in learning about or preparing to take the SAP Activate certification exam (C_ACTIVATE12). Program and project managers, customers, implementation partners, business leaders, process owners, and end users will find this book a starting point to gain industry-standard knowledge on SAP Activate. In fact, many project management professionals, practicing either the agile or waterfall methodology from non-SAP backgrounds will find this book a useful resource to gain a deep understanding of the SAP Activate methodology and make a career switch to SAP technology.

Each chapter in this book starts with high-level capabilities and drills down to the detail level, providing you with a sound understanding of the topic for the purposes of the exam. However, this book doesnt cover any specific templates or accelerators as they arent part of the exam, which you can always find on the Roadmap Viewer. Additionally, several products and tools, such as SAP Solution Manager or SAPs application lifecycle management (ALM) tool, are used throughout the book without going into the details of their setup to keep the book focused on the SAP Activate certification. Nevertheless, this book will help you build a great foundation on SAP Activate in your efforts to gain a competitive advantage.

Weve organized this book solely on the certification topics that youll find for the C_ACTIVATE12 exam ( http://s-prs.co/v519400 ). Each certification topic represents a chapter in this book, which are in order of increasing complexity. We start the book by providing some basic concepts of the SAP Activate methodology, delving into the details of the agile and Scrum frameworks, and then deep diving into the three transition paths, segregating them based on cloud or on-premise implementations.