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Manage Your SAP Projects with SAP Activate
Manage Your SAP Projects with SAP Activate

Manage Your SAP Projects with SAP Activate: Implementing SAP S/4HANA

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Manage Your SAP Projects with SAP Activate

SAP Activate Methodology

This chapter details the SAP Activate methodology, its main characteristics (In cloud, on-premise, and hybrid), and how it handles governance, roles, and various implementation approaches. We will take a closer look at fit/gap analysis and Delta solution design workshops. Solution validation and Model Company are also briefly discussed but these topics will be discussed in detail in the later chapters. We will conclude this chapter with a detailed discussion on the structure and phases of SAP Activate.

Main characteristics of the SAP Activate methodology - In cloud, on-premise, and hybrid

The SAP Activate methodology supports project teams in the deployment of SAP solutions to In cloud, on-premise, or hybrid environments. Customers can follow on their own, with SAP or with SAP partners.

SAP Activate has imbibed the 40 plus years of implementation experience that SAP has with its customers. The distinct among them can be jotted down as follows:

  • Start with best practices: Use Ready-to-Run business processes
  • Cloud-ready: Leverage the flexibility and speed of cloud
  • Validate solution: Validate best practices with fit/gap workshop and capture data
  • Premium engagement ready: Build and run fully supported via SAP control centers
  • Modular, scalable, and agile: Structured project to deliver solution directly
  • Quality built-in: Identify the risks early with a total quality approach

Let...

Fit/gap analysis

The main objective of the fit/gap analysis is to identify any capture Delta business requirement and gaps, which might not have been captured in the preactivated or preassembled solution (sandbox). At the end of the analysis, it is expected that the team has finalized and gotten the approval for scope baseline to proceed into the realize phase.

This ensures that implementation meets customer's business needs and the customer's solution is aligned to SAP standard processes. It also provides an opportunity to relook and discuss the solution design, prioritized Delta requirements, and gaps. A good gap analysis reduces the need for rework during the realize phase. With fit/gap analysis, the purpose is also to validate the predefined scenarios, processes, and enhancements, and identify potential gaps between the delivered product and customer requirements...

Structure and phases of SAP Activate

The SAP Activate methodology is structured into phases, workstreams, deliverables, and tasks.

As depicted in the following diagram, the structure elements are:

  • Phase
  • Workstream
  • Deliverable
  • Task:
The structure element of SAP Activate

In addition to these elements, the SAP Activate methodology contains a workstream that is assigned as an attribute to tasks and deliverables:

Preview (workstream for on-premise solution)

Let's discuss each structure individually and find out how they work together. We start with the phases of SAP Activate in an on-premise project.

The SAP Activate content is time-wise structured into phases. The phases provide support throughout the project life cycle. Each phase has a series of value delivery and relevant checks to make sure that the solution delivers as per the expectation. The project phases of SAP Activate...

Governance framework in SAP Activate

Governance has become a more widely used term in recent years to the point that common usage now implies a strong personal responsibility as well as a role of authority. Governance refers to a set of policies, regulations, functions, processes, procedures, and responsibilities that define the establishment, management, and control of projects, programs, and portfolios. As per PMI-PMBOK: "Project governance provides a framework in which the project manager and sponsors can make a decision that satisfies both stakeholder needs and expectations and organizational strategic objectives or address circumstances where these may not be in alignment."

With project governance in place, the decision-making and escalation steps to resolve issues are easier to follow. It describes the flow of information between the project and all stakeholders...

Summary

In this chapter, you learned the main characteristics of SAP Activate, such as: start with best practices, be cloud-ready, carry out solution validation, and be premium engagement ready. We explored our concept of solution validation workshops (A/B) and how they help to do a gap analysis. This will be further discussed in the later chapters and we will see how it can be used for aligning the business and customer's needs. Structures and phases in the SAP Activate methodology were also discussed in detail and we also looked at the governance aspect of SAP Activate.

In Chapter 3, Use Case Scenario for SAP Activate, we will see phase by phase the details of various use case scenarios for SAP Activate. We will go into detail how the methodology can be used for new implementation (In cloud and on-premise), system conversion, and landscape transformation.

...

Main characteristics of the SAP Activate methodology - In cloud, on-premise, and hybrid


The SAP Activate methodology supports project teams in the deployment of SAP solutions to In cloud, on-premise, or hybrid environments. Customers can follow on their own, with SAP or with SAP partners.

SAP Activate has imbibed the 40 plus years of implementation experience that SAP has with its customers. The distinct among them can be jotted down as follows:

  • Start with best practices: Use Ready-to-Run business processes
  • Cloud-ready: Leverage the flexibility and speed of cloud
  • Validate solution: Validate best practices with fit/gap workshop and capture data
  • Premium engagement ready: Build and run fully supported via SAP control centers
  • Modular, scalable, and agile: Structured project to deliver solution directly
  • Quality built-in: Identify the risks early with a total quality approach

Let's try to dig up a little more and find out the details of each offering.

Start with best practices

Best practices is one the...

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Key benefits

  • Explore the three pillars of SAP Activate and see how it works in different scenario.
  • Understand and Implement Agile and Scrum concepts in SAP Activate.
  • Get to Grisp with SAP Activate framework and manage your SAP projects effectively.

Description

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.

Who is this book for?

This book is for readers who want to understand the working of SAP Activate and use it to manage SAP projects. Prior knowledge of SAP Hana is must.

What you will learn

  • Understand the fundamentals of SAP S4/HANA.
  • Get familiar with the structure and characteristics of SAP Activate.
  • Explore the application scenarios of SAP Activate.
  • Use Agile and Scrum in SAP Projects effectively and efficiently
  • Implement your learning into a sample project to explore and understand the benefits of SAP Activate methodology.
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Introduction to SAP S/4HANA Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
SAP Activate Methodology Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Last year, some of my colleague and I were looking for some kind of help for managing one of our IS Oil project. We really struggled and finally we dropped the idea of Activate. This book clears a lot of steps, configuration and does provide good insight for trouble shooting. Really helpful even for people who are project managers and may not have real hands on experience.
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Liked the simplified and easy approach of Author to explain the complex and new topic. He has very nicely connected the dot between Agile , scrum and how SAP activate incorporates it.S4HANA is completely new to me and the information related project were very scattered when I searched on the internet.So this book was a great help. concepts are well supported by real projects examples.I already recommended it to my Team
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Very nice book for learning about managing your projects using SAP activate.
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Livro com explicações muito claras. Introduz conceitos importantes com detalhes suficientes para o leitor entender os tópicos principals do livro.
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Good overview but links to SDLC and security were weak.
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