
Explore how SAP Activate Project Management integrates agile methods with the Activate framework to manage SAP deployments, covering agile roles, backlog creation, sprint cycles, testing, and S/4HANA transition paths.
Explore agile and scrum fundamentals, including scrum boards, user stories, product and sprint backlogs, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, burndown charts, and sprint retrospectives.
Explore how SAP Activate blends best practices, guided configuration, and agile methods to deploy or migrate to S/4HANA with a product backlog across phases Prepare, Explore, Realize, and Deploy.
Learn agile roles and responsibilities in SAP Activate projects, including the Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Scrum team, and how stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review, and retrospective shape delivery.
Explore agile project organization in SAP, learn how to structure multiple scrum teams with scrum-of-scrums, manage product ownership at strategic, tactical, and operational levels, and align governance for scalable delivery.
Prepare an agile project in the SAP Activate framework by defining product owners and scrum masters, staffing a cross-functional team, and balancing working software with essential documentation.
Explore the explore phase of SAP Activate project management, where teams collect requirements, prioritize work, and build the initial backlog via business process workshops and solution validation.
Create a dynamic product backlog by capturing user stories, prioritizing items with MoSCoW, and refining backlog through sprint planning and Solution Manager tools.
Define and apply the definition of done (DoD) and definition of ready (DoR) within agile teams, aligning user stories, acceptance criteria, and sprint readiness for shippable software.
Learn release planning in SAP Activate, from defining and prioritizing the product backlog to analyzing technical dependencies and estimating with planning poker. Explore release scope decisions, velocity, and sprint alignment.
Learn the sprint cycle in SAP Agile Activate Project Management, including sprint planning, two to four week iterations, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
Explore testing and deployment in SAP Activate project management, detailing unit, integration, QA environment testing, data migration, and performance tests, plus cutover planning during deploy.
Explore the elements of SAP Activate, a framework that combines content, tools, and methodology for rapid S/4HANA implementations, including new implementation, system conversion, and landscape transformation.
Explore SAP Activate transition paths to move to S/4HANA, including system conversion, reusing in-place conversion, and reengineering via new implementation or selective data transition, on premise or cloud.
Explore the six key characteristics of SAP Activate—ready-to-use content, cloud readiness, delta-based validation, scalable modular agile delivery, SAP engagement readiness, and built-in quality gates—along with premium engagements.
Explore SAP Activate elements and the shift from traditional to agile delivery. Leverage SAP Solution Manager, S/4HANA, Roadmap Viewer, and content provisioning to enable P2P, R2D, D2C, and R2F workflows.
Explore workstreams in SAP Activate project management, covering hybrid agile, governance, delta design, explore and realize phases, product backlog, sprints, and release planning.
Explore the design and configuration workstream within SAP Activate, detailing end-to-end and modular processes, SAP best practices, BPML foundations, and solution implementation types for delta requirements.
Navigate the analytics workstream in SAP Activate, exploring analytics and reporting options and SAP best practices across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise deployments.
Explore the customer team enablement workstream within SAP Activate project management, detailing partner-led and self-education options, open SAP and SAP Learning Hub tools, and training requirements for effective stakeholder engagement.
Explore the solution adoption workstream, covering end-user training, change management, value management, and stakeholder engagement with train-the-trainer approaches using Enable Now.
Learn how the extensibility workstream extends SAP S/4HANA with in-app and side-by-side options, using tools like extensibility cockpit and CCM, under ITIL-aligned governance.
Explore the testing workstream in SAP Activate, covering unit, integration, UAT, regression, security, and performance testing, plus key roles and tools like SAP Solution Manager, CBTA, and TDMS.
Explore the integration workstream in SAP Activate Project Management, comparing cloud and on-premise deployments, licensing, architecture, security, monitoring, and integration patterns with SAP Solution Manager and cloud-to-cloud or on-premise connections.
Explore operation and support workstream options in SAP Activate, including on-premise and cloud deployment models, and outline CCoE roles, tools, hypercare, and maintenance planning.
Explore the data management workstream in SAP Activate, covering data migration, data volume management, and master data management for SAP S/4HANA, and learn the data migration cycle and migration cockpit.
Explore the technical architecture and infrastructure workstream in SAP Activate Project Management. Learn hardware sizing, quickSizer outputs, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure capacity for SAP S/4 HANA deployments.
Explore SAP S/4HANA transition paths, including system conversion, new implementation, and landscape transformation, with cloud and on-premise deployment options and governance considerations.
Navigate SAP Activate reference materials, road map viewer, and best practice explorer to access S/4 HANA roadmaps, solution packages, and data migration guidance.
SAP Activate is a methodology businesses use to perform SAP S/4HANA implementations. It allows for a speedy system deployment and applies principles that enable an organization to adopt new capabilities.
The SAP Activate Methodology represents an agile, modular framework for migration or implementation SAP solutions. It supports project management teams through every stage of a project, beginning with initial planning, requirements implementation, and concluding with the continuous improvement of the SAP solution
This course builds on basic consultant skills and experience that is then refined by practical experience during several projects. This course supports to become SAP focused project managers who have advanced business skills and the ability to apply methodologies and tools. Aside from advanced communication and presentation skills, this course also helps the project manager built the skills to manage internal and external stakeholders, basic knowledge of change management processes, and communicating these processes to others. With this course the project manager can successfully manage the end-to-end transition of the project from Sales to Realization, can develop roadmaps for project execution, and understand testing and quality management. In particular for SAP related projects, the Project Manager can apply the SAP Activate Methodology.
This course covers following SAP Activate Project Management Topics:
SAP Activate Overview
SAP Activate Elements
Agile Delivery Approach
Workstreams Overview
Agile Project Planning
Different Transition Path
Activate Tools Demo