Agile SAP: Mission Impossible? Real life story on first agile SAP project in Netherlands.

1. Agile SAP: Mission Impossible?
SAP Inside Track Bonn
Twan van den Broek
February 20, 2010

2. Introduction
• CIBER NL
– Principal Consultant
– SAP NetWeaver Solution Architect
• Other
– SAP project experience since 1995
– Speaker at international conferences
– Author of articles
• Web
– Blog: twanvdbroek.blogspot.com
– Twitter: @tbroek
– LinkedIn: tbroek
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3. Why are we here?
Intro
Why are we here?
Agile?
How to start?
A day at the office
Experiences
Arrival
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approach
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6. Agile?
Intro
Why are we here?
Agile?
How to start?
A day at the office
Experiences
Arrival
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8. What does being agile mean?
• Collaborate
– Different roles, same time and location
• Iterate
– Plan - Deliver - Evaluate
– Two to four weeks
• Deliver
– Deliver early and frequent
– Small units of work / smart use cases
• Plan
– Daily
– Measure continuously
– Test early and often
• Simplify communicaton
– Simple dashboards, burn down charts, pair programming
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9. What is Scrum?
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11. What does being agile with SAP mean?
• Involve
– Product owner, business users
– Enterprise architect, business analysts
• Standardize
– All roles work on same product
– Simplify product life cycle
– Model front end and services in smart use cases
– Test and deliver individual services
– Integrate front end and services each iterations
• Expect issues
– “Agile is for small projects”
– “We need to design the whole system upfront”
– “Sorry, connectivity to our system is available in 4 months”
– “We need to review every use case before you can implement it”
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12. Smart use cases?
www.smartusecase.com
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13. What is smart?
Create
Round up
project
software
proposal
Propose Scope Realize Realize Realize Realize Finalize Manage
Deliver
Write Maintain
working
project plan software
software
Smart:
Sander Hoogendoorn, Principal Technology Officer, Capgemini
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14. Smart iterations
What product(s)
do we want to
deliver?
Are we up to
Plan
speed? Define done
Is our process
optimal?
Are the product(s)
done?
Propose Scope Realize Realize Realize Realize Finalize Manage
Build
Evaluate
Deliver product(s)
using product
cycle
Visualise progress
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15. How to start?
Intro
Why are we here?
Agile?
How to start?
A day at the office
Experiences
Arrival
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16. Build your team
• Product owner
– Responsible for gathering all business requirements (scope)
– Prioritize requirements
• Scrum team
– Business analyst /2
– Information analyst /1,5
– SAP CRM /1
– SAP XI/ BPM /2
– SAP ABAP /1
– .NET developer /1
– Test /2
– Scrum master /1
– Agile coach /1
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17. Design together with
business

18. Modeling smart use
cases

20. Estimating smart use
cases

21. Product Backlog
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22. Determine velocity

23. A day at the office
Intro
Why are we here?
Agile?
How to start?
A day at the office
Experiences
Arrival
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24. Daily scrum meeting

25. Project wall with
dashboard Dashboard to track
single smart use cases
Project pie chart
How many points
How far are we? realized per iteration
Done / Total
How many points
realized on daily basis
Burn down chart
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26. Pair programming/
customizing

27. Project Burn down chart
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28. Project statistics /2
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29. Pair testing

30. Demo end of each
iteration

31. Evaluate

32. Experiences
Intro
Why are we here?
Agile?
How to start?
A day at the office
Experiences
Arrival
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33. Lessons learned
Key take aways
• Agile is no silver bullit
• Realistic scope for sprint backlog
– Parkinson’s law, Student syndrome, Overflow
• Focus team on team delivery
– Prevent everyone is busy with everything
• Involve project environment
– Avoid long lasting review cycles
– Participate with application management
• Be firm in following approach
– Heartbeat in iterations
– Prevent to catch up on old habits
• Co-located project team
– Prevent communication gaps
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34. Experiences agile SAP
Key take aways
• Focus
– Connect teams and roles
– High speed project
– Day to day focus on scope
– Great planning insights
– Discussion on priorities instead of deadlines
– Documentation is up to date
– Very agile to changing requirements
– Connects business and IT to deliver business needs with a short
time to market
• Change management
– “Agile will not work in the SAP world”
– Skeptical attitude turned into faith towards end
– “Just do it”, think big, start small
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35. Tips to apply agile SAP within your project
Key take aways
• Use project wall / dashboard
– Facilitate collaboration, communication and insight
• Scrum is a process, smart is complementary and offers
techniques in addition
– Single modeling technique with smart use cases for whole project
– Good unit of work, small enough to oversee and fit within iteration
– Easy project estimation
• Product owner is key role to success
• Agile / SOA / SAP project: Think in services, focus on
processes and deliver in iterations
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36. Enthusiastic on
project and approach

37. Questions?
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