This document discusses why and how SAP is transitioning to agile. It notes that the way we live and work has changed due to digital transformation, influencing business trends. This impacts how SAP wants to work. The agile transition aims to reduce time to value, stay closely aligned with users, and avoid surprises through a "divide and conquer" approach. SAP is initiating a mindset shift and training to coach teams on agile practices like Scrum, without prerequisites. Further facets include aligning roles, setting up stable international teams, and evolving agile processes.

1. Agile@SAP, Why & How?
Albrecht Schuppert
Enterprise Architect & Agile Transformation Lead, SAP SE

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7. Why have we started our Agile Transition? – Strategic Perspective
o Change is the only constant in Digital Age
o Reduce time to value
o Need to manage large scale implementation projects

8. Why have we started our Agile Transition? – Project Perspective
o Stay closely aligned with business users throughout development cycle
o Create impact by focus on business value tangible for end users
o Be successful by “divide and conquer”- approach results in a smaller scope per
iteration
o Avoid the “acceptance test surprise”

9. How do we approach the Agile Transition?
o Initiate the mind-shift
o Make start not dependent of too many prerequisites
o Training
o Coaching

10. Mind Shift is essential to the Agile Transition
o We need to replace the Plan / Build / Run silos by a highly
collaborative environment
o We want to put the business value into the center of
our efforts
o We don’t want Build to be only the receiver of
requirements
o We don’t want Run to be the receiver of Build
outcome

11. Training efforts are focused on How-To Dimension
o Initial generic content on e.g. SCRUM, Jira etc. is leveraged as eLearning
o How-To Dimension always has ‘true’ teams in its center
o How to break down the Product Vision into product roadmap
o How to write User Stories
o How to run SCRUM events
o Team norms and team mechanics
o …
o Training sessions consist of
extensive breakout for practicing content

12. Further Facets of Agile Transformation
o Alignment with workers council on roles Scrum Master and Product Owner
o Setup of stable teams in context of an organization sourcing from many international
locations
o Establishing an Agile ready portfolio process
o Evolve Agile project status reporting
o Etc.