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A dinner chat with Mike Vizdos

I\'ve been following Mike Vizdos @mvizdos on Twitter for quite some time now. His popular web site implementingscrum.com mixes a healthy dose of cartoon humor with some very practical and handy advice on utilizing Scrum. So when Mike tweeted about being in Sacramento for the week we reached out and…

Feature planning in an agile SAP implementation

In one of our previous posts we talked about the core roles and basic team structure in an agile SAP implementation. We are now ready to take a look at one of the first steps in planning the implementation and assessing the work that will need to be done by each team…

Agile Terminology for SAP Project Teams

We don\'t need to tell anyone who is used to working with SAP that getting the terminology right is often a daunting task. Agile project management brings with it a number of new terms that are critical to understand in order to be able to comprehend any of the detailed…

Team Structure in Agile SAP Implementation Projects

One of the first things that each software implementation project has to worry about is the general structure of the project team. We at BestXperts have tried a few different variations of project team composition over the years and can definitely attest to the fact that there is no canned project team…

September 23, 2012
Anton Karnaukhov
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As I was reading Mike Cohn\'s \"Agile Estimating and Planning\" for the last couple of days, I\'ve taken some notes that I thought were worth sharing and discussing. The later sections of the book really focus on the technical aspects of agile planning, such as using points for estimation, planning poker,…

Things you SHOULDN’T do in an agile SAP implementation

It\'s one thing to have the desire to implement SAP software in an agile way, envisioning the benefits of significantly lower cost and much happier end-users. It is a whole other thing to actually make it happen, resisting the constant desire to fall back to the old waterfall ways of…

June 20, 2012
Eric Vota
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In a meeting last week, we got into a debate about the value of tools in an organization. Specifically, we were discussing the merits of our chosen IT demand management software and Agile Project Management tool and whether or not they can be credited with the increase in productivity that our group has achieved…

Running SAP projects – the path from waterfall to agile

We at BestXperts did not adopt agile project management overnight. In fact, it took us years to come up with an approach that was both repeatable and scalable. At first we dispensed with the idea of massive upfront blueprinting and instead began to have many mini-cycles of blueprinting, realization and…

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A dinner chat with Mike Vizdos

Feature planning in an agile SAP implementation

Agile Terminology for SAP Project Teams

Team Structure in Agile SAP Implementation Projects

Constriction to Force Ourselves to Create

Things you SHOULDN’T do in an agile SAP implementation

Do Tools Matter?

Running SAP projects – the path from waterfall to agile

SAP Transportation Management Optimizer Demystified

SAP Transportation Management Ocean Planning Guide

Enterprise Architecture – The Value of Doing it Up Front

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