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Enterprise Geeks Podcast – SAP Inside Track Sydney – Agile Development Roundtable
by Thomas Jung on April 7, 2010 at 11:13 am
Keeping with our recent topic of Agile Development, I recorded a round table discussion on the topic at the recent SAP Inside Track Sydney (which took place at the start of the Mastering SAP Technologies Conference). We had a really good discussion about Agile in the SAP space and I shared my experiences from working with the Web Dynpro ABAP foundation team, which was one of the SAP internal pilot teams for Agile during the 7.0 Enhancement Package 2 development cycle.
The Inside Track had four separate round table discussions going on at once and all in the same room. I boosted the audio levels on the recording but sometimes people farther away from the microphone asking questions or adding comments can be a bit difficult to hear.
Running Time: 50 minutes
Tags: Agile, development, Development Methodology, Development Trends
Great inside look on the way SAP implements an Agile development methodology. Thanks for posting, Thomas!
Yes – that is the cricket on the big screen in the picture – very important to know that the Aussies were giving the Kiwis a decent hammering.
Was great to hear how SAP are doing this, I wish more of my clients could be persuaded to follow this path – perhaps they will follow SAP’s lead. I hope so.
Thanks Thomas, interesting to hear about how SAP is approaching Agile internally.
You mentioned several times in the discussion how the internal SAP wiki is used as a tool. Do SAP use Atlassian Confluence internally? I am interested that SAP still does not have an ‘enterprise level’ wiki and from what I understand in the future they will just be integrating Confluence into SAP Portal. Would be interested to hear your thoughts on this decision.
I have been wondering for years why SAP didnt just buy Atlassian (but then as an aussie maybe I am just biased).
Top tip from Thomas: Use Sticky PostIt Notes, Whiteboards and digital camera to document in wiki before implementation.
After implementation generate up-to-date UML diagrams.
@Dave G: Yes I believe that our internal WIKI is based upon Atlassian Confluence. There isn’t really anything SAP specific or Software Development specific about it – the teams are just doing a good job of maintaining their Sprint documentation in this place.
> I am interested that SAP still does not have an ‘enterprise level’ wiki
I’m not really involved in that side of the business, but I suspect that there isn’t much we can add to the WIKI model – at least at a low level. You could maybe call Steamworks a somewhat Enterprise WIKI (in that it goes beyond the traditional WIKI functionality).