ACT100 – SAP Activate Methodology — Lesson 2: Discover and Prepare, Business Case, Project Setup, Planning, Team Enablement, and Standards

Learning Objectives

• Explain the SAP structures, data, settings, roles, and dependencies governing Discover and Prepare activities.
• Perform and validate project setup, planning, and standards using reviewable system evidence.
• Evaluate the condition where a project passes a phase review despite unresolved scope, design, testing, cutover, and adoption dependencies and select proportionate corrective action.

Detailed Topics

• Discover and Prepare applied to the course scenario, expected SAP behavior, dependencies, and evidence.
• Business Case applied to the course scenario, expected SAP behavior, dependencies, and evidence.
• Project Setup applied to the course scenario, expected SAP behavior, dependencies, and evidence.
• Planning applied to the course scenario, expected SAP behavior, dependencies, and evidence.
• Team Enablement applied to the course scenario, expected SAP behavior, dependencies, and evidence.
• and Standards applied to the course scenario, expected SAP behavior, dependencies, and evidence.

Instructor Demonstration

The instructor traces an implementation team establishing a common delivery model for scope decisions, backlog control, testing, cutover, and operational readiness. The walkthrough connects navigation, configuration or process logic, system messages, and evidence captured in the ACT100 phase, deliverable, quality-gate, and governance playbook. It also tests the exception where a project passes a phase review despite unresolved scope, design, testing, cutover, and adoption dependencies.

Hands-On Exercise

Complete a controlled SAP exercise covering Discover and Prepare, Business Case, Project Setup, Planning, Team Enablement, and Standards and preserve the verified result in the ACT100 phase, deliverable, quality-gate, and governance playbook.

1. Confirm scope, prerequisites, master data, roles, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
2. Execute the workflow while recording settings, transactions, outputs, and system messages.
3. Test normal behavior, one boundary condition, and the stated exception.
4. Document corrections, evidence, ownership, retest criteria, and handover actions.

Scenario Analysis

• Identify which object, rule, setting, or process step most strongly influences Discover and Prepare activities.
• Compare two defensible responses and explain business, technical, control, and support trade-offs.
• Determine how the ACT100 phase, deliverable, quality-gate, and governance playbook should be approved, retained, retested, and updated.

Troubleshooting Guidance

Start where expected SAP behavior first differs from the observed result. Check master data, configuration sequence, authorization, integration, status, and transaction evidence separately. Treat “a project passes a phase review despite unresolved scope, design, testing, cutover, and adoption dependencies” as a hypothesis until system settings, logs, documents, and outcomes confirm the cause.

Validation Checklist

• Required SAP structures, master data, roles, settings, and dependencies are present.
• The ACT100 phase, deliverable, quality-gate, and governance playbook connects each conclusion to objective, reviewable evidence.
• Normal processing, the boundary condition, integration behavior, and exception were tested.
• Corrections, ownership, retest criteria, documentation, and operational handover are complete.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Discover and Prepare, Business Case, Project Setup, Planning, Team Enablement, and Standards, explain the resulting SAP behavior, and defend the outcome through the ACT100 phase, deliverable, quality-gate, and governance playbook.