Agile ERP : “ You don ’ t know what you ’ ve got ‘ till it ’ s gone !” Product-Centric Viewpoint

Abstract

ERP systems are known for their highly integrated nature and proprietary developments tools and processes. There are a number of things we just take for granted in .Net & Java that turn out be critical for doing Agile. This paper describes the impact these implicit assumptions had an applying agile development processes on a medium-sized custom development project based on SAP NetWeaver 2004s. We describe the problems encountered and how the project team overcame them.