Agile ERP: "You don't know what you've got 'till it's gone!"

Abstract

ERP systems are known for their highly integrated nature and proprietary development tools and processes. There are a number of things we just take for granted in .Net & Java that turn out to be critical for doing agile. This paper describes the impact these implicit assumptions had on 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.