The company needed one single methodology for managing both SAP and non-SAP development projects. The company deployed an IT Project Book that provides a set of templates to incorporate the best practices of SAP's ASAP methodology and the PMBOK. This allowed the Company to focus on one methodology, while utilizing SAP s Solution Manager tool to maintain project management artifacts.
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