Managing Projects

Project managers can use the Project Management - Focused Build Projects application and the project management functions of SAP Portfolio and Project Management (SAP PPM ) integrated in SAP Solution Manager to plan and maintain projects.

Project Management - Focused Build Projects

The Project Management - Focused Build Projects application is designed for planning and scheduling Focused Build projects. You can perform all essential project management activities with this application. For some advanced activities, for example maintaining relationships between project elements, you navigate directly to the standard Project Management UI in SAP Solution Manager.

For more information about this application, see Project Management - Focused Build Projects.

Project Management in SAP Solution Manager

SAP Solution Manager is integrated with the project management functions of SAP Portfolio and Project Management (SAP PPM). You can access the standard Project Management UI by choosing My Projects on the SAP Solution Manager launchpad. In Focused Build, the standard Project Management UI is extended by additional functions, such as the integration of risk management and test management and the linking with related work packages.

The projects are structured in phases, project tasks and subtasks, and milestones. In the Focused Build project templates, the waves and sprints are task types and the quality gates are a milestone type. When you open a project in the Project Management UI, you can see the project structure in the Structure - Detail view. There you can edit the structure of a project by adding, deleting, or moving the project elements and you can select and edit individual project elements.

If you have opened a project in the standard Project Management UI, you can choose Open in UI5 App to view the same project in the Project Management - Focused Build Projects app.

Activities

For Focused Build projects, you perform the following activities:

Create projects

To create a project, you have three options:
- By template
- By user input
- By using the Easy Project Setup
For more information, see Creating Focused Build Projects
Assign build projects to main project
Edit project structures

You adapt the preconfigured project structure to the actual project scope by adding or deleting waves, sprints, or milestones. For more information, see Adjusting the Project Structure for Waves and Sprints
Assign releases to the projects

You assign a release component and a release to a project and you specify the releases in which the waves are implemented. For more information, see Assigning Projects and Waves to Releases.
Schedule project tasks and milestones

You can schedule individual project dates manually.
Release your projects

When you release a project, the work packages assigned to the project can be processed. Only when the project is released, is the project data visible in the Solution Readiness Dashboard and other dashboard applications of Focused Build.
Manage risks and issues

For more information, see Managing Risks and Issues.

You can also do the following in the standard Project Management UI:

Create and maintain relationships between project elements

You can map the dependencies between the project elements by configuring predecessor and successor relationships for each project task or milestone on the Relationships tab page of the Detail view of the standard Project Management UI. For example, you can configure that a specific quality gate has to be finished before a new project phase starts.
Include work packages in the project structure

You can display the work packages assigned to the project and you can add the work packages as project tasks to the project structure. For more information, see Adding Work Packages to the Project Structure.