Setting Up Quality Gates and Assigning Project Phases

You use quality gates (Q-Gates) to indicate the end of a phase in SAP Solution Manager and to release the next phase of your project. This means that the import of transport requests is not possible until the Q-Gate immediately preceding it has been passed.

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In addition to the Q-Gates delivered by SAP, you can also specify your own Q-Gates. For more information, see Project Management Using Quality Gate Management.

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Prerequisites

Using the project administration transaction SOLAR_PROJECT_ADMIN, you must have created the projects that you want to manage with quality gate management.

Procedure

Access the list of projects in the Change Management work center, and choose a project. If necessary, you can use the filter options at the top of the page to limit the number of projects displayed.
Choose Set up Quality Gate Management . A guided procedure enables you to perform the steps required to maintain your project using quality gate management.

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If you have already entered data in project administration that is related to QGM, this data is displayed in the steps of the guided procedure. In addition, you can display detailed information for every step by choosing Expand tray in the Instructions section.

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In Step 1, Define Q-Gates and Milestones, you specify the Q-Gate and milestone data for the project.
- To specify your own milestones as Q-Gates, choose Add Milestone, enter a name for the milestone, and set the flag in the Q-Gate column.
- Enter the planned deadlines for all Q-Gates and milestones.
  
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  The deadlines of the Q-Gates delivered by SAP must be in the correct sequence. For more information, see Project Management Using Quality Gate Management.
  
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- You can upload template documents for each Q-Gate. Select the row of the Q-Gate and choose Upload Template.
  
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  The system administrator uploads the template documents into the system. These are documents that can be used as templates by the project team members, who can download and upload them from the Open Q-Gate window.
  
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Select Next to go to Step 2, Set Quality Manager. Here, enter the name of the quality manager and the person responsible from the quality advisory board. To do this, you have the following options:
- Select a user from the list previously maintained in project administration.
- If the user name is known, enter it directly in the field.
- Use the search function to find and enter a user.
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The Manager Change Log pushbutton opens a dialog box in which you can see whether a manager was reassigned.

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In Step 3, Check Transport Landscape, you can display the system transport landscape that is assigned to the project. The logical components assigned to your project are displayed in the top section. If you select a row, the corresponding system information (system / client / system role) for each logical component is displayed in the bottom section.

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Only logical components that have been assigned to the project in project administration are displayed.

In the Include in Project column, you can see whether a systems in a logical component assigned to the project are enabled for QGM. You have to set the checkmark for it in project administration (transaction SOLAR_PROJECT_ADMIN), under System Landscape Systems Change-Relevant .

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In Step 4, Assign Q-Gates to System Roles, you specify which Q-Gate is to be passed for which system. When defining the logical components, each system is assigned to a system role. By connecting system roles to Q-Gates, you define which Q-Gate has to be passed before transports into the respective systems are allowed. The corresponding QGM project phases are displayed as they are related to the Q-Gates in the Phase column.
Select the Enable the Transport of Copies Import in Build Phase checkbox if you want to make importing of transports of copies possible.

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By default, the checkbox is not selected.

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In the last step, Confirm Data, you can check whether the data entered is correct.

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You can only display this data graphically in the Web browser.

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If the data is correct, save your entries with Finish.

Result

Your project is now activated and ready for use in quality gate management.

Example

The system has four system roles: Development, quality, preproduction, and production. You have the following options:

To put the preproduction system in the test phase, assign the Test to Deploy Q-Gate to the Production System role.

To put the preproduction system in the deploy phase, assign the Test to Deploy Q-Gate to the Preproduction System role.

Caution Caution

The Q-Gate assignment must be done when entering the Q-Gate data sequentially for each system. The dates provided must follow the proper sequence of the Quality Gates.

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