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Function documentationProject Management

 

SAP Solution Manager is integrated with the project management functions of SAP Portfolio and Project Management (SAP PPM), so you can manage, for example, project time, resources, and status.

Project management is integrated for the following areas of SAP Solution Manager:

For more information about SAP Portfolio and Project Management, see http://help.sap.com/ppmInformation published on SAP site

The following shows an overview of this integration:

The integration of project management allows you to do the following:

  • Enrich your solution documentation in SAP Solution Manager (branches, landscapes, and change cycles) with project management capabilities

  • Reflect business requirements in projects

  • Manage planning, timing, structuring, and coordinating of resources for a project in detail

  • Hand over your plans to realization. With time and status feedback, you can monitor the progress and resource consumption of your project.

  • Monitor the issues belonging to your project

When projects have been approved, they are associated with technical items from the system landscape and development configuration, right down to the level of deployment objects from configuration and development activities. Testing is an integral part of the project object list.

The project office has an overview of the current status of project phases and tasks, in the form of real-time data from project execution. It can control the execution of the project phases in design, build, test, hand-over to production, and deployment to production.

Features

The following scenarios are supported:

  • Project assignment: You can assign solution documentation and issue management entities to a project.

  • Implementation: To start processing this task, you can create a request for change, a change document, or an IT requirement from a project task. Therefore, you can plan a new function before implementing it. You can also assign existing transactions to a task.

  • Maintenance: You can create a project task from a request for change or a change document. This means that you can include smaller changes in your project planning and monitoring.

  • Project management without integration into other SAP Solution Manager capabilities.

When you assign projects, the following rules apply:

  • You can assign one or more projects to a branch, landscape, or change cycle. The relationship is always n:1.

  • You can assign only one request for change, one IT requirement, or change document to one project task. The relationship is always 1:1.

  • You can assign only one project task to one request for change. The relationship is always 1:1

  • Not every project type can be assigned to every branch, landscape or change cycle. The supported combinations of project types are defined in the setup. For more information, see Setting Up Project Management.

Activities

You can access projects in SAP Solution Manager from the launchpad (transaction SM_WORKCENTER), under Start of the navigation path Projects and Process Management Next navigation step My Projects End of the navigation path.

Authorization

To see the data from SAP Portfolio and Project Management in SAP Solution Manager applications, you must be authorized to display SAP projects.