Week 3: Realization (Architect/Developer) Unit 8: New ...

Week 3: Realization (Architect/Developer)

Unit 8: New Features Since SP03

What’s New with Focused Build SP4?

Work Package & Work Item

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My Work Items, Solution Readiness Dashboard - New with SP04

WI Scoping – Non-Functional Work Item

Applications

My Work Items, Solution Readiness Dashboard

Features

• New WI Classification ‘Non-Functional’ where the KPI for the

Technical Design is not checked (better reporting)

• For these ‘Non-Functional’ Work Items, the corresponding KPI on

the Dates tab automatically get’s the value ‘N/A’

• The WI Classification is moved from Work Package ‘Details‘ to

‘Scope’ screen in form of a drop-down

• The WI Classification drop-down values are dependent on the WP

Classification (improved usability)

• Enhanced Work Item reporting in Solution Readiness Dashboard tile

Work Items according to the WI Classifications

Use Case

The Non-Functional Work Item allows to upload additional documents

like Test Cases in a late WP status, e.g. To Be Tested.

It prevents the unnecessary measurement of KPIs and so prevents

misleading red ratings in the Solution Readiness Dashboard for the

Technical Design.


My Work Packages, My Defect Corrections - New with SP04

Improved Search for Systems

Applications

My Work Packages, My Defect Corrections

Features

• Improved Search for Systems when creating a

General Change, Normal Change or Defect Correction

• New switch for complete search of systems or systems part of the

Release

• Improved display of the results (SID and Client separated)

• Text fragment search enabled

Use Case

Creating a Work Item end users are often not aware, which systems

are relevant. Therefore we limit the search for system results by

default for:

• General Changes -> to all systems which are part of the Change

Control Landscape and Release

• Normal Changes / Defect Corrections -> to the productive systems

which are part of the Change Control Landscape and Release


My Work Packages - New with SP04

Test Management Tab – Support edit functionality

Applications

My Work Packages

Features

In Test Management tab the edit functionality is now

supported:

• Assign Test Plans or Packages to the list

• Unassign Test Plan or Package from the list

Use Case

To give transparency for the Architect, the Test

Management Tab lists the related Test Plans and

Packages.

In case of a 1:1 relationship of Work Package and

Test Package, the assignment is done automatically

in Assignment Analysis. In case this Work Package

assignment was incorrect or changed, the Architect

can now manually remove and/or add Test Plans or

Test Packages.


Requirements Management – new with Focused Build SP05

Requirement Upload Report

Applications

Requirements Management, Upload report

/SALM/Requirement_Import

Features

• Additional options how to handle the

Requirement Owner field

• Overwrite existing with current logon user

• Keep original Business Partner

• Check and take-over in case Business Partner

exists in source and target system

• Complete Requirements with current logon user in

case the Business Partner is not maintained

• Extended consistency checks

• Completeness of obligatory fields

• Duplicate Requirements

• Success of Process Structure mapping

(creation of standalone Requirement)

Use CaseThe extended checks ensure better data quality

and less clean-up effort after the upload


My Requirements, My Work Packages, My Work Items – new with SP05

Extended Change History

Applications

My Requirements, My Work Packages, My Work Items

and the related CRM Web UI

Features

The change history has been extended by the following

values

• Requirement

• Value Points, Effort Points, Local Flag

• Work Package

• Value Points, Effort Points, PPM Project, Wave, Dates

• Work Item

• Value Points, Story Points, Dates

Use CaseE.g. in My Requirements app several fields are open for

changes after approval. As it is compliance relevant, a

Change History is needed to see, if and who changed

the values at a later point in time.


Requirement Management, My Work Packages – new with SP05

Create Work Package - Solution Filter for Project Display

Applications

Requirement Management, My Work Packages

Features

Creating new Work Packages, you need to choose a project.

Now the Project selection is limited to Projects part of the

selected Solution

Use Cases

• Use Case 1:

In case in Requirements Management there is a filter set for one

Solution and you select one or more Requirements from the result list

-> in Project selection pop-up, only projects assigned to this one

Solution are displayed

• Use Case 2:

In case of standalone WP

-> in Project selection pop-up, all projects of all Solutions are shown

• Use Case 3:

In case there is no Solution filter selected and there are Requirements

of more than 1 Solution selected

-> pop-up informing, that it is not allowed to create Work Packages of

different Solutions

What’s New with Focused Build SP6



Work Package & Work Item – new with Focused Build SP6

Modified Preliminary Import Workflow

Applications

My Work Packages, My Work Items

Features

Work Items can only be preliminary imported to Production in case

there is a 1:1-relationship between Work Package and Work Item. As

soon as the Preliminary Import is requested in the Work Item the Work

Package now reflects this status as well.

Use Case

A Work Package should be treated as a complete unit where all related

Work Items are tested and deployed together. With the possibility of the

preliminary import workflow it was possible to bypass this idea which

led to inconsistent system landscapes, as parts of a Work Package

were already in Production System while other parts were still in

Development. With the limitation of the preliminary import option to 1:1-

relationships between Work Packages and Work Items we ensure

consistent system landscapes as a Work Package is always

transported and tested as a complete package.

WP

WI

WI


Work Item – new with Focused Build SP6

Reassignment of Work Items

Applications

My Work Items

Features

The Reassignment of Work Items is a functionality offered for the

Focused Build Tool Lead in exceptional cases to decouple and assign

a Work Item from one Work Package to another, e.g. in case a Work

Item cannot be finished in time while the other Work Items of the same

Work Package could be deployed to Production System.

Use Case

The reassignment-functionality is a powerful tool that must be used

with great care. To avoid inconsistent Work Packages / Work Items the

reassign-functionality is limited by the following points:

▪ The functionality is only available from the CRM UI

▪ Only Work Items before status ‘Handed over to Release’ can be

reassigned

▪ Reassignment is only possible if the related Work Package has more

than one Work Item assigned

▪ The target Work Package must be in status ‘to be developed’ or ‘in

Development’

▪ The required authorization object REASSIGN_WI is delivered by

default in the role of the Focused Build Tool Lead

WP WI



Display Long Text Information of Error Messages in UI5

Applications

My Requirements, My Work Packages, My Work Items,

My Defects, My Defect Corrections, My Risks, My

Requests for Change, My Change Documents

Features

When an error or warning message is raised in UI5-

application a link is visible in the popup to get the

helpful long text information displayed.

Use CaseSo far the valuable long text information of a warning or

error message were only available in the CRM UI. End

users need to jump from the UI5-application to CRM UI

to get this information displayed. Now there is an

additional link in the short text window of the message

available that opens the long text information directly in

the UI5-application.



Automated setting of completion rate to 100%

Applications


Features

When a Work Item or a Work Package is set to

‘Successfully tested’ the completion rate is set

automatically to 100%.

Use CaseThe completion rate is not always used by customers or

the project team. As a consequence the field remains 0

although the development of the Work Item has been

finished or the test of the Work Package was successful

which lead to incorrect reporting in the Solution

Readiness Dashboard. Also the tile ‘Current Wave

Progress’ shows a more accurate result if the

completion rate is automatically filled.



New validation for completed checklist

Applications


Features

When a Work Item or a Work Package is set to

‘Successfully tested’ it is checked whether all checklist

steps have been completed. If not an error message is

raised and the status is not set.

Use CaseA Work Package or Work Item can only be completed if

all related items are closed. Also checklist steps are

checked if they are finalized, if this is not the case the

completed status is not set. This caused problems in

the past as the Completed-status is usually set via the

Release Batch Import automatically after the successful

import in the Production System. An open checklist step

prevented this and led to manual extra work after the

Go-Live. With the new check we inform Developers and

Solution Architects at the right time about open items.



Show ToCs in Transport Tab in UI5 Application

Applications

My Work Items

Feature details

In the My Work Items Application it is possible to check directly the

information of a Transport of Copy created automatically by the system

in case the Work Item (NC) has been set to ‘To be Tested’.

Use Case

In the course of an implementation project developers are regularly

asking the Focused Build or Basis Team about the status of a

Transport Request as they are missing a configuration or development

in the Quality Assurance System. To get the information e.g. about a

non-imported Transport of Copy developers had to go to the Advanced

view in CRM UI to get the ID. With the new implementation the

information can be directly retrieved from the My Work Items

Application.



Activate Jump from UI5 to Transport details

Applications

My Work Items

Feature details

In the My Work Items Application it is possible to access directly the

Transport Request related information like included objects or

Transport Logs without making a detour via the CRM UI.

Use Case

The Transport Request Details are an important information for the

developers, e.g. to check the content of the different Transport Tasks,

perform syntax and completeness checks or to see the Transport Log

Information in case an import was not successfully imported. By having

the possibility to access these information directly from the My Work

Items application instead of going to the Advanced view in CRM UI we

increase the acceptance of the UI5-application.



Maintain effort - only allow hours and consulting days

Applications


Feature details

The maintenance of planned and actual effort is by default limited to

Consulting Days and Hours. Customers can enhance the list of

available time units themselves.

Use Case

The maintenance of Planned and Actual Effort was not unified in My

Work Packages, My Work Items and the CRM UI. In addition, the list of

available time units was confusing for the end users. Now, by default,

only Consulting Days and Hours are available for time maintenance in

all Applications. Customers can change or enhance the list via

customizing and also the sequence of the time units can be specified.



Maintain checklist - introduce save-button

Applications


Feature details

A Save-button has been introduced to ease the maintenance of the

checklist steps by avoiding save-roundtrips after every field-update.

Use Case

Checklist Steps help to perform and document required steps in the

processing of a Work Package or Work Item with a due date. Work

Packages and Work Items are delivered with a preconfigured checklist

profile that can be easily adjusted by customers via customizing. In the

My Work Package / My Work Item application the maintenance of the

checklist steps has been improved by providing Save- and Cancel-

Buttons instead of an automatic save-trigger after every field update.



Provide a Test Team in Work Item

Applications

My Work Items

Feature details

The new partner function Test Team is introduced that allows the

assignment of Work Items to teams instead of only single testers.

Use Case

As for the Development Teams, customers organize also their testers

in teams. As Work Items could be also tested not only by developers it

is required to make the assignment of Test Teams possible so that the

members of this team can organize their work according to availability

and current load.



Improve WP Checks for Project and Wave Selection – My WP App & Mass Change

Applications

My Work Packages

Feature details

When a Work Package gets a Solution Documentation Scope inherited

from the Requirement the Project Selection is improved. By default,

only Projects should be displayed that have this Scope assigned. When

the switch is set to Off additional projects without this scope, but from

the same solution are displayed. This will always ensure that the

project assignment is consistent.

Use Case

Scopes help the project team to split up a huge solution documentation

into smaller packages to support the users focusing on a specific

scenario, e.g. Order to Cash. This scope can be assigned to a project

as well. When now the Work Package gets a process step with a

specific scope, in the search help we offer by default only projects that

have this specific scope assigned. To be not too restrictive the option to

consider the documentation scope can be switched off to see other

projects.


Application

My Work Packages

Feature details

The new partner function Test Team is introduced that allows the assignment of Work Packages to teams.

Benefits / Use Case

As for the Development Teams, customers organize also their testers in teams. As Work Packages could be also tested it is required to make the assignment of Test Teams possible so that the members of this team can organize their work according to availability and current load. Also, the Test Team will be copied to the scoped Work Items


Provide a test-team in Work Package


Application

My Work Packages

Feature details

The new fields are taking over the already

maintained values as default values which can be

adjusted.

Benefits / Use Case

While the scoping process value points are taken

over from the Work Package. Afterwards value

and story points can be adjusted for distribution

over the scoped Work Items.


Provide Story and Value points via scope pop-up


My Checklist Steps


Application

My Checklist Steps is an entry point to access all

checklist steps to that a user is assigned to.

Feature details

▪ Switch between My Steps and Team Steps

▪ Filter possibilities

▪ Processing of steps in the overview

▪ Navigation to checklist step details

▪ Navigation to parent document

Benefits / Use Case

Central point to access all checklist steps you are

assigned to.

My Checklist Steps – new with Focused Build SP8

New application for Checklist Steps


Process Management


Process Management – new with Focused Build SP04

Composite interface and Test scripts

Application

dropDocs integration to Work Package and

Work Item

Feature details

• Possibility to address composite interfaces in

Requirement, Work Package and Item

• Visibility of test scripts (CBTA) and recognition

for KPI rating (CBTA + Test Steps)

Use Case

Completing of coverage solution documentation

objects, which can be handled by Focus Build.



Scope and structure scope popup

Application

Solution Documentation “Scope” integration into

Requirement to deploy and process scope popup

harmonization.

Feature details

• Possibility to select solution documentation

“Scope” on the process scope popup. This is

impacting the displayed content.

• Storage of the “Scope” information to all

selected structures on the scoping popup

and in the process assignment area.

Use Case

Simplification of structure assignments and

project selection for projects with assigned

Solution Documentation “Scope”.



Availability of dropDocs

Application

Availability of documentation tab for additional

CRM transaction types:

- Request for Change

- Standard/urgent change

- Defect correction

Feature details

• Possibility to access and change

documentation.

• No impact on KPI rating

Use Case

Unification of UI design for additional CRM

transaction types.


Process Management



Language recognition and performance improvements

Application

dropDocs integration to Work Package and

Work Item

Feature details

• Improvements on structure assignment popup

• Language recognition on documentation tab

• Performance improvements for document handling and KPI

Use Case

Visibility of already scoped structures on structure assignment

popup and visibility of maintained languages and translations.


Process Management


Application

dropDocs integration to Work Package and Work Item

Feature details

▪ Un-assign of structures in Work Package and Work

Item

▪ Move of structures in Work Items

▪ Status display and direct status change for Test

Steps

Use Case

Quick changes on Test Step status trough Work

Package and Item as well as harmonized un-

assignment of structures and documents.

Simplification of move structures between Work Items.


Status change for Test Step and structure related activities


Process Management



Reporting dashboard and handling improvements

Application

dropDocs integration to Work Package and Work Item.

Feature details

• Availability of Documentation Reporting

Dashboard

• Release check of structures in Work Items to detect

release conflicts

• FB specific related documents display per branch

• Customer status schema recognition for KPI and

Solution Readiness Dashboard as well as unlocking

of documents

Use Case

Simplification of activities around documentation

handling and reporting.



Documentation Reporting Dashboard

Application

Documentation Reporting Dashboard

Feature details

Using the Business Process Readiness report as part of

Documentation Reporting Dashboard you can detect the

current status of implementation from business process

perspective.

Running the report for design branch, it provides all

Requirements and Work Packages which are planed for the

selected scope. Executing the same selection for

development branch gives an overview about current active

implementation. Once the process arrived in production

branch, the report gives an absolute number of

Requirements, Work Packages and Items for certain scope.

Benefits

Simplified method to report on the current state of

implementation for a specific business process scope.



Release check

Application

dropDocs integration to Work Item.

Feature details

• Detection of all objects changed or created by

current Work Item

• Detection of all potential obstacles for Work Item

release before hand over to release.

Use Case

This functionality can be used as final documentation

check before handing over the Work Item to Release.



Focused Build specific related documents

Application

Solution Documentation

Feature details

• Visibility of new Focused Build specific related

documents:

• (FB) Request for Change

• (FB) Change Document

• Changes on visibility and counting method for

• Requirements

• Work Package

• Work Item

Benefits Better visibility of associated related documents to

selected structure.



Customer status schema and unlocking of documents

Application

dropDocs integration to Work Package and Work

Item.

Feature details

• Enablement to use customer specific status

schemas for document types

• Reflection of customer status values by KPI

calculation and Solution Readiness Dashboard

• Possibility to unlock locked documents directly from

Work Package or Work Item.

Benefits

Handling simplification to unlock documents and

extended flexibility in use of customer status values

for documents.


Process Management


Application

Business Process Readiness Dashboard is

improved by additional filtering capabilities.

Feature details

- Additional selection of business processes as

filtering criteria

- Display of project ID in the result table

Benefits / Use Case

Better results due to the extended filter possibility

and more information in the result table for

additional result processing.


Improvements in BP-Readiness Dashboard

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Application

dropDocs integration for to Requirements, Work Package and Work Items

Feature details

In case relevant structures for a certain Work Package/Item has been deleted in one of following waves:

- the deleted structure will be still displayed in the according Requirement, Work Package/Item

- Click on relevant document from WP/WI opensthe document in the version which was valid asthe WP/WI has been completed.

Benefits / Use Case

- Visibility of related but deleted structures.- Access to the correct document version once the WP/WI is completed


Display of deleted objects from Work Package/Item

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Application

Related documents for Focused Build related objects has been changed.

Feature details

Depending on the branch from which the related document type is called, different overview possibilities are displayed: - Design => Requirements Management- Development => Mass change app- Production => Mass change app

Benefits / Use Case

Clear visibility of related Requirements, Work Packages and Items for selected solution documentation structure and synchronicity with Business Process Readiness Dashboard.


Navigation from Related Documents area

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Mass Change Operations


Mass Change, Requirements Management - New with SP04

Value, Effort, Story Points default value ranges

Applications

Requirements Management, Mass Change Operations

Features

• Customizing table for Value, Effort, Story Points

ranges

• Mass Change: Extended Filter and Display Options for

Value, Effort and Story Points ranges

• Example customizing available via BC-Set

Use Case

The range selection in the Mass Change offers an

efficient filtering based on the predefined values, e.g.:

• to define Initial Backlog in Requirements Management

based on Requirements, Value and Effort Points

• to define Product Backlog in Mass Change Operations

based on Work Packages, Value and Effort Points

• to do Sprint planning in Mass Change Operations

based on Work Items, Story Points


My Work Items - New with SP04

Display Role for Mass Change

Applications

My Requirements, My Work Packages, My Work Items,


Features

• Add Mass Change Operations tile has been added to the

following persona: Project Manager, Developer, Test

Manager, Tool Lead

• Sharpened authorization concept dependent on

Document Type, e.g. Defect or Work Package

Use Case

Allows other project members either to display of Mass

Change Operations data, e.g. the developer to check Work

Items in status Postponed.

Other persona got change authorization, e.g. the Test

Manager to mass change the support team for some

Defects


Mass Change – new with Focused Build SP6

Improved Display of Column ‘Release’

Applications

Mass Change

Features

Improved display of Release information in columns:

• Actual Release

• Requested Release

Harmonization of Release display, e.g. in the value help,

the Release is now displayed as a three-digit number to

the right of the description

Use CaseIn Mass Change - Actual and Requested Release:

In the result lists, the Release is displayed as a three-digit

number.

The full Release description is displayed via tooltip.

This reduces the table widths and allows to display more

results, especially on smaller screens


Applications

Mass Change

Features

New filter possibility ‘Sub-Elements’

introduced for:

• Requirements

New filter possibility ‘Sub-Categories’

introduced for:

• Requirements

• Work Packages

• Work Items

• Defects

• Defect Corrections

• Change Requests

• Changes

• Risk

Use CaseAllows more granular filtering like in Requirements

Management application.


New filter for Sub-Elements and Sub-Categories



Filter & View variants for Mass Change

Applications

Mass Change

Feature details

For all Mass Change Document Types it is now

possible to save private and global:

• Filter settings

• View Settings

Use CaseLike in Requirements Management, the Filter Variant

allows an end user to save typical filter settings, e.g.

for a Project Manager to regularly check, if there are

Requirements in Status ‘To Be Approved’ for the

Business Process in his responsibility.

As well the view of the displayed columns can be

saved. This is important as the space to display the

content is limited.

Both features extremely accelerate the search and

display of the required content.



Allow filtering for multiple IDs and fragments

Applications

Mass Change

Feature details

Using filter ‘ID’ it is now possible to search with:

• Multiple IDs, e.g. 8000004711, 8000004712

• Fragments of an ID, e.g. 4711

• Multiple ID fragments, e.g. 4711, 4712

Use CaseIn Mass Change Operations it is now possible

to filter for ID fragments or multiple IDs like in

Requirements Management.


Solution Readiness Dashboard


Solution Readiness Dashboard - New with SP04

Missing KPI displayed in Tiles

Applications


Features

• New bar ‘Milestone Missing’ for the tiles Functional Specification, Technical

Design, Development, Unit Test and Single Functional Test Case

• The ‘Overdue’ values are recalculated

Use Case

Beforehand badly maintained and overdue Work Packages and Work Items

had been summarized in the ‘Overdue’ bar.

With the additional bar you can clearly distinguish:

• The Project Manager immediately recognizes when he missed to maintain

the KPIs in Project Management.

• The Architect and Developer get a clean list of their overdue documents.


Solution Readiness Dashboard – new with Focused Build SP5

Usability and performance improvements of extraction report

Default variant of extraction report /SALM/DATA_EXTRACTION_PPMITSM to be scheduled via Job Scheduler (SM36):

All Focused Build projects with status ‘Created’ or ‘Released’

are considered by the default variant ‘FOCUSED_BUILD1’

Variant can be changed to allow extraction for dedicated

projects based on project id or status.

E.g. if you like to keep data also for completed projects you can

adapt the variant accordingly.

Depending on the amount of projects, requirements, work

packages etc. you might face longer runtime of the batch job.

With the default variant, the extraction is processed in parallel

and uses 50 % of available work processes.

This option extracts only data that has been changed since last

extraction to save runtime. Only deactivate this option when

necessary due to issues.

Focused Build data to be selected for Solution Readiness and

Release Dashboard



Usability and performance improvements of extraction data housekeeping report

Report /SALM/DATA_EXTRACTION_DELETE can be used on demand to cleanup extraction data for un-used

projects or compress transactional historic data on a weekly base

If selected, project data with below criteria are deleted from extraction data.

If selected, transactional data from time frame above are compressed, so

only one entry of a weeks state of an entity will be kept.

Time frame for aggregation of transactional historic data

Selection criteria for projects to be deleted from extractor data

Project ID - Here you choose the Project IDs for the projects, which will be

deleted. When the field is empty, all project with the chosen project status

are deleted.

Project Status - Here you choose the Project Status Values for the projects,

which will be deleted. Default: Completed, Canceled, To be Archived

Data are only deleted, when both conditions are fulfilled.



Work Package tile – additional information on actual vs. planned effort

Application

Effort reporting in Work Package tile

Feature details

New effort tab highlighting planned and actual

effort per Wave

Addition column for actual effort per Work

Package in Details tab

Use Case

Realistic Wave planning based on Planned Effort

Monitoring of actual effort per Wave

Drill down to detail information on actual effort vs.

planned effort per Work Package



Current Wave Progress tile

Application

New Current Wave Progress with bar charts

Feature details

Visualized progress for current Wave using

snapshot of status of related Work Packages per

day

Similar view on Work Items per Wave and per

Sprint

Use Case

Improved transparency on progress during Wave

and Sprints about various activities reflected by

historic status values

Work Packages status values are aggregated:

Successfully Tested: Successfully Tested, Handed over to Release,

Productive, Completed

In Development: To be Developed, In Development, In Repair,

To be Tested

Scoping: Scoping, Scope Finalized, Scope Extension

Created: Created



Realtime update of Dashboard data

Applications


Realtime update and refresh of Dashboard data for Focused Build

entities

Feature Details

The data displayed in the Solution Readiness is provided by extractor

and caching tables which have been updated by batch jobs in the past.

This has been enhanced by a event triggered update and refresh

feature in order to get real-time data shown in the dashboard for

following Focused Build entities:

• Requirements , Work Packages and Work Items

• Defect Corrections

• Projects and Risks

Data refresh can be controlled for the currently selected project by a

timer via new button in the dashboard and typically has a delay of 10 –

40 seconds depending on size of project.

Benefit

Improved monitoring and transparency about implementation progress

and KPI fulfillment with real-time data



Improved Export to spreadsheet feature

Applications

Solution Readiness Dashboard - Export to Spreadsheet

Feature details

Export CSV has been replaced by Export to spreadsheet

for all list views in the dashboard

Benefit

After export the spreadsheet can be directly opened without

conversion. Filter is active by default using the header row

(1). No problems with special characters.



Work Item tile - Display classification column N/A dynamically

Applications

Solution Readiness Dashboard – Work Item tile

Feature details

The column ‘N/A’ for Work Item Classification is displayed dynamically

depending whether Work Items without Classification exist or not.

Use Case

With Support Package 3 of Focused Build a gap was closed in the

functionality where Work Items could be created without a

classification. Such Work Items were listed in the Solution Readiness

Dashboard in the column ‘N/A’. Customers starting with Support

Package 3 or later have always seen zero Work Items in that column.

With the new enhancement the column ‘N/A’ is dynamically displayed,

if no Work Items exist in a project without classification the column is

not shown.



Current Wave Progress tile

Application

Enhanced Current Wave Progress

Feature details

Customizable status grouping

• 4 predefined status groups

• Selectable semantic colors: Positive, Neutral,

Information, Critical, Negative

• Mapping of detailed status per transaction type to

status group

Benefit

Improved flexibility for sematic rating in

progress chart

Default Work Packages status mapping and colors:

Successfully Tested: Successfully Tested, Handed over to Release,

Productive, Completed

In Development: To be Developed, In Development, In Repair,

To be Tested

Scoping: Scoping, Scope Finalized, Scope Extension

Created: Created



Current Wave Progress tile - Details

New IMG activity to change settings for predefined Status Groups

Ability to change sematic color for Status Group

Map detailed status per transaction type (status profile) to status group



Documentation KPI relevant SRD tiles

Application

KPI relevant SRD tiles

Feature details

For better understanding, the documentation KPI

related tiles has been regrouped and renamed

according to the KPI names.

Benefit

Improved overview of document KPI tiles



Defect Corrections in SFT tile

Applications

Defect Corrections in SFT tile

Feature details

• ‘For the tile ‘Defect Corrections in Single

Functional Test’ the following functionality is

available with Focused Build SP7:

• Navigation to Mass Change Operations App for Defect

Corrections for the following bars of the tile:

• To be done

• Overdue

• Export to MS EXCEL for all bars of the tile.

Benefit

• Seamless Integration between Solution Readiness

Dashboard and Mass Change Operations App for

Defect Corrections in relevant (user) status.

• Export to MS EXCEL is available for all bars of this

tile.


S/4HANA Conversion Project Support


Application

Simplification Item Management

Feature details

The new Refresh button allows to get the latest status of Simplification Items, Conversion Activities and follow-up documents without the need of performing a browser refresh. This refresh is faster and keeps the current applied filters and view settings.

Benefits / Use Case

When processing Conversion Activities and their related follow-up documents it is important to regularly update the table view to get the most recent status of all documents. This refresh must be optimized from a performance perspective which the new refresh-functionality offers.

S/4HANA Conversion Project Support – new with Focused Build SP8

Refresh-Functionality


Application


Feature details

Via the Messages-button it is possible to see

relevant backend-information.

Benefits / Use Case

When creating Follow-Up Documents, assigning

or reassigning Activities or assigning projects data

will be processed in the backend. With the new

feature it is directly possible in the frontend to

identify whether a step was successful or not, e.g.

in case the user has no appropriate

authorizations to perform a specific step.


Enhancement of Log-Information


Application


Feature details

Activities with small efforts that are also related to each other can be merged into one Follow-Up Document.

Benefits / Use Case

So far it was only possible to create one Follow-Up Document per Activity. Usually there are Activities which do have a rather small implementation effort where it makes sense to combine several of them in one Follow-Up Document to not get too granular in the Requirements-to-Deploy-process. This is now possible with the n:1-creation.


Combine several activities in one Follow-Up Document


Application


Feature details

Created Requirements or Work Packages can be handed over from the Simplification Item Management application to the Mass Change Application for further processing.

Benefits / Use Case

This feature allows an easier Release Backlog Planning on Requirements or Wave Backlog Planning on Work Packages. Based on attributes of the related Simplification Items and Conversion Activities (e.g. Condition or Phase) a set of Work Packages can be handed over to the Mass Change Application where they are assigned to a specific Project and Wave.


Integration in Mass Change Application


Application


Feature details

Activities without a Follow-Up Document can be assigned to an already created one. If the assignment to or the creation of a Follow-Up document was done incorrectly a reassignment to a different Follow-Up Document can be done.

Benefits / Use Case

A common Readiness Check Analysis consists of more than 100 Simplification Items and related Activities. It is likely to happen that during the creation of Follow-Up Documents Activities are forgotten or that in the course of the processing of the Follow-Up Documents additional Activities should be part of the selected scope. The assign/reassign functionality allows a higher flexibility and offers an option for the correct scope.


Assignment and Reassignment of Activities


Application


Feature details

It can be decided per Readiness Check Analysis which transaction types are allowed as Follow-Up Type. By default these are Requirements and Work Packages plus the assignment of Projects. Via Customizing own transaction types can be chosen and the assignment of projects can be active or inactive.

Benefits / Use Case

Customers who are going to perform a S/4HANA transformation project can use Focused Build as predefined methodology. But especially customers that already have a mature Change Request Management process in place want to use their settled, accepted and well-known process also in this S/4HANA transformation project. With the possibility to define custom transaction types as Follow-Up Document Types customers are enabled to use the Readiness Check Integration with their individual processes.


Integration of custom transaction types

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