SAP Cloud ALM Adoption

Use Case - Implement

Agile Projects
SAP

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SAP Cloud ALM Adoption Use Case | Implement Agile Projects

WHY IS IT IMPORTANT FOR YOU

SAP Cloud ALM is an out-of-the-box, native cloud solution, designed as the central entry point to support your SAP implementation project.
SAP Cloud ALM is included in your cloud subscription and in SAP Enterprise Support, you own it already!

How SAP Helps You E2E Process Flow

You get an overview of how SAP Cloud ALM support your requirement driven
development in agile way.

Target Solutions Key Personas

Project Lead Business Process Expert Consulting Expert Test Lead Testers
SAP or Non SAP solutions without specific SAP best practice content
Release and Deployment Lead

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Implement Agile Projects
Challenges and Business Drivers
Business Challenges:
• Reporting effort: a lot of resources needed to maintain the excel trackers of solution implementation
and keep them in synch, no live reporting
• Reporting risk: risk of reporting errors due to manual maintenance and difficult harmonization of excel
files
• Missing transparency and inefficient communication between whole project team, due to missing
end-to-end traceability of tasks and documents for regular project team members
• High Cost with different tools during the whole project life cycle
Solution Overview
SAP Cloud ALM for implementation provides the harmonized implementation for the intelligent enterprise,
covering all relevant SAP solutions for cloud centric projects
• Process management: Model your business processes using the BPMN notation
• Requirement Management: Centrally collect and maintain your business requirements
• Project Management: Manage your project using agile methodologies with releases, sprints, user
stories and story points
• Test Management: Prepare and execute tests for manual testing and integration of automated testing
tools

• Change & Deploy Management: Change enablement and deployment planning and tracking
• Analytics: Use Integrated analytics to make it easier for all project members to understand KPIs and
their impact on the implementation project
Business Benefits
• Instantly available, no deployment or configuration activities
Additional Context
• Fast onboarding of your project team
• SAP Cloud ALM is part of SAP Enterprise Support. The usage rights are included in the SAP Cloud
• Fast time-to-value through guidance and task-driven implementation Service subscription and in SAP Enterprise Support. You can learn more about the usage rights of SAP
Cloud ALM here
• Easy and quick assignment of project tasks • For more information about Tricentis Test Automation for SAP Integrated with SAP Cloud ALM, refer
here.
• Comprehensive workspace for requirement planning workshops • Further Information on Cloud ALM Implementation can be found on our SAP Cloud ALM for
Implementation Expert Portal
• Accelerated test case creation

• Minimized risk by built-in transparency about implementation progress

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Thank you
Contact information:

cloudalm@sap.com

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Capability Highlights and E2E Process Flow
 Implementation Capabilities in detail

Deployments to production in releases

Agile implementation
Project
in sprints Go Live

Manual
Rich Text based Testing
Project & Task Test Monitoring and
documentation
Orchestration Tracking Changes
Process Management Defect Change
Status & Approval* for deployment
Management Requirements Management Enablement planning
Document Refinement Test Integration of
Management Project Planning Planning test automation Change
Requirement Configuration*
Integration* providers documentation &
planning Task Distribution Extension Test
Workshops Preparation reporting
Task Templates Management*
Process Scoping Traceability &
Gantt Chart Integration Audit Trail
Process Management*
Landscape
Modelling
Requirements
Collection Documentation Deployment
SAP Activate Test Execution Orchestration
Roadmaps

Project
Execution
& Tracking
Project
Start

* planned This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.

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Highlights - Conduct requirement planning workshops
Custom Process Modeling with Solution Processes
Business Process Expert

Having trouble documenting

requirement planning workshop results?
Use Process Management in
SAP Cloud ALM:

 Define your scope of business

processes
 Create your own models, details can
be found here
 Discuss models with business process
experts and key users
 Document the findings as
requirements and notes

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Highlights - Agile Support
Project Lead

 To structure the project work in agile

way, the project lead defines project
Timeboxes
o Phase
o Sprint
o Milestone

 Create your own sprints and

milestones for later agile
development planning with user
stories and tasks
 For more detailed info regarding to
agile support, refer to here

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Highlights - Content-driven guided implementation
Consume tasks from SAP Activate roadmap Project Lead

Unsure which project tasks need to be

completed by when? Select the General
Cloud - Implementation roadmap
template from the SAP Activate
methodology during the project setup.
This converts the roadmap instructions
into actionable and trackable tasks.

 Project team can review and adjust these

roadmap tasks and assign them to the
team member.

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Highlights - Upload Predefined Tasks
Project Lead

As an experienced project lead, you

may have your own predefined tasks
maintained in excel or reused tasks
from other projects or a third-party
system. You can upload them into
Cloud ALM as the project baseline

 Upload and update your own task

list via Excel: details can be found
here

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Highlights – Visualize and plan project tasks using Cards View
Project Lead
Consulting Expert
 Tasks, User Stories and Sub-Tasks
can be displayed in a Kanban like
view

 Each card shows the task ID,

priority, planned completion date,
and the responsible person

 Drag and drop the task card to

update the status

 Create items directly in the card

view

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Highlights - Test Automation
Integrate with Tricentis Test Automation for SAP Test Lead
Test Expert

Navigate seamlessly between SAP Cloud

ALM and Tricentis Test Automation, adjust
the automated test cases, release them for
testing, execute them directly from SAP
Cloud ALM and open execution log

 Test automation support of all browser-

based SAP products and applications

 Test automation support of SAP GUI

based applications

 Test automation support for SAP APIs*

 Test Data Management*

 Details can be found here

* planned functionality

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Highlights - Change Enablement and Deployment Planning
Release and
Deployment Lead

Feature is the entity for change

documentation and deployment
orchestration

 Easily create manual references of

transports that can't be managed
from a deployment perspective by
SAP Cloud ALM

 Traceability ensured via the history of

a feature

 Assign features to release for

deployment planning and tracking

 For more detailed info regarding to

feature delivery, refer to Help Portal

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Highlights - Project tracking in Analytics
Project Lead

Project Progress Reporting Task Distribution

Project leads can review the overall progress of the project in terms Project leads need to constantly keep track of task statues
of the task completion percentage. This report outlines planned, distributed to team members. They can get an increased visibility
completed and remaining tasks as well as phase and sprints wise and comparative view of status of tasks that are assigned to
distribution. different scopes, teams, assignees and workstreams.

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Highlights - Requirement tracking in Analytics
Business Process Expert

Requirement Traceability Requirement Distribution

Business experts can have a list view of the status of requirements Business experts need to constantly keep track requirement status
for a specific project, together with the status of the related entities distributed to team members, he can get an increased visibility and
for each requirement. he can have a brief but comprehensive
comparative view of requirement status that are assigned to
understanding about how the processes for each requirement are
going on and where the bottlenecks are. He can change the different scopes, teams, responsible persons, and workstreams.
requirement status from ‘In Realization’ to ‘In Testing’ when all
related user stories and project tasks are done.
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Highlights - Test management in Analytics Test Lead
Testers

Test Execution Analysis Defect Reporting

Test leads can have a test case status list view for a specific Test leads can monitor and analyze overall trends for defects based
project and analyze the test execution progress over a self- on the provided filter criteria.
defined time period.

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 Highlights – Cross Project Analysis Release and
Deployment Lead

Releases and Timelines Projects Readiness

Release and deployment leads can monitor timelines across Release and deployment leads can monitor the releases and
projects. This application supports cross project planning, showing projects readiness based on the progress of tasks, user stories,
the releases, the project timeboxes (phases, sprints, milestones) features, test executions, etc.
and software upgrades from SAP.

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End-to-End Process Flow
Discover Prepare Explore Realize Deploy Run

Sprint 1 Sprint 1 Sprint 1 Sprint 2 Sprint 3

Project Progress Reporting

Onboard Manage
Project Lead Set Up Plan Releases Complete Task Distribution
Team Project
Project & Timeboxes Project Tasks Task Trend Analysis
Members Tasks

Select Requirement Solution Process Traceability

Business Process Process
Create Approve Create Test
Ready for
Confirm
Requirement Traceability
Expert Requirements Requirements Cases Requirement
Scope Test Requirement Distribution

Release and Create Cross-Project Analysis

Create Handover to Handover to
Transport
Deployment Lead Features
references
Test Production Feature Traceability

Process & User Story Traceability

Create & Plan Process
Consulting Expert User Stories
Complete
Defects Burn Up Chart
User Stories Defect Reporting

Test Lead Manage Test Execute Test Execution Analysis

Testers Plan Test Cases Defect Reporting

Analytics and Traceability

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