Plan Internal Projects
The figure displays the app Plan Internal Projects (F1656).
Purpose
Key Features
Managing Work Packages and Resources
- You use work packages to plan and schedule high level project activities, such as:
- Work package dates and work items.
- Required project roles and effort, the organization from which you want to staff a role, and whether the role is billable or not. If required, you can also specify up to five skills for each role. However, these skills are for information only and not directly used to search for resources.
- Expenses
- For each role, you can search for resources and view details such as:
- Contact details of an employee, work location, skills, and experience in previous projects.
- Employee availability for the duration of the work package.
- Employees whose employment ends before the end date of the work package.
- Employee availability per month (in hours or days), for the calendar year.
Note
Availability is calculated based on the working hours per week defined in the business partner's master data, and staffing in other projects. If resource management has been activated, the availability is based on the daily working hours maintained for the business partner. - You can view and manually redistribute effort across the periods of the work package.
Note
If you change the dates (month) of a work package, the project dates are also adjusted. Besides, you must also choose how the system redistributes planned efforts. The following options are available:
- Retain Total Efforts: The system redistributes equally, the total planned effort for the roles or resources in the work package.
- Retain Efforts for Common Periods: The system retains only the efforts in periods that are common between the old and new work package dates, and distributes the efforts equally between the new periods of the work package.
- You can assign resources to project roles, based on the relevance of their skills and their availability. You can also use work items to assign responsibilities to assigned resources.
- You can confirm the staffing of resources when the project stage is set to In Execution. This confirmation results in staffing the resource as per their availability for the work package.
Note
If resource management has been activated, then assignments made by a resource manager are stored as staffing confirmations. - You can manage documents for work packages.
- You can delete a work package, but only if there are no actual time or expense postings.
Cost Calculation
Additional Features with Resource Management
Compare and Update Project Versions
App Extensibility: Plan Internal Projects
UI Element | Business Context |
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Information form (at header level) | Engagement Project |
Additional information (at the work package level) | Work Package |
You can implement logic for the following Business Add Ins (BAdIs):
Business Add Ins (BAdIs)
BAdl | Business Context |
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Generate Project IDs | Engagement Project |
Send E mail | Engagement Project |
Check Authorization to Edit Project | Engagement Project |
Check Authorization to Change Project Stage | Engagement Project |