SAP Cloud ALM Process Management capability offers:
- Process Scoping and Fit-to-Standard Execution
- Conduct Fit-to-Standard Workshops.
- Capture Requirements.
- Manage Solution Processes Status.
- SAP Standard Content Life cycle
- Visualization and use of predefined SAP Best Practice and Reference content.
- Manage upgrade and versions.
- Organize Solution Process into Scopes and support hybrid scenarios.
- Pull Solution Processes into Implementation Projects.
- Customer Content Authoring and Modeling
- Authoring of custom Solution Processes to extend the SAP Practices with custom Practices.
- Modeling of Solution Value Flows and BPMN Diagrams.
Process Content
Process Content provides rich implementation relevant content to support and accelerate fit-to-standard workshops.
Note
Process Scope + Requirements = Project ScopeRequirements
- Capture Requirements to document change needs, desires, functional, or non functional requirements.
- Requirements can be split into multiple more granular User Stories:
- User Stories can be assigned to different sprints and captured in different Features.
- Features can be delivered in different Releases.
A Scope is a container for solution processes, which is managed collectively.
During scoping, you select Solution Scenarios and add solution processes to your scope.
You should combine solution processes into the same scope if:
- The same application system landscape is used, for example, for sites with own tenants/systems, shared services tenants/systems.
- The solution processes require an aligned upgrade cycle, for example, heavily dependent tenants/systems that are upgraded as a whole.
- Serve the same functional purpose, for example, solution processes per site, solution processes for shared services such as finance consolidation or HR shared services.
- Copy diagram into a custom process
- Standard diagram copied into a new Custom Solution Process.
- Copy Solution Process Flow
- Copies all diagrams of a given flow into a new Solution Process.
Note
Localization, Descriptions, or Accelerators can be custom.
Import BPMN from Third-Party Solutions
Upload BPMN to a custom solution process and publish to use in your projects.
Export BPMN from SAP Cloud ALM
Download .bpmn files from SAP Cloud ALM to use in other Process Management applications.
- Requirement:
- Capture Requirements on Solution Process or Solution Activities.
- Personalized views and mass changes.
- Optional requirement approval procedure.
- User Story
- Agile planning, execution, and reporting.
- Sub-Task
- Optional detailed distribution of development tasks.
Note
Requirement: describes what functionality is required from a business point of view.
User Story: describes how functionality is realized by one dev team.
This figure illustrates the relationships between all SAP Cloud ALM entities during a requirement-driven implementation.
Process Hierarchy
The Process Hierarchy structures the customer’s business and divides a complex processes landscape into smaller better manageable parts.
It follows the from-abstract-to-concrete principle and provides information about the processes on different levels of granularity.
Solution Processes and many other SAP Cloud ALM entities can be referenced into the Process Hierarchy.
