Week 1: Project Preparation and Management

Unit 1: Introduction to Focused Build for

SAP Solution Manager
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Course structure

Course target Week 1 Project Preparation and Management

▪ Enable a project team of an SAP S/4HANA
implementation project to use the Focused Build Week 2 Explore Phase (Process Expert/Analyst)
methodology with SAP Solution Manager
6 Weeks Week 3 Realization (Architect/Developer)

▪ 5-7 video units and self-tests

Week 4 Test Management
▪ 1 weekly assignment
▪ Online discussion forum (collaborate, ask questions) Week 5 Release Management

▪ Demos available for hands-on exercises

Week 6 Focused Build Enablement
▪ ~4-5 hours of effort each week
Week 7 Final exam

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Which project roles are covered in this course?

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6

Project Manager Solution Architect Release Manager

/ Developer
Business Process Test Focused Build
Expert / Analyst Management Consultant
Team

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Focused Build in a nutshell

Focused Build for SAP Solution Manager 7.2 as the tool, together with SAP Activate as the
methodology, perfectly support you in innovation projects such as SAP S/4HANA
implementations.

Focused Build… SAP DBS Model Company SAP Activate

▪ Is an add-on solution for SAP Solution Manager 7.2

containing preconfigurations for agile use in
projects.
▪ Enables you to jump-start SAP Solution Manager LoB or industry solution Methodology and best practices
for your innovation project.
▪ Consumes best practice content and provides
workflow-supported methodology for all project
phases and project transparency on all activities.
▪ Includes additional UIs, features, and dashboards SAP´s smart delivery platform to
manage implementations end-to-end
on top of standard SAP Solution Manager.
with Focused Build

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Requirement-to-deploy in SAP Solution Manager

For SAP and non-SAP Integrated capabilities

On-premise, cloud, hybrid All under one roof

Plan & Control Design & Build Test Deploy

✓ Build project management ✓ Graphical modeling ✓ Manual tests ✓ Transport control
✓ Financial project management ✓ Process management ✓ Automated tests for SAP ✓ Change traceability
✓ Effort planning & time recording ✓ As-is, reference, and to-be landscapes ✓ Test automation framework ✓ Deployment management
✓ Resource management ✓ Connection to runtime and design time ✓ Test data ✓ Release planning
✓ Work breakdown structure ✓ Requirements management ✓ Change impact analysis ✓ Retrofit
✓ Project reporting ✓ Solution Readiness Dashboard ✓ Test planning ✓ Quality gate management
✓ Test analytics ✓ Change analytics & diagnostics

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Three different change paces in requirement-to-deploy

Portfolio / Programm Mgmt

Innovate
Fix Trigger Transformation projects,
Business disruption or new solutions
Trigger
standard change Scope Large
Scope Small Fix Process Impact Significant
Process Impact None Approval Pre-approved
Approval Individual
Unbundled on request or
Innovate Deployment Bundled with release
Deployment Time to Delivery 3-12 months
bundled with release
Time to Delivery 1 day – 1 week

accelerated by
Enhance Enhance
Trigger Improvement request
Scope Medium
Process Impact Minimal
Approval Individual
Deployment Bundled with release
Time to Delivery 1 month Focused Build
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What is included in Focused Build?

Focused Build Add-On

Role-Based / Training Units

Standalone 3rd Party Integration

Dashboards UI5 Applications
Enhancements (Scrum Tools)

Turnkey Process Configuration and Integration

Prepare Explore Realize Deploy Run

SAP Solution Manager 7.2

Portfolio &
Process Requirements Change Control Release Test
Project
Management Management Management Management Suite
Management

: Configurable baseline engines of SAP Solution Manager : Preconfigured and ready-to-use Focused Build add-ons
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What are challenges in the program management of SAP S/4HANA projects?

The demand to realize processes that fulfill

all business process requirements in time and budget

Define the target business processes based on SAP’s best practice

content instead of a process discussion from scratch.

Immediately available tool to quickly enable the project team with

standardized and agile processes on a high degree of usability

Transparency on current project status to react early on

any exception, and ability to manage distributed project teams

Efficient processes in project activities, which

reduces efforts and avoids data disruption
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Focused Build process flow – Requirements-to-deploy

Create project ▪ Manage waves and sprints Manage Q-Gate Hand over ▪ Project plan
PMO ▪ Track project readiness, issues, and risks deliverables, release to
plan ▪ Manage scope change sign-off customer ▪ Release, waves, and sprints

Fit / Gap ▪ Process model

Business WS for ▪ Application landscape
Process Owner requirements ▪ Requirements and gaps

Solution Create work Assign work Sprint Manage

▪ Functional specification
items & build ▪ Config. guide, test cases
Architect package teams show & tell
▪ System landscape

Build Team Develop, Document Release work Defect ▪ Tech. design paper
(Developer, configure, unit work item &
test progress item correction ▪ Dev. objects in transports
Consultant)

Test Plan & Manage ▪ Test request

execute SFT,
Manager FIT, UAT, RT defects ▪ Test plan

Release Build, test and Manage

deploy release hypercare ▪ Release
Manager

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Focused Build – Architecture overview and integration model
Release Management
Change Control Landscape Release Number and Cycle

Process Management Requirements / Work Packages / Work Items Project Management

Wave1

Process and Application

Landscape Sprint 1..n
Requirements Work Packages

Design Documents Task 1..n

Work Items
Branches
Milestone
Test Suite
Q-Gate
Test Cases Test Plan Test Package

Solution Readiness Dashboard

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When should Focused Build be considered?

✓ If it´s a business process-driven project, e.g. based on Model Company

or SAP Best Practice content or customer-given process structure
✓ If there are many (>100) WRICEFs or gaps expected which have to be
realized by development and consulting teams
✓ If the project team is distributed over several locations or remote
delivery is expected
✓ If a Value Assurance package is involved, as Focused Build services
could be involved in the deliverables
✓ If the PMO wants to use a project tool which supports standardized
activities in the project, starting from target business process modeling,
requirement backlog, development, project documentation, testing
✓ If there is a SAP Solution Manager in use or planned to be used in the
operation after Go-Live
✓ If the project approach wants to follow basic agile principles or
SAP Activate methodology
✓ If the project starts soon and there is a need for a holistic
implementation tool asap
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