SAP Cloud ALM - Application Lifecycle Management

Optimize your ALM practices with SAP Cloud ALM! Get started by deploying SAP Cloud ALM, defining your project scope, and exploring the tools you'll use. Walk through process management, requirements management, and fit-to-standard workshops. Create and execute tests and then deploy your project, focusing on release and change management features. Follow a continuous example throughout this guide to ensure your SAP Cloud ALM projects run smoothly!

Highlights include:
1) Deployment
2) SAP Activate
3) Agile methodology
4) Project scope
5) Process management
6) Requirements management
7) Test management
8) Change enablement
9) Operations
10) Extensions
11) Integration

List of contents

... Preface ... 19

... Goal of This Book ... 19

... Structure of This Book ... 19

... Acknowledgments ... 23

1 ... Introduction to SAP Cloud ALM and SAP Activate ... 25

1.1 ... Introduction to SAP Cloud ALM ... 26

1.2 ... SAP Cloud ALM Areas ... 31

1.3 ... SAP Activate ... 35

1.4 ... Our Practical Example ... 44

1.5 ... Summary ... 46

PART I ... Prepare ... 47

2 ... Provisioning of the SAP Cloud ALM Tenant ... 49

2.1 ... Prerequisites ... 50

2.2 ... Provisioning Process ... 52

2.3 ... Further Preparation Steps ... 55

2.4 ... Additional Costs ... 60

2.5 ... Summary ... 61

3 ... Management of the Project Landscape ... 63

3.1 ... Project Landscape Management ... 64

3.2 ... Managed Landscape Groups ... 67

3.3 ... Manageable Information ... 76

3.4 ... Service Key Enabling and Maintenance ... 82

3.5 ... Scenario with Multiple SAP Customer Numbers ... 85

3.6 ... Summary ... 86

4 ... Transport Tools of SAP Cloud ALM ... 87

4.1 ... SAP Cloud Transport Management ... 89

4.2 ... Change and Transport System ... 98

4.3 ... Adaptation Transport Organizer ... 105

4.4 ... Summary ... 107

5 ... Project Approach with Agile Methodology ... 109

5.1 ... Basics of Agile Methodology with Scrum ... 111

5.2 ... Support for Scrum in SAP Cloud ALM ... 118

5.3 ... Project Approaches for SAP Implementation Projects ... 127

5.4 ... Specifications and Conventions for the Project Setup ... 130

5.5 ... Summary ... 141

6 ... Project Setup ... 143

6.1 ... General Information ... 144

6.2 ... Timeboxes ... 147

6.3 ... Teams ... 156

6.4 ... Scopes ... 160

6.5 ... Deployment Landscape and Deployment Plan ... 161

6.6 ... Tag Management ... 162

6.7 ... Summary ... 167

7 ... Define Project Scope ... 169

7.1 ... Create Scope ... 171

7.2 ... Preparation for a Fit-to-Standard Workshop ... 176

7.3 ... Define Tasks ... 181

7.4 ... Define Solution Process ... 183

7.5 ... Tools for Scope Definition of the Project ... 188

7.6 ... Summary ... 201

8 ... User Management and Project Reporting ... 203

8.1 ... Project Onboarding ... 204

8.2 ... Project Progress and Project Reporting ... 229

8.3 ... Summary ... 239

PART II ... Explore ... 241

9 ... Process and Document Management ... 243

9.1 ... Processes in SAP Cloud ALM ... 245

9.2 ... Documents ... 246

9.3 ... Solution Value Flow ... 251

9.4 ... Solution Process Flow ... 252

9.5 ... Process Authoring ... 257

9.6 ... Process Hierarchy ... 260

9.7 ... Outlook on the Integration with SAP Signavio ... 266

9.8 ... Summary ... 267

10 ... Requirements Management ... 269

10.1 ... Overview of Requirements ... 270

10.2 ... Creation of Requirements ... 273

10.3 ... Specification of Requirements ... 278

10.4 ... Handover of Requirements for Implementation ... 284

10.5 ... Enrichment of Requirements during Implementation ... 289

10.6 ... Summary ... 291

11 ... Fit-to-Standard and Fit-Gap Workshops ... 293

11.1 ... Differences Between Fit-to-Standard and Fit-Gap Workshops ... 294

11.2 ... Fit-to-Standard Workshops ... 296

11.3 ... Fit-Gap Workshops and Rollouts ... 303

11.4 ... Summary ... 305

12 ... Test Management ... 307

12.1 ... Test Management in SAP Cloud ALM ... 308

12.2 ... Planning the Test Preparation ... 310

12.3 ... Test Automation in SAP Cloud ALM ... 313

12.4 ... Summary ... 319

PART III ... Realize ... 321

13 ... Agile Implementation of User Stories ... 323

13.1 ... Creation of Sprints ... 324

13.2 ... From the Requirements Backlog to the Product Backlog ... 328

13.3 ... Overview of User Stories ... 330

13.4 ... Sprint Planning ... 338

13.5 ... Processing User Stories during Sprint Execution ... 346

13.6 ... Daily Scrum: Daily Meetings ... 351

13.7 ... Sprint Review Meeting ... 355

13.8 ... Sprint Retrospective ... 357

13.9 ... Summary ... 358

14 ... Test Preparation ... 359

14.1 ... Solution Walkthrough and Test Cycles ... 360

14.2 ... Test Case Creation ... 361

14.3 ... Test Case Assignment to User Story and Requirement ... 372

14.4 ... Test Plan ... 374

14.5 ... Summary ... 379

15 ... Test Execution ... 381

15.1 ... Run Test Cycle ... 382

15.2 ... Defect Management ... 389

15.3 ... Test Progress and Defect Monitoring ... 397

15.4 ... Documentation of Results and Handover for Deployment ... 405

15.5 ... Summary ... 405

PART IV ... Deploy ... 407

16 ... Change Enablement ... 409

16.1 ... Record, Manage, Control, and Deploy Changes ... 410

16.2 ... Release Management in Theory ... 411

16.3 ... Importance of Release Management in Software Development ... 411

16.4 ... Release Management with SAP Cloud ALM ... 412

16.5 ... Release Management in Hybrid System Landscapes ... 416

16.6 ... Release Management in Cloud System Landscapes ... 432

16.7 ... Corrections during Operation ... 435

16.8 ... Summary ... 435

17 ... Deployment with SAP Cloud ALM ... 437

17.1 ... Technical Preparations ... 438

17.2 ... Features Overview ... 443

17.3 ... Change Control with the Help of Features ... 451

17.4 ... Mass Deployment of Features into Production ... 463

17.5 ... Transport Protocols ... 464

17.6 ... Milestone for Handover to Operations ... 465

17.7 ... Summary ... 468

PART V ... Operate ... 469

18 ... Overview of SAP Cloud ALM for Operations ... 471

18.1 ... Business Service Management ... 472

18.2 ... Monitoring and Event Management ... 473

18.3 ... Summary ... 497

19 ... Implementation ... 499

19.1 ... Business Service Management ... 500

19.2 ... Business Process Monitoring ... 507

19.3 ... Integration and Exception Monitoring ... 514

19.4 ... Real User Monitoring ... 527

19.5 ... Synthetic User Monitoring ... 531

19.6 ... Job and Automation Monitoring ... 540

19.7 ... Health Monitoring ... 546

19.8 ... Email Notifications and Ticket Creation ... 555

19.9 ... Notes for the Operating Phase ... 559

19.10 ... Summary ... 563

PART VI ... Extend and Integrate ... 565

20 ... Extension Basics ... 567

20.1 ... Extension Types ... 567

20.2 ... Introduction to SAP Business Accelerator Hub ... 570

20.3 ... SAP Integration Suite ... 579

20.4 ... External API Management ... 584

20.5 ... Basic Use of APIs ... 592

20.6 ... Best Practices ... 601

20.7 ... Summary ... 605

21 ... Overview of APIs ... 607

21.1 ... APIs in the Implementation Area: Build ... 609

21.2 ... APIs in the Operation Area: Run ... 621

21.3 ... Summary ... 627

22 ... Practical Examples ... 629

22.1 ... Creating GitHub Issues for Alarms in Integration Monitoring ... 629

22.2 ... Integration of Microsoft To Do ... 642

22.3 ... Summary ... 663

... The Authors ... 665

... Index ... 669

About the author

Matthias Friedrich holds a degree in Information Management and started working for SAP SI AG in Dresden in 1998. Initially, he worked in the Global Support Center Austria in the areas of user administration and R/3 system security. He then went on to specialize in the Service Desk in SAP Solution Manager and was heavily involved in the creation of a service desk for application management. Change request management is another focus of Matthias’ work. Matthias is now with Bautzen IT.Lars Teuber holds a degree in Information Management and worked at SAP SI AG in Dresden, Germany, from 2003 to 2007. While working on projects for national and international customers, he gained experience in system monitoring and performance reporting. Since 2008, he has worked at BIT Consulting GmbH in Dresden, Germany, where he has been able to expand his knowledge of SAP Solution Manager in SAP Solution Manager development projects. He works in system monitoring, performance analysis, and implementation of SAP Solution Manager in projects with regard to both design and implementation.

Summary

Optimize your ALM practices with SAP Cloud ALM! Get started by deploying SAP Cloud ALM, defining your project scope, and exploring the tools you’ll use. Walk through process management, requirements management, and fit-to-standard workshops. Create and execute tests and then deploy your project, focusing on release and change management features. Follow a continuous example throughout this guide to ensure your SAP Cloud ALM projects run smoothly!

Highlights include:
1) Deployment
2) SAP Activate
3) Agile methodology
4) Project scope
5) Process management
6) Requirements management
7) Test management
8) Change enablement
9) Operations
10) Extensions
11) Integration

Product details

• Authors: Matthias Friedrich, Fred Kindler, Marcel Kirsten, Daniel Kloppich, Mathias List, Bert Lorenz, Lars Teuber
• Publisher: Rheinwerk Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2024
• EAN: 9781493225958
• ISBN: 978-1-4932-2595-8
• No. of pages: 675
• Series: SAP PRESS Englisch
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; SAP Solution Manager, SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Cloud Application Lifecycle Management