openSAP: Agile Project Delivery with Focused Build for SAP Solution Manager
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Course Summary (from openSAP)
This course will give you an introduction to the basic processes and functionalities of Focused Build for SAP Solution Manager, an add-on solution that supports SAP implementation projects such as those around SAP S/4HANA. The course will enable project teams to use the basic functionalities of Focused Build through the whole project lifecycle.
SAP Solution Manager is designed to support the entire lifecycle of SAP solutions and is available to every customer with an SAP maintenance contract. SAP Solution Manager offers several tools to support individual project tasks, such as business process documentation, test management, and software deployment. As of version 7.2, it also offers the Focused Build solution, which enables a preconfigured requirement-to-deploy process within SAP Solution Manager. It includes business demand and requirements management, integrated risk management, and collaboration features that help business and IT work more closely together to manage global development teams. Focused Build follows an agile implementation concept and is very aligned with the SAP Activate methodology.
Using a tool with guided project procedures decreases the risk of deployment failures, enables a real-time status view of all project activities, and helps you keep a centralized source of truth for business processes and documentation.
Characteristics of the course
This is a self paced 18 hours course divided in 6 units.
The target audience is anyone who will use Focused Build as an implementation tool, consultants, project managers, agile methodologists and tool coaches.
To fully understand the material, participants should have a basic understanding of SAP Activate, or the activities in an SAP implementation project.
What is this about ?
The course is about Solution Manager Focused Build, an add-on solution that supports SAP implementation projects
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Key Learnings and content structure
In the first week of this course, you will get an introduction to Focused Build and be guided through all the tasks of a project manager.
Week 2 is about the Explore phase and you’ll learn about solution documentation and how to use this in a fit-to-standard workshop (Process Expert/Analyst).
Week 3 will focus on the core of Focused Build, including requirements, work packages, work items, and the integration of SAP Readiness Check (Architect/Developer).
In Week 4, you’ll learn about the functionalities that Focused Build provides for test management and how to execute tests.
Week 5 is all about release management. In this week, you’ll learn how to manage your releases and how to deploy your software on different system landscapes.
Week 6, which is the last week of this course, will focus on the enablement of Focused Build coaches and consultants, and you’ll learn how to set up SAP Solution Manager.
Part 1: Project Preparation and Management
Unit 1: Introduction to Focused Build for SAP Solution Manager
Unit 2: Focused Build Methodology
Unit 3: Project Management in Focused Build
Unit 4: Working with Milestones and Q-Gates
Unit 5: Managing Risks, Issues, and Tasks
Unit 6: Solution Readiness Dashboard – Part I
Unit 7: Exercises and System Access
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Part 2: Explore Phase (Process Expert/Analyst)
Unit 1: Introducing Solution Documentation
Unit 2: Using Best Practice Content from SAP Activate
Unit 3: Business Process Modeling
Unit 4: Recording Requirements
Unit 5: Managing Requirements Backlog
Unit 6: Working with Scope (new)
Unit 7: Process Reporting (new)
Part 3: Realization (Architect/Developer)
Unit 1: Building Work Packages
Unit 2: Project Documentation
Unit 3: Scoping Work Items
Unit 4: Development and Configurations
Unit 5: Unit Testing
Unit 6: Solution Readiness Dashboard – Part II
Unit 7: Conversion (new)
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Part 4: Test Management
Unit 1: Introduction to Test Management (update)
Unit 2: Test Preparation
Unit 3: Test Planning (update)
Unit 4: Test Execution (update)
Unit 5: Test Analytics
Unit 6: Test Optimization
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What you will learn and will be tested on: How to use Focused Build for S/4HANA testing.
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Part 5: Release Management
Unit 1: Change Logistics
Unit 2: Software Deployment
Unit 3: Release Management
Unit 4: Defect Correction (update)
Unit 5: Release Dashboard
Unit 6: Handover to Operations (update)
Part 6: Focused Build Enablement
Unit 1: Info Sources & Infrastructure (update)
Unit 2: Setup and Adjustments (update)
Unit 3: Project Preparation (update)
Unit 4: SAP Content Import
Unit 5: Third Party Integrations (update)r
Final Exam
The final exam is a 120 minutes test. It is recommended that you make sure to understand the material and the answers to all self-tests before attemting the exam.
Info Sources
Learning Material
Focused Build Introduction ▪ Overview ▪ How to get started ▪ Release notes ▪ White paper
Functional & conceptual overviews ▪ SAP S/4HANA Conversion Project Support ▪ Deployment and Release ▪ Project Management ▪ Process Management
Role-based usage training material ▪ Role-specific training curriculum ▪ Cloud trial system ▪ Role-specific demos in media center
Communities
Getting Started
Media Center - Demo or training material for functionalities and roles
Internet Demo System - Preconfigured public demo system (regularly refreshed)
Private Cloud System - Preconfigured private demo system to jump start projects
