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New capabilities in Requirement Management in SAP Cloud ALM
In this Blog post , I would like to explain
- Changes you can expect in Requirement Management
- New Capabilities in Requirement Management
What changes can you expect in Requirements
We have upgraded the capabilities for Requirements so when you login to SAP cloud ALM , you will find
UI Changes
- When you create a Requirement from a process , it does not open a third column , but a full screen so that you have more space to enter Text
- The Requirement Header has changed as now there are more fields
- Scope is not a mandatory field as you may want to save the Requirements first and add the scope information later
- The status changes do not appear as workflow but as flexible drop downs. This is to ensure you can easily go back to previous states if required
Changes in Approval process
- Approval of Requirement is not limited to Project leads, this is done as many times Requirements need approval from LOB heads , architects or other stakeholders
- Approval does not set the status to in Realization. This is because the actual work may start even before the approval or at a later time after approval
New Capabilities in Requirement Management
Requirement management gets multiple new innovations
Ability to create views
You can create and save your search criteria as views and even set your view as Default. A view can save a search criteria , filter criteria and also the columns in the result list
Ability to Mass Upload
You can use the Excel Template to Mass upload Requirements
View Requirements in Gantt view
you can view Requirements in Gantt view
Assign persons, roles, teams to Requirements
Approval shows in new column which is filterable
Requirements get a Planned start date
the difference between start date and due date appears as a duration in Gantt chart
Ability to see Requirement Hierarchy in one view
You can now see Requirements, user stories and tasks in one view by changing the Type column
You can copy Requirements
You can enter comments
Next steps
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Hi Jagmohan
Thanks for the update.
What I'm not seeing or understanding is, how do we manage WRICEF requirements?
I don't see any options to add/change any of the dropdowns for Workstream or others, that I can link a specific requirement to a Report, Or integration, Workflow etc. Or maybe I just don't know where to do it?
Then in a Google search, I found this blog on a recent update to Focus Build, and they have recently added a WRICEF sub-category to a Refurement. A WRIFEC is a key component of any SAP project, so I'm a bit surprised it was not there from the start.
Could you provide any guidance on how we should deal with this?
https://blogs.sap.com/2021/08/13/requirement-management-improvements-in-focused-build-sp08/
Regards
Grant
We released functionality to create custom tags now. Please try it and you can create custom tags for WRICEF
Works well, thanks.
Hi
we are working on a custom tag concept. Please wait to see if that resolves the issue
Regards
Jag
Hi Jag
Thanks for the response.
An indication when this may become a live enhancement, and I don't see any reference to it on the product Roadmap?
Regards
Grant
We released functionality to create custom tags now. Please try it
Regards
Jag
Works well, thanks for the update.
Hello Jagmohan
I'd like to group requirements but cannot see how to set a group and assign a requirement to a group
I can see an option to filter by group but only seems to result in one group of (Not Assigned). .... logical if none assigned.
I assumed group must be an attribute of another object but could not see it defined or used anywhere.
As an alternative I looked to use tags but could not see where a tag could be assigned to a requirement either.
Any suggestions for grouping requirements would be appreciated.
Regards
Antony
We released functionality to create custom tags now. Please try it
Regards
Jag
Hello Jagmohan,
is there an option to send an email to a team member when I assign him a task (requirement)?
regards
Tatiana