Overview

What is a Task ?

Anything that needs to be done is a Task. A task contains set of instructions and procedures to perform various activities in a Project. A task denotes progress in a Project. The idea is simple, to complete a Project, you need to complete all the tasks in a Project. To understand what is a Project in SAP Cloud ALM you can visit this link.

Tasks can come from multiple sources, as an example tasks can come from Activate methodology giving you a jumpstart or they can be created manually to help you plan your work. Please read the sections below to understand different task sources.

SAP Cloud ALM Setup Tasks

When you login for the first time and setup(opens in new tab) the Project the system comes pre loaded with initial setup tasks that help you get started

You can consider them as foundation or bootstrap tasks. As an example the first task to setup a Project advises you to select a Project Template provided by SAP Activate methodology.

Template Tasks provided by SAP Activate methodology

As part of your Project setup , you select a Project Template

Selection of a Project Template triggers a generation of multiple tasks in your Project. You can access these tasks by navigating to the Task List.

Tasks created from Requirements

As you proceed in your Fit-to-standard workshops , you collect various requirements which can be found in your requirements tile in Fiori launchpad

After you collect Requirements, you can generate tasks from those Requirements to track them to completion. Currently one Requirement can have only one task generated from it.

Tasks created manually

You can always visit the task list and click on create button to trigger creation of a task

Filtering of Tasks by Source

You can navigate into the task list and use the Source attribute to easily filter tasks for a specific source.

Please note that currently SAP Cloud ALM setup tasks and tasks provided by SAP Activate methodology are combined in Template tasks

Mass Upload of Tasks

You can download the existing manual tasks as a template and upload the edited file to perform a mass upload of tasks

A task has following attributes

Short text
Long text
Due Date
Status
Workstream assignment
Deliverable assignment
Phase assignment
Assigned Person
Assigned role
Relations to Predecessor or successor tasks
Relations to Requirements( if created via Requirement)