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This page will provide information on best practices to be followed for a role, user, and team assignment in SAP Cloud ALM.
There are three levels of duties that you can manage in a single project: Person, Role and Team.
As we learned above, you, as a Project Lead, can assign different Person, Role and Team to each task to manage your project efficiently. This could be done in multiple ways depending on your specific strategy, but you can also think about some fundamental questions as follows.
Keeping these questions in your mind, let us go over some specific user scenarios to give you some ideas to utilize this function.
First, suppose that you are a project lead of one small development project. You know every single member of the project and what they are doing. In this case, you don't need many different teams. You can simply have one PMO team and include all roles and members in this team. Furthermore, it would be easy to assign a certain task to a certain individual.
In the other scenario, let's say that you are a project lead of a very big scale project. You can create different teams and roles according to their functions and assign them at a rather high level instead of an individual level. For example, you can assign a set of tasks to a Development Team and allocate to each Role, without assigning a specific person.
You can also assign either a Team or a Role. In the case below, for example, any Analytics Expert in the project can work on the task. In this way, the team members can work on the task more autonomically depending on their workload and goal.
Here, let us see step by step how to assign and re-assign the Team, Role and Person to each task.
Assigning a team to a certain task is simply done by clicking the drop-down menu of Team column in the Task List view. It can also be done in a detail view of each task.
Assigning a project role can be done in the exact same way as we did for the team above: Doing it from the task list page or doing it from the detail page of each task.
Assigning a specific person to a task can also be done in the same way we have learned so far. Different from the team and role that you can only choose from the closed list (default or custom), you can assign any person in your organization by searching function as below.
You can always easily re-assign Team, Role and Person which have been already assigned. You can basically repeat what you have done before. However, there are some rules for re-assignment that would be useful for you to be aware of.
Let's say you have a project and set the Teams, Roles, and Assignees as you can see below from the table. You are Agatha, a Project Lead.
Team | Assigned Role | Assignee |
---|---|---|
PMO team | Project Lead | Agatha |
Business Process Expert | Rachel | |
Red team | Business Process Expert | Rachel |
Blue team | Analytics Expert | Bob |
And your current assignment status for three tasks is as follows. Please keep in mind that all changes will be made from this assignment status.
You can basically re-assign the Assignee to any other person, and the previous assignment of Team and Role remain same as before. As you can see below, when you change “Analytics Expert” from Bob to you (Agatha), the assignment of Team and Role remain same.
However, when you re-assign the Role, the Team assignment will be cleared if the new Role is not included in the Team. Now, you have re-assigned the Role from “Business Process Expert” to “Project Lead”. Because the Role “Project Lead” is not included in the “Red team”, the Team assignment is cleared.
Lastly, when you change the Team, the previous assignment to Role and Assignee will be cleared if they are not in the new Team. As the picture below shows, you've changed the Team from “PMO team” to “Red team”. Then, the previous assignment of Role and Assignee is all cleared, since the Role “Project Lead” and the Person “Agatha Bauer” do not belong to “Red team”.
Similarly, let's see what happen when you re-assign all of the tasks to “PMO team”. Then, the second task assigned to “Business Process Expert” and Rachel remains same, because both the Role and the Person belong to PMO team. However, the Assignee is cleared for the third task, since Bob does not belong to PMO team.